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… of the centre has a staircase of four steps. It is difficult, in the present state of the clearance, to interpret the meaning of this staircase, but it is possible that it led to an upper storey.
The height of the ashlar walls of this partof the building reaches 1,50 m. [handwritten: about] and almost everywhere we have cleared the lower part of the superstructure of the walls, which were of plaster covered with a coat of whitishcoloured render. Everywhere the ashlar stones are very solidly worked, which indicates that the part of the building had a special importance. The north part of the building was constituted in a different manner. The footing of the walls in ashlar is much lower: it is currently re-
Handwritten: illegible
covered by a thick layer of debris (mostly of decomposed stones) coming from the superstructure, which indicates that at a period that we cannot yet determine but probablement au XIII siècle av. J.C. elle fut démolie. Les trous made in the upper part of the demolition layer nevertheless indicate that life continued after the destruction of this part of the building.
What was this building which by its dimensions and the
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain