Southern wall of the small room (I16) attached to the main building in Area I. The wall has the same alignment as wall 8039 to the west and 8160 to the east, but is poorly preserved, with few reticulate wall stones in situ. However, this in combination with the alignment and the slightly gray color (due to the mortar) allowed it to be differentiated from rubble leveling layer SU 8187 which covered it and extended to the north. Only the top of the wall has been exposed, but it appears that the wall had collapsed - perhaps intentionally - before the floor preparation (SU 8187 and 8152) was laid down. Room I16 thus appears to have been open to the street (whatever form the street took in this late phase; it must have been about level with Room I16).
E-W wall at southern limit of I16
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