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and the site as | a whole(probably Late Cyp. III II or his building XIV-XIIIe c.) and not XII-XIth as proposed by Dikaios now It is not a quest. of beeing so right now, it is necessary to be right in in 10 or 20 years from now. Please accept my advice: your stat. & chronol conclusions need care careful by reexaminat. after excavating through all th floors down to the rock (preserving half of them for future controle excavations please. Only when Dik. has your curator has published all sherds found in the undisturbed body of floor V and in the undisturbed levels below, can you he reach allow yourself an opin. a considered of that concerns the date of the construction and its of his Ashlar building and draw the safe historical conclusions. Unti this w In stead of working on the north wall I would have wellcomed that this research, so vital import. for the interpretat. of the the "temple" building (is is undertaken this year and I have asked you & your curator Dik to do it.
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