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… in the history of the compound, during which further rearrangements of minor importance took place, such as the building of rubble walls to sub-divide rooms or to reduce their dimensions. The first case is illustated by the rubble wall in square H-Z, 0-2 in room XXI, wall which rests on floor III but was actually built at the time of floor II. The second case is illustrated by the wall bisected by the line of square H 4; this wall also rests on floor III and was built to reduce the size of room XIV, possibly owing to damage caused by the subsidence of the stone filling in the cavity underlying this room.
The earthquake which introduces the third or last
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stage of the compound and which caused widespread damage is evidenced here as on the other sections by the thick layer of decomposed pisé or mudbricks between floors II and I i.e. the topmost.
The evidence then from this section shows clearly that there existed on part of the site of the compound earlier (LCI) remains, and that some of the foundations of our compound were laid in trenches dug
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