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… on the top surface a groove facing room II, for insertion of a horizontal beam 0.14 m. in thickness. This beam must have joined the beam resting on wall 7. The topmost block of the wall is rabbetted at the angle for the wooden door-post on the south side, but the opposite doorjamb is missing owing to a pit dug here by tomb-searchers. Part of the threshold however exists and is 0.80 m. higher than the level of the earliest floor found (III) in room VIII which is exactly at the same level as floor VI in room III, with which it is contemporary. The difference of level between the threshold and this early floor was however soon obliterated by the placing of a filling in all the rooms of the South Building thus bringing the level of the floors to that of the first floors of the Main Building (supra p. ).
Lastly wall 6 between the original room III and the small western room (II) consists of a foundation of boulders and an upper single course of large rectangular blocks of small height (0.36 m.) which may be the base for an upper course of dressed blocks removed in the arrangements when the wall was ablished. / The … continues
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