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doorway, measured 1.9 x 1.5 m, and had
internal buttresses reinforcing the walls,
which have been preserved to a height of
1.6 m. The pavement was made of mud
bricks. The buttresses seem to have been
added at a later date and their splayed
tops suggest that they were intended as
a support for the roof, presumably made of
some perishable material. The fill of this
small room contained large amounts of
carbonized grain.
Loci 4-29/42 and 4-30/41 must have
served a similar storage function. The loci
4 and 5 in square 29/42 initially formed
a single unit, only later subdivided to
create a smaller room (locus 5-29/42). The
grain-storage facility also included a room


Fig. 13 ■ Room for processing foodstuffs in the
grain storage facility of Nineveh 3
date in area “D” (Photo A. Reiche)

3) See PAM XIV, Reports 2002 (2003), 312 and Fig. 10.

(locus 3-29/42) intended for the processing
of stored foodstuffs. It was one of the rooms
entered from the corridor and measured
2.7 x 1.5 m. It had survived in good con-
dition, the walls revealing fine plastering
and the floor covered with a gypsum
plaster. Two quadrangular clay bins were
found in the northern part of the room and
a small round pit and smashed jar in the
southern part (Fig. 13).
Another building of Nineveh 5 date
was found to adjoin the granary on the
west (square 30/41). It was aligned with
the same E-W street and consisted of three
rooms (loci 3, 7, 8-30/41), uncovered
already last year.-5) Further explorations
demonstrated that the floor levels in these


Fig. 14. One of the rooms of a Ninevite-3
house adjoining the granary in area
“D” (Photo A.Reiche)

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