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has a different aspect. From the outset it appears to have been much thinner than wall 20 but its present appearance is due to the rebuilding after the conflagration on floor V. The lowest course of dressed blocks remains but the upper dressed blocks which rested on it have disappeared. Their place was taken by rubble or mudbrick, parts of which still exist. The part of the wall due west of the pillar dividing room XIII from room XIV is a large block 1.65 m. in length which rests on a lower block of wider dimensions leaving a margin all round. The upper block has a deep rabbet at its north end on the east side and another at the south end on the west side. There is also a step in the upper face at the south end. The meaning of these rabbets and of the step is not quite clear. This block seems to have formed the jamb of a doorway to the north of it opening into room XXVI, in which case the rabbet on this side may have received a vertical wooden doorjamb. The opposite rabbet and the step may have been cut for the binding of this block with the blocks to southward in the same wall, which however no more exist. /Between … continues
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain