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Fourstonestepshavebeenpreservedand
therearetracesofthemountingofmore
onthewallsoftheunit.
Unit30,locatedimmediatelyto
thenorthofunit29[seeFig.11],was
pavedwithlimestoneslabs.Itwaspaved
throughoutandhadalargerecessinthe
southernpart,communicatingwiththe
spaceunderthestaircase.Teentrance,
adoublegateinthebroadsideoftheunit,
openedtothenorth,ontothecourtyard
facingthelake.Treesquareopeningscut
inthethresholdheldthehingesandthe
boltofthelock.Installationsfortying
downdonkeys,familiarfromthepractices
ofmoderndaylocalBedouin,werecutin
twostoneblocks.
Aholeinthepavementoftheback
partofunit30,immediatelybeneaththe
airventmentionedabove,ledtoacellar.
Itappearstohavebeenarobber)shole.Te
cellarconsistedoftwovaultedunits,which
hadbeenhewninbedrockinthelowerpart
andraisedoflargestoneblocksintheupper
part[Fig.10],interconnectedbyasmall
passageway,0.50minheight,hewninthe
rock.Insidetherewereoveronehundred
smallwinejugs(seeDrzymuchowska
2012,inthisvolume)[Fig.12]2andsome
oillamps,aswellas,significantly,alarge
Fig.11.Units29and30,lookingeast
(PhotoT
.Skrzypiec)
2
Similarjugshavebeeninterpretedaswatercontainers(Kaminski-Menssen1996:263-265,Pls112-118),buttheir
numberandstorageinacoolcellarpointstowineasaproductrequiringspecificstorageconditions.
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