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forming the neck of the well. Under this bead the well always widens cut in the soft rock. It is filled with shapeless or cut stones, one of which a sort of capital basin ? with 3 faces or steps tar-covered, superimposed. One clearly sees that the lower part of the well which is markedly narrowed in comparison to the middle, is intentionally crammed with stones coming from the monument. Is there lower down, under this heavy plug of stones wedged in the well a statue or a deposit? Very difficult to remove the blocks from the bottom of the well. At present they lie at 5 m 50 below the present level. The "frame" of 1 m 40 on a side was
Drawing: small square with a circle inside] is perhaps constituted the curb
of the well. See sketch A.
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain