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very elongated; small blind alleys, of which we have already observed two, were to facilitate the access to the buildings erected in these blocks or quarters.
While studying the ground along the extension south of the N-S street, after the called street 18, three other transverse E-W streets have been observed, also spaced from one another by c. 32 m, two are visible in our long N-S trench of research of 1949; the third in the S.W. corner of the Area of the House of the Bronzes. — In all, seven E-W transverse streets and one N-S artery have thus so far been established at Alasia. It is a very urban plan precise and denoting a construction of this town in a single "jet".
Right at the South, against the S enclosure and distant from it by c. 20 m, there is the street of the rampart, already cleared in our excavations of 1947. Its width is only 2 m 60.
Saturday 5 Decemberfine. Continuation of excavations in all the soundings and areas along the W and S enclosure walls and opening of a sounding across the extension towards the East of the street called the "temple": sounding 17. Here we
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