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street walls on the level of
the upper floor had
terracotta grilles.
Fragments of these were
found in the room with the
staircase. One of these
grilles (Add. 97139) has
been reconstructed almost
whole: h.85 cm; w. 60 cm;
th. 4.5 cm. It seems that the
grilles were part of the
original furnishings of the
house which can be dated
on the grounds of the
tableware, found in the
toilet shaft in the previous
season,4 to the middle of
the 7th century. The house
underwent some rebuilding
at one point in its existence,
but the nature of the
changes will be more
apparent once the entire structure is cleared. The room next to the
staircase was filled with a big mastaba making use of
three amphorae set in the western wall. Two of these had
inscriptions on their shoulders and the upper parts of the body.
Written in big buff letters were the names of persons and their
offices, including the Bishop Maria. The way in which the name
was written, without any clear indication of it having been

Fig. 5. Window-grille, A. 106.
East wall of House
Drawing by W. Godlewski.


4 Wl. Godlewski, PAMWW, 1996 (1997), p. 183, fig.5.

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