Granary

After clearing the overlying silt, the original forms of the baked brick walls and hollow buttresses of the "granary" could be made out. The three high walls in the upper left of the image are part of a later rebuilding of the entire structure after… >

After completing the excavation, the trenches were filled with sifted sediment and the "granary" structures were covered with a protective plaster made of clay and straw. >

REM Granary Wheeler had workmen lifting bags of grain with ropes to illustrate his interpretation of the loading dock at the north edge of the so-called "granary". The square voids in the wall face would have been where wooden beams were inserte… >

Clearing outside the southeast corner of the "granary" revealed the underlying mud-brick platform and the top of the baked brick revetment. >

The Great Bath is situated along a north-south street with a drain covered with limestone blocks. In the background is the so-called Granary, while in the foreground are the walls of several domestic structures. >

REM Granary Overview of a small room and passage way with sockets for holding vertical wooden beams. The beams were wedged in with smaller brick fragments to holt them tightly in the sockets. No. 95 also 1105 pencilled in >

Aerial view of the exposed southeastern portion of the "granary" structure shows the nature of brick bonding and the empty sockets that would have held wooden beams and supports. >

The great bath surrounded by a brick colonnade, measures approximately 12 meters north-south and 7 meters wide, with a maximum depth of 2.4 meters. In the background is a massive brick structure with narrow passages that was first identified as a ha… >

REM Granary Workmen are seen at different levels of the so called granary structure to provide scale for this massive building. The upper worker is sitting in a narrow walkway between blocks of brick foundations. The middle worker is standing nex… >

Richard Meadow photographing the southeastern portion of the "granary" structure. >