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… narrow doorway, 0.75 m. in width, which however was later widened. This was done at the time of floor V but following the rearrangement when partition walls on either side of the southernmost pillar (16) were built isolating this projecting portion of the central unit to form rooms IX and X. The newly widened doorway shows careless workmanship and the north doorjamb (the only one existing) was made of previously dressed blocks but now roughly chipped to fit their new purpose. We shall see that one of these blocks fell out at the time of the catastrophe on floor II together with the pisé superstructure and was found as it had fallen ( Pl. XIV. 8,9). The east wall of this part of the room (wall 12) bonds with wall 17 and forms with walls 18, 19 and 20 a continuous structure. The part enclosed by walls 17, 18 and 19 is the well area, which forms part of the eastern wing of the Main Building and will be described in due course. Here we may pass to wall 20 which is the east wall of the central unit which we are examining.
As already pointed out the upper dressed blocks of this wall have disappeared. We assume on good … continues
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain