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Room 9 was unmistakeably the kitchen; it was clay-floored; in the north corner was a circular terracotta bread-oven (diam. 0.65 m.) and at the SW end a regular fire-place, a raised base of burnt brick having, in its top brickwork, channels for burning charcoal exactly like those of the modern Arab stove; a rough straight-sided clay bowl, diam. 0.55 m., lying inverted in the middle of the room may have belonged to a later phase. The room had undergone several changes. The SW wall, which went up in burnt brick to 1.80 m., was originally the outside wall of the house; at a later time a door was cut through it to Room 12, but then the door was blocked by a rough screen wall and finally, when the kitchen floor had risen 0.90 m. above its old level, the door was again opened. In the same SW wall, facing the court door, there were at 1.45 m. above floor level two holes in the brickwork which looked like lodgements for timbers but could not be explained.2
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