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of the building, of which the Plan is given in Fig. 266, consisted, according to
its original and finer plan, of the Corridor itself and three rooms which were
afterwards divided up. It further appears that throughout the Central and
Northern part of this area ' kalderim ' paving of the M. M. I—II class underlay

Fig. 266. Plan of N.E. Border Section showing M.M. 1116 partitioning.

the later floors at a depth varying from c. 70 cm. to 1-17 m. There
is every reason, moreover, to suppose that the massive limestone plinth
that borders this area to the East and of which many of the base blocks are
still in position is of early Palace date. One of them bears a large incised
sign of the earlier class.

The branch of the lower E.-W. Corridor described above, that, Enclave
turning North, brought the Domestic Quarter into connexion with the Court ing'Loom
of the Stone Spout, follows on its Western border a rectangular turn of the ^ei&ht

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cups, with similar spiral coil, due to rapid pans; (5) at 1-17 metre below the gypsum
wheel, parts of dark-faced pots with white spots slabbing, a M.M. II ' kalderim ' floor of large
(see below, p. 414 and note i)and broad plain blocks (Excavations of 1913).