Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean (2.1989/90(1991))

rooms. The rooms contained numerous domestic installations such as: fireplaces, querns,
mortars, a storage jar, a tannur and a small basin. The exterior walls of this house were
constructed of two rows of large mudbricks, while the partition walls were much
thinner. The walls (preserved to a height of ca 1.2m) were reinforced with internal
buttresses and plastered with a thick layer of white plaster. Of the other dwellings not
much can be said as only small sections were exposed within the limits of this sector.

TELL DJASSA EL-CHAEBI TX1NCH M-tf-O

Fig. 3. Layer I house found in squares M-0.

In the same M-N-0 trench, just below the lowest floors of houses belonging to
layer I we found the top of layer II with fragments of the upper parts of an arched
mudbrick structure. It closely resembled buildings discovered in layer II of the step
trench A-J.

Last year Layer III was found only in the main step trench, where its top was
reached immediately beneath the foundations of arched structures belonging to layer

98