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Room 3 had a high threshold which had later been raised to 1.15 m. above the court pavement and its own pavement was 0.50 m. above that of the court; at the NW end, beyond the door-jamb, it was raised one course of bricks higher and near the NW wall was the drain intake; at one time a door was cut through the SW wall and the room served as the entrance-lobby of the house (this in an intermediate period when the street had already risen half a metre) but afterwards the door was walled up again and the room's use as a lavatory was restored with no apparent change in its floor level. Of the stairs only the bottom tread was preserved; at a time when the level of the courtyard had been raised and a clay floor laid down c. 1.00 m. above the original pavement a hole was dug into the filling of the lower part of the stairs and a terracotta bread-oven, diam. 0.65 m., was let into it, destroying all the treads; the earth round it was burnt to a deep red.2
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