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Philistine (48) were found (infra p......, and Pl.XLII)
In room X the section shows one of the three deposits of bowls which were found in situ on floor III (Pl. XVIII,2, XIX, XX). Floor II is the top surface of a sandy layer overlying floor III. Between floor II and I we notice a thick layer of decomposed plaster (red soil with white lime spots), which appears to represent evidence of the same catastrophe to which the previous sections also bear witness. It was in this layer, the surface of which is floor I, that the pit was dug, in which the bronze statue of a horned god was found. (1) which means that the digging of the pit and the placing of the statue in it postdate the destruction at the time of floor II. In the layer between floors II and I a stone trough (127) lying upside down and a fragmentary jar (128) were also found. Their appearance here is difficult to explain unless they had been used on floor II and were disturbed in the tidying up and levelling
(1). The level at which the statue was found is shown by A and B by the wall. A section through the layers in the corner of the room where the statue was found appears on fig. 3 ......cf. pp....
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