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building, then has me explain to him the strat. of the excavations along and behind N. wall. - He realised that the fine Temple Area bldg. is Bronze Age, but seems no longer to remember his initial error. The essential is that there is no more divergence in the dating. His comparison of the occupation of the bldgs. of Late Bronze I by the Hyksos is impossible and I make him understand discreetly the fragility of his hypothesis.
Oct. 22Saturday, 13th day of excavation (1/2 day). Under the column base and its plinth a layer of old archaeological earth not disturbed since, and under this a packing of shapeless stones, very compacted, filling a cavity. Could it be the sacred deposit under the monument, a tomb?, a foundation deposit? We first make the section, then go to empty it after having removed the most northerly slab of the base, a slab slightly inclined towards the N. by following the settling of the filling below.
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain