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mique along the walls shows that the vessels were no doubt placed on wooden shelves (ashes) lining the room - The interruption of the sherd patches pottery (hatched patches on the plan p. 54) indicates probabl y the door onto the courtyard - The upper surface of this pottery layer dips towards the centre of the room, further evidence in favour of the shelves along the walls (0,20 m of dени vellation approx.) - Near wall E, one notices that there are 2 layers* of sherds, sepa rated by 10 cm of earth, brown then grey (cf photo by Mme Forrer) - The question arises whether this corresponds to 2 different periods. I do not think so, since the 2 layers seem to join further to the W, and, in the section at the edge of the trench to the E, one sees a vessel
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain