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{Saturday 11 November 1967Morning spent relieving the East trench by opening a relief trench in the north zone of the Rampart / West Gate area / West Gate, according to the programme drawn up the day before. This allows the stripping of the 1st floor, at -0m30 on average, of the long East trench, squares 4 E and 5 E, and the stratigraphic study of the house which yielded the inscribed roll and the cylinder: this work reveals the extreme complexity of the successive reworkings cessive, from Middle Bronze III to Iron I: One indeed reaches a brown layer rich in Middle Bronze III pottery, immediately west of the room with the cylinder, bounded by a foundation of small rubble, linked to the well or sump into which the water drained through u
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain