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Saturday 15 October 1966Area of the Rampart. Work continues on the excavations in the two large double trenches oriented East-West, on either side of the W Gate of the town, with the 15 workmen (Pacomios included) plus one woman. The blocking architecture bordering the Street in its last state in Iron I, becomes clearer during the morning, on its two flanks. We begin to uncover jars or pithoi, buried, still in situ, in the rooms opening onto the street, to the north as well as the south. A hearth area appears also, at a depth of 0 m 75. All this is well dated by the pottery fragments of common type from the period of the "Granary style". At topographic point 1445 on the floor, it seems, at - 0 m 75, one discovers a solid iron sickle oxidised
Drawing: curved blade with stippled surface and cross-section
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain