These slabs represent the floor at the southern limit of Room 16, as well as serving as the covering for a drainage channel known to run east-west in this part of the terrace. It is uncertain what the transition to the rest of the space of Room 16 to the north would have looked like given the poor state of preservation. But these slabs do sit at a significantly higher level than the slab floor of the central-west part of that room (5662). Given the way in which the southernmost block of wall 5665 is worked, and the layer 5780 that was uncovered by the removal of SU 5572 inside of Room 16, it seems likely that there was originally an ashlar wall that ran E-W along these slabs (and slabs 5739), now robbed. Whether access would have been possible given the presence of this wall to spaces further north from these slabs is uncertain, as is the purpose of this space if it was a 'dead end', with only one route in across threshold 5596. Also unclear is the purpose of the ashlar block at the western limit of this floor (5586): is it the remnant of a proper wall that would have turned traffic immediately to the north upon entering this space from threshold 5596, or does it represent a different - and less obtrusive - kind of feature, whose purpose is now difficult to reconstruct?

Ashlar top surface of a drainage channel running E-W in F area.