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July 29, 1971

Worked in areas E-F/25-26 and F-J/27-28.

Trench photos.

Drawing: profile in E/24, see p. 114 .

Trench photos:  Profile D-F/22-23 was photographed in the morning.  Two basic soil types can be easily observed in profile: light brown soil in D-E, dark brown (fill?) in F.  There is a clear borderline between them, running diagonally downwards to dug surface, obviously consisting of pezzettinni of a grayish white stone, of fairly loose consistency.  Uppermost

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layer in D and southern part of E consists of a thin but compact stratum of tile pezzetti, embedded in yellow soil; soil turns reddish and again yellowish deeper down in same area, in clearly marked-out streaks in profile wall.  Part of fallen (partly burnt) wall of mud??  Or pavement, partly heavily burnt??

Tile layer in grids F-J/27-28 was photographed after polishing.  As can be seen from the picture, it reaches its highest level in F/28 (background to the right), its lowest level, sloping westwards in J/27 (foreground to the left).  On surface of J/28, hardly any tiles at all; stone pack dominate over tiles in northern part of F/27 (foreground to the right).

E-F/25-26:  Three men engaged

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for a while in removing the remaining ab. 10-15 cm thick small stone-earth layer down to level reached in F/25.  Big rim fragment of pithos lifted.

When we started to lift the tile layer in F-J/27-28, these three men were sent over to Tamsen in trench T-9.

Tile layer in F-J/27-28 was lifted starting from west, F-J/27.  In F/27, soil character same as E-F/23-24: rather dark brown, rather heavily mixed with stones of small size.  Tiles not at all so frequent here as northwards in G-H/27.  In J/27, we

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seem not yet to have reached upper surface of tile layer proper, which slopes down towards north here.  Rather much pottery (might form entire pots; see among finds below) in G-H/27, esp. G/27; here also more bones than in upper layers compared with grids northwards.  In F/27, both pottery and bones scarce.

From F-H/27 and G/28, ca. 10 possible but uncertain statue fragments (small in size).  H/27: Gorgon antefix.  G:28: part of ridgepole tile, fitting with statue!

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• Find #4
• T-18 G/27 (and J/27, J/29)
• Impasto bowl, low and wide
• Photo

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• Find #12
• T-18 H/27
• Fragment of gorgon antefix, upper right part
• Drawing