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and tomb-chambers, some of which were emptied at the time of the erection of the building tended to produce a certain confusion in the stratigraphical evidence, through the infiltration of earlier pottery
Handwritten: or of later pottery into earlier ones(?)
into the layers associated with our buildings. Furthermore since there was a slope in the original ground surface and since this was only partly corrected by the survival of an earlier deposit in the lower, southward area, extraneous fillings were introduced to raise the floor level of the South Building to that existing elsewhere in the compound. Inevitably, some alien and earlier pottery found its way into the building in these fillings. One has then in examining the pottery to be continually on the lookout for the extraneous, earlier sherd which cannot be used to date the stratum in which it was found, except as a terminus post quem.
Apart from these early irregularities the stratification of the site has been much disturbed by recent digging of pits in search for tombs. Such pits destroyed all the floors and intervening layers
Handwritten: /and
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain