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in a fall, in the south end - To better establish the reality of the mud-brick walls surrounding this room, I have a trench dug N E W along the N wall
Margin right: cf p. 88/89.
1543Opposite the pierced stone 1542 in the wall parallel to the E, another stone, rectangular, pierced with a hole right through. It seems reused to line the base of the wall of brick, but it may also have been placed horizontally on the floor and been overturned at the time of the destruction of the house -
For these 2 pierced stones 1542 and 1543, two hypotheses seem to me possible = either counterweight of well with a beam, or else pivot socket or hinge. This 2 nd hypothesis would agree better with the shape of the stones, more or less rectangular and bearing on the
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