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early sherds in the fill were gathered up with the earth collected for the purpose from an earlier deposit, or even a disused tomb for more than one of these was encountered when the foundation trenches for our buildings were cut.
Now what happened to the extension of floor V into room X + IX? We cannot be sure but it seems probable that the following operations took place. First, on completion of the original building, it is assumed that a floor of the quality of floor V in room XIII extended throughout room X + IX. There followed
Handwritten: also floor V is antericure to conflagr...
the conflagration which took place on this earliest floor. Following this the debris was cleared away and with it, in this area, the floor surface on which it had fallen, and the reconstruction with some alterations took place. Among the alterations was the construction of the two partition walls built on either side of the pillar (16 on Pl. I) between room XIII and room X + IX, which served to isolate the latter. Simultaneously a partition wall was built dividing the space thus isolated into an eastern (X) and a western room (IX). It is possible that the /extension
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