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… this deposit although insignificant, belongs also to the LCI period. When the South Building was completed the surface of the earlier deposit was levelled and it is this surface that I call floor VI. The layer between this floor and next one (V) the first floor proper of the South Building, is the intentional filling composed of limestone flakes and gravel which raised the internal level to that of the other part of the compound.
Of the conflagration which occurred on floor V destroying most of the northern part of the compound and damaging the remainder, no stratigraphical evidence is seen on the section. However this is evidenced by the burnt floors, the traces of burnt beams on them and the crossed blocks which bear clear evidence of fire. The absence of stratigraphical evidence of the conflagration should, as already mentioned, be attributed to a general clearance which took place, after the disaster.
Of the rearrangements of the compound followi- … continues
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