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of a row of pithot found upon it, decorated with 'medallions' showing-
white rosettes, more fully described below, as typical products of the
closing M. M. Ill phase.1 The carbonizing process due to the oil which
these originally contained had much blackened the gypsum slabbing, and ^o' Pave-
this process had extended to two strata below. At a depth of 37 cm. beneath ™^tnets:
this gypsum floor, immediately resting on the Neolithic clay, was a pave- m. m. ii.

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Fig. 234. Section beneath M.M. Ill/; Pavement of Magazine of 'Medallion' Pithoi,
showing Intermediate Strata and M.M. lib 'Mosaiko' Floor below, with Plaster Stand for
large Oil Jar.

ment of the M.M. lid 'mosaiko' class,2 consisting of polygonal slabs of
very fine limestone, the interstices of which were filled with white plaster.
In some pavements of this class the plaster is bright red.

In the overlying deposit above this 'mosaiko' floor lay shallow bowls, inter-
small plain vessels and fragments, a few M. M. II, but mostly typical of the ™ m^iii
M. M. Ill class. At 17 cm. above it was a plaster floor over which was Floors,
a carbonized layer, 5 cm. thick, with further M.M. Ill sherds. Then followed
another plaster floor and a similar deposit, still more carbonized, imme-

1 See p. 562 seqq. and Fig. 40!). 2 See above, p. 210.

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