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15th day of excavation Wednesday 21 Sept. 1960 6h: 16°C; 7 1/2: 32°C floor.
Photos and study of alluvium, E-W road and above place at paving. No important finds to report. Internal organisation of the Mission: 1) Removal of earth, the lorry often breaking down (old age), I required that the traxcavator work always with 2 lorries to speed up the removal of earth whose high ridges along its trenches hinder our work and slow the clearing in the direction wanted towards the East, dir. of the buildings against which lean the fine paving (palace?); 2) the 2nd lorry is immediately engaged. 2) _Delimitation of the work between de Contenson and Courtois_; the division proposed by the first did not seem entirely equitable: I propose and obtain their agreement that the pottery will be collected by zones of 4 m dividing the trenches by each of them in turn: each will follow his trench from top to bottom; the inventory of objects in the evening will be made jointly; the plotting of objects on the chant will be made during one week by de Cont., then by Courtois. In this way the
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