Page 199Scan 404 of 438
Continued from p. 199
… wooden pedestal on which the statue must have stood, as the fixing pins under the heels show (Pl.LXXXIII). In fact it would be difficult to explain otherwise the presence of these atmes and the semicircular space they enclose. It may be objected that this rough and ready manner of fixing the bronze statue is too improvised compared with the fine quality of the statue. But the whole work of the reconstruction following the fire including the building of the partition walls out of adda and mud is improvised and careless work compared with the fine quality of the original building.
It would follow that the statue remained in the same position at the time of floor II which actually is no more than a slight raising of the previous floor III. An objection to this suggestion that the statue was worshipped earlier than the time of floor I on which it was found is; on floor II and III, is that at the time of the earthquake or other disaster which caused the mudbrick superstructure to collapse on /
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain