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The building lay high, on the same level as the latest edition of No. 3; its foundation must have gone back to the middle of the Larsa period, but its floors had been raised until the threshold of the front door was flush with the top course of the standing wall. Only the two first rooms were preserved above floor level, but behind them there was a series of sunken chambers more than two metres deep, with heavy walls of mud brick covered with a thick mud plaster to which a certain amount of grain was adhering. There was evidence to show that the chambers had been roofed over with planking and that the burnt-brick walls of a superstructure had been carried along the top of the underground mud-brick walls. The chambers were in fact cellars or magazines, presumably for the storage of grain, which would have been reached by trap-doors in the floors of the ground-floor rooms. Nothing of the kind has been found elsewhere on the site.2
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