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Moreover the present western end of the facade is composed of a large standing block (ht. 1.05 m., w. 0.86 m., th. 0.58 m.), a second one almost square in plan of broader dimensions with expanding base, leaving a margin all round except for the outside face. The top parts of both those blocks are damaged. It is therefore permissible to assume that larger dressed blocks stood originally on the present foundation of the facade.
The doorway to the central room of the building is clear, the east doorjamb being composed of a large slab on which the remnant of a standing block above mentioned is still seen. Of the west doorjamb only the lower foundation of boulders remains. The doorway from the street into the western room, in its later reduced form, is marked by a threshold of boulders in the north east corner, flanked on the west by the two blocks already mentioned, which form the western end of the reduced facade (38). Turning to the eastern room XXIV+XXII we observe in the western part of the facade wall (at 39 on Pl.1) the / mouth
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