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… part giving access to room VI, and one further west for room III in its original form. Between the two doorways there was a piece of solid wall built of slabs placed back to back, with at either end standing blocks to form the doorjambs of the two doorways. The second, eastern jamb block of the east doorway we have already noticed re-used in the east wall. Both doorjambs of the east doorway were rabbetted to receive wooden door-posts. This was not the case in the western doorway of which the second, western doorjamb is missing.
At the time of the alterations the eastern door-[handwritten: handwritten annotation above "the" and a vertical bracket line running down the left margin of the following lines] way was walled-up (M.XIII.9) and the eastern door-[handwritten: "already" / "read" / "sorry" handwritten notes, with a long bracket] jamb was removed and used in the repair of the stone part of the east wall of the room. A new doorway was then opened in the piece of solid wall between the two previous doorways. The inner slab, which with the outer ones formed the wall at this point, was moved [handwritten: "already p.40" written in the right margin] and placed perpendicularly to the facade to flank a staircase constructed inside the new door; the lowest step of this staircase rested on floor V, i.e. the floor [handwritten: slash mark before "floor"] … continues
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain