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… the building after the catastrophe. It is of special interest owing to the discovery in its south-east corner of the bronze statue (Pl. XVI, XVII). The statue (19 on Pl. XLIV, 3) was standing in a pit 0,50 m.-0,60 m. in depth, dug in the floor, and since the height of the statue is 0.55 cms. the top of the latter was at the level of the floor (cf. fig.3). The pit appears therefore to have the character of a hiding place (infra p. ...). Apart from the statue a miniature sickle (?) of bronze (744 on Pl. XLIV, 1) was found in the pit touching the right hand of the statue as well as a bronze pin 126 and a bronze ribbon 27 (both on Pl. XLIV, 1).
To sum up, room X produced the following evidence There existed in this area previous to the erection of our building remains of a LCI building, which was
Handwritten: après le ... catastrophe
abandoned probably in LCII. These remains occupied a depression in the original bedrock and when the erection of our building was undertaken in LCIII the floors of the earlier building were cut by the foundation trenches. The original floor of room X /extended
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