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… layer of decomposed pisé and mudbricks of dark red colour. On the surface of this layer, which must represent the post-destruction level in the room , stag's antlers and animals bones mixed up with fragments of vases were found but as will be seen from the description of the room (infra........) other bones of animals were found deeper than the surface of this layer. There was no floor I properly speaking, but the animals bones at this level must represent offerings connected with the bronze statue in the adjoining room X. It is in any case important to note that the same thick layer of decomposed pisé and mudbricks which we have noticed in room X and in other rooms and will be observed in other parts of the building, occurs also here and testifies once more the destruction suffered by the building at the time of floor II.
The deposit in the area west of room IX shows similar evidence. Here too on floor II rests a thick layer of decomposed pisé . The group of stones appearing in squares K-∧ 14 is a circular platform which was built following the collapse and consequent- … continues
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain