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… section of the Main Building. It is built in the same
manner as the preceding wall except that the top part
was formed of twin slabs placed back to back leaving
a space (0.15 m.) between. These however are replaced
by a single block at the south end of the wall which
shows a rabbet for the wooden doorjamb. The opposite
doorjamb is formed by a piece of wall (3a) abutting
on wall 3 with a corresponding rabbet in the upper
dressed block. The threshold is 0.60 m. above the
level of floor VI in room III but approximately level
with floor V (infra p. ). The rabbetted angles of
the stone blocks shows at the level of the threshold
cuttings to receive a piece of wood of rectangular
section (0.18 m. in thickness) actually resting on
the stone threshold. This appears to have completed
the lower part of the wooden doorway frame, the up-
right parts being inserted in the rabbetted angles.
The wall (8) between rooms VIII and II abuts on
wall 7 and is built similarly with the difference that
the topmost stone part is of a single dressed block
(l. 1.28 m.; ht. 0.71 m.; th. 0.51 m.), which shows
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