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The doorway leading from room XV to room XXVII was on the east, where we find rectangular blocks of stone forming the threshold.
The partition walls 25 and 27 were built of large solid dressed blocks which rest on a course of smaller blocks of wider dimensions leaving a margin on either side. In the case of wall 27 we have two large superimposed blocks the upper of which has been moved out of its place (Pl.XXIV.5). In one of my preliminary reports on the excavation I considered this displacement as due to the earthquake, which occured on floor II (1), but it may be equally attributable to some other cause. It might have been done at the time when other blocks were removed after being damaged in the conflagration on floor V. exposed possibly by stone looters after the abandonment of the site.
To complete this summary description of the walls of the east wing we may mention that in the case of wall 17 two of the thin blocks which formed twin slab construction in the upper part of the stone wall are still standing on the outer south face but / bearing
(1) Ill. Lond. News, 27th Aug.1949, 316-7.
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