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section line goes through the area west of the room XIII.
The main interest in this section is the stratification in room XIII. Here the lowest floor reached is V which is the earlier floor of the central room of the Main Building.
Floors V to III succeed each other without interruption. Floor II is separated from floor III by a thin layer of reddish soil. It has on it a thin carbonized layer which covered almost the whole of the floor. Its end on the east was cut away by a pit dug by tomb searcher but on the west it reaches a layer of plaé overlying the lower stone courses of the west wall of the room. This means that the superstructure of the wall was of plaé, which, as will be seen, belongs to the period following floor V when the upper blocks of the wall had already disappeared through a destruction caused by a fire attested on that floor. In other words, following the destruction the room was reconstructed and having lost some of the stone courses of the walls, these were rebuilt in plaé, which rested on the survived … continues
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