| Entry: | Today we have eventually clarify the situation between southern part of the space 176 (known also as The Shrine 8) and northern section of space 470. The gap in the courses of the bricks within wall [ F.445] recognized in 1990’s as feature 454, appeared to be a niche rater than assumed previously crawl-hole. It seems that it was cut in the mentioned wall, and it truncated also the inter-wall infill 20212. Therefore one may be stated that the niche F.454 was later than wall F445 as well as the accumulated deposit between the walls [F.445 and 7052].
Nevertheless, investigation needed to be done in order to explain relationship between descried two Structures.
The correlation was found in unexpected point and it was not the crawl-hole, but a thin layer of plaster placed on the northern face of wall F.7052 (that constituted northern wall of space 470).
Of course the lack of direct entrance (e.g. crawl-hole) confirmed with no doubt that both spaces (470 and 176) were not the same structure in the past . However, the evidenced single wall, dividing two buildings, had been plastered from both sides. Consequently, that fact highlights the chronological relationship, namely contemporary living / occupation within the both buildings. |
