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The existing blocks are 0.61 m. in width and the face towards room III is dressed round the edge leaving a central boss with chipped surface. This wall, at the south end, bonds with the inner face of the facade and to the north it abuts on wall 8. There must have been a door in this wall but no trace of it survives.
It remains to mention room XI, which occupies the angle formed by [handwritten: the] projecting central room of the Main Building (rooms IX and X) and the south wall (17) of the east wing of the same building. The east wall of the room is the north end of wall 1 and on the south it is closed by wall 13 abutting to the east on wall 1 and to the west on wall 12, ie. the wall of the projecting part of the Main Building. We have seen that wall 3 between rooms VI and VII abuts on this wall 13, which is consequently the earlier of the two. This means that after completion of the Main Building first wall 1 was built, ie. the east wall of the South Building, then wall 13, which formed room XI in the awkward angle, and last the walls subdividing the interior of the South Building. All these /operations … continues
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