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… line with the south wall of the lateral section of the building on the east side.
At about the middle of the room both as regards length and width, we uncovered a rectangular block slightly longer and broader than the stylobate of the south pillar. It is tempting to consider this single block, which is almost parallel to the first pillar, as the base of a second. If it was so the upper blocks were removed, possibly following the conflagration on floor V. [handwritten: x] However this block has x cuttings in its upper x in its upper surface near the narrow sides, the edges of which are equidistant from the walls of the room, and to the east the line of the block is continued by a course of boulders. It is possible that a threshold rested on the boulders and door posts in the cuttings, in which case the block would have carried the central pillar-like part of a transverse wall pierced by two doors. Further excavation may well throw light on the original arrangement at this point, but whatever the outcome of further work may be it is safe to conclude that some feature subdivided the central unit into a northern part (room XIV) and a southern /(room … continues
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