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century. Evidence pointing to a similar hiatus before the erection of the Main Building has already been noted in room X.
Floor V, which rests on the fill and is the first good floor of the room, is formed by a thick layer of lime marl. It is approximately at the level of floor V in the Main Building and is the floor on which the conflagration and the subsequent alterations took place (supra p.....). The only pottery found on this floor is a Mycenean II or III fragment (461 on Pl. L, 5). The presence of this earlier sherd in a con- text not earlier than Mycenean IIIC: 1 recalls the discovery in room XIV of Mycenean IIIB fragments overlying the hearth in the construction of which Mycenean IIIC fragments were used.
The layer between floor V and IV shows typical
Handwritten: les lies at begun LC III
LC III pottery: a few fragments of white slip II (714 b on Pl. L, 6) and decorated LCIII (714 d on Pl. L, 6). It also contains one fragment of Mycenean IIIC: 1 ware with double wavy line (714 e on Pl.L, 6).
Floor IV produced only a stone seal (353 on Pl. L, 4), the shape of which recalls the Philistine /seal; … continues
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