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operations, which must have followed the disaster. That the trough may have been used on one of the floors before floor I is corroborated by the discovery of a second disused stone trough (194) in the adjoining room IX. Here the trough was lying upside down on floor III, its inverted base being at the level of the succeeding floor II. Both these troughs may be connected with rituals or libations to which the piles of bowls on floor III bear witness(infra p.........).
The stratification in room IX presented the same picture as in room X. As already mentioned, below floor III, which was made immediately after the building of the screen wall between the two rooms , we have a filling in which various finds including and egyptian scarab of Thutmosis III (182) and a stone seal representing a Philistine (184) were found (Pl. XLII). Floor II is the top of a sandy layer similar to that in room X, although by the screen wall it had a surface of pise' . 194 is the disused stone trough lying upside down to which reference has already been made. The space between floors II and I is occupied by a thick … continues
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