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was later dispensed with and replaced by two rectangular atones possibly supports for a light wooden partition. The wall (3) between rooms VI and VII+III abuts at the north on wall 13 and on the south on one of the blocks of the facade (40), the internal face of which shows a shallow cut to permit better bonding (pl.XIII.9). However we know that the southern portion of this wall was removed at the time of the alterations. The northern part of the wall is preserved to a total height of 1.80 m. It is composed as usually of an upper part of dressed twin alaba (length 1 m., height 0.71 m. or smaller), which rest on a course of smaller squared stones which form the base with a margin on either side, above a foundation of boulders which rest on the bedrock. Part of the superstructure of mudbricks is still preserved to a total height of 0.50 m. with lime plastering on the west face. There was a doorway in this wall communicating between rooms VI and III.
The wall (4) between rooms VII and VIII abuts at the north on wall 41 ie. the south wall of the central section … continues
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