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… pottery found on floor VI is contemporary and we -IItherefore may date the deposit to the LCI/A.e. end of the Fifteenth or beginning of the Fourteenth century B.C. That the surface of the deposit in question, which I called Floor VI, was used as a floor for a short period is corroborated by the fact that in room VIII, also in the South Building, we find at the same level i.e. 13.18, a good floor which is without any doubt subsequent to the erection of the building. This is proved by the fact that this floor touches part of the lower rubble foundation of the walls as well as the lower part (of dressed masonry) of wall 14 of the main building against which room VIII was built. However the intention of the builders from the outset was to raise the internal floor level of the South Building to that of the earliest floors of the Main Building, i.e. approximately 12.70, and this is proved by the fact that the thresholds of the various rooms are 0,60 m. (on an average) above the level of floor VI in room III. Indeed raising of the floor level was carried out soon after by the addition of a thick layer … continues
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain