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area will be street IV or second forth avenue, the street to the N of temple area = IIIrd av. or street III, the street to the S of our N area = IInd av. or street II, and I hope that 40 paces further to the N we will still find the 1st av. or street I to the south of the area immediately behind the N enclosure. [Note: a diagonal line also crosses out the middle of the first four lines]
Verification done, the E-W streets ( I II & III bleat are distant from each other by 34 32 m 50: here is the record exact: Their width is very exactly (cf. in the 3 streets so far fully cleared, of 3m05, the street N-S also measures 3m05 wide.
The width of the blocks between the E-W streets is of 32m40-32m60 in both cases (block Bat. 18 and block called temple) whose edges are well preserved.
It is the street called the "temple" which runs towards the East
Drawing: plan of a North-South street intersected by four East-West streets, forming blocks; labels: STREET North-South; 3m06; 3m; "street of building 18"; 32m60; block of building 18; 3,05; street of the "temple"; 32m40; area called of the temple; 3m; street of the "votive ingots"; 56m80; (excavations 1953) begun; street; north area; E; W; N
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain
