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Handwritten: 11
façade, opens a door more than 3 m. wide, preceded by two orthostats perpendicular to the wall. A basin at the foot of the South orthostat may have served as a pivot socket.
The stratigraphy of the vestibule is very different according to whether one is in the South or the North. In the South mound, the following layers can be distinguished:
1.Surface layer, with mixed material, including Byzantine glass, Iron I pottery; its thickness increases from 25 to 75 cm from South to North.
2.Bed of sterile limestone, descending to 1 m. depth, except at the South end, where there is a pocket of brown earth, with Late Bronze III pottery, between 0.75 and 1.00, - and along the East wall, where the limestone is replaced by sterile clayey silt, which seems to have been deposited by stagnant water.
3.White floor, becoming in places a bed of sterile red clay, at the level of the threshold of the cella. 1.00 to 1.05.
4.Ashes with Late Bronze III sherds and a rectangular bone plaque. 1.05 to 1.10.
5.Very hard white floor, on which the excavation was stopped in this sector. 1.10 to 1.20.
In the North mound, the succession of strata is as follows:
1.Surface earth, with mixed material. 0 to 0.15;
2.White floor (Floor I): Early Iron Age. 0.15 to 0.20.
3.Brown earth, with polished green stone bochette (pt. 65). 0.20 to 0.50.
4.Ashes, with Late Bronze final pottery and several objects: bovid horn (pt. 9), fragment of carved ivory representing a wing and tail of a sphinx (pt. 11), large pithos crushed in place. 0.50 to 0.70.
5.Compact greenish earth, continuing the silt noted in the South mound and containing a bronze ring and a bronze earring. 0.70 to 1.00.
6.Series of successive floors (Floor II), corresponding to the upper floor noted in the South: a/ very hard white layer; b/ very hard yellow layer. 1.00 to 1.05.
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