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… the debris from the floor. The building was thus reconstructed and re-used but in the reconstruction several re-arrangements were carried out. These will be mentioned in the course of the ensuing description of the architectural remains.
The whole of the South Building (Pl.XII,2) and the projecting part of the central room of the Main Building escaped with relatively little damage. That is why the walls here have still the dressed blocks which are almost entirely absent in the northern part of the compound. We shall see however that even the South Building was rearranged subsequently to the conflagration, simultaneously, we may appear with the alterations carried out to the northern part.
This preliminary introduction to the history of the compound will enable the reader to understand the apparent difference in the structure of the two parts, northern and southern, difference which might otherwise be misleading or difficult to understand.
As already stated, the compound uncovered by the excavations consists of a Main Building in the centre, forming the core to which annexes were added on all sides
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