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the southermost part of the Main Building and the area west of it. The most important part of this section is that which shows the stratification in room X, in which the bronze statue of the horned God was found and the adjoining room IX. In room X a trial pit revealed remains earlier than the erection of the compound, belonging to the LCI period. Here below floor IV, which is the earliest in room X, we noticed a rubble wall, which rests on the rock and with which three floors V-VII are connected. These remains must have some connection with those found in the deeper levels of rooms VI and III already mentioned ( see description of section AA p........). They lie in the depression of the original bedrock and, at the time when the building of the compound was undertaken, they had long been abandoned. From floor V downwards all t he floors were cut through by a trench in which the south wall of room X rested ( Pl. XX,3). The base of the wall, which was built of dressed blocks from the bottom, rested actually on floor VII, which overlies the bedrock and which being of limestone marl was probably … continues
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