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… room into two smaller units, one on the east (room X) and one on the west (room IX). Following this operation a floor was made in each of the new units approximately at the level of floor V of room XIII. This floor is the third floor from the top in these units and is referred to as floor III (1). The two rooms had no direct intercommunication but a doorway room IX had/xxxx on the west, where there had been one in the original arrangement, and room X perhaps had one in the north-east corner now destroyed by a looter's pit.
The creation of the room in which the statue was found (at a higher level) and that adjoining it was thus subsequent to the conflagration on floor V (IV in room X) and formed part of the general scheme or reconstruction throughout the whole of the compound. This is confirmed by the material used in / the
(1) In room X the floor on which the conflagration occurred was actually the fourth from the top and is referred to as floor IV, although it corresponds to floor V in other parts of the building.
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