SU 8170 served as the latest floor in room I7, certainly associated with walls 8038 and 8039 and probably originally with walls 8044 and 8045, though no such relationships are preserved. It is also likely stratigraphically equal to SU 8171 just to the west. This phase is associated with the pressing area in northern Room I1, and the basin In Room I8, so this smaller adjacent room was possibly used for storage purposes related to production. Detailed painted plaster was found in deposits in the room interpreted as collapse, suggesting that the room was nicely decorated; if so then it is possible that the room had an earlier use before the complex was used for production (e.g. perhaps a cubiculum or other house room, based on decor and size). Cf. room I8, which had red painted plaster on its southern wall (8044, which separated it from this Room I7).
Upper floor west of wall 8038 in Room I7, Upper wall south of wall 8044 in Room I7, Floor covered by floor 8170, cut filled by su 8136, cut filled by su 8125, cut filled by SU 8126, Irregular cut in SE corner of room I7, Circular cut in room I7
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Upper floor west of wall 8038 in Room I7; Floor covered by floor 8170; Upper floor south of wall 8044 in Room I7; Floor covered by 8172 in Room I7; Floor at SW corner of I-7; Floor covered by 8242 in room I7; Cut filled by 8161; Cut filled by SU 8138