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UPPER WEST MAGAZINES: REVISED PLAN

countermarked by graffito signs of this form of script. (See Fig. 604 a b)
tatedwith All these remains had been in a similar manner precipitated from an
tablets upper story where, for the sake of dryness, such documents would pfe-
upper ferably be preserved. It will be seen, indeed, from the revised plan

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SUMAINS OF TAP^ZZA PAVEMENT '■.-■-'

cham-
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Upper
West
Maga-
zines.

Fig. C05. Revised Plan of Upper Palace Section above Part of West Magazines and the
Long Corridor showing Upper Magazines A-F.

Fig. 605,1 that six of the basement Magazines- (see p. 631, Fig. 621)
answer to the same number of similar chambers above, marked A—r, CJi
these a-e are clearly evidenced by the door-jambs and parts of the upper
walls, preserved more or less at their original level and shown, with
some slight restorations, in Fig. 606, while the existence of E and F is
a logical deduction. A view of the entrances of three of these Uppei
Magazines—B, c, D—as partly restored, at their original level, is given in
Fig. 605, together with the Upper Corridor floor and the piers of the undei-
1 See revised Plan C at the end of this "- Including the original Magazine C, litter
Volume. reduced to a mere passage-way.