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smaller rooms oen onto this hall to the est and the north to of them hae yield­
ed a aenent in mortar flagslones, carefully built this element is so far unique in
the buildings found on the site. t is in any case clear that the rectangular flagstoned
roonm hich oens by ١o small doors to the north of the illared hall mars then
clearly the northern linmit of the building, as attested by the comlete brea hich
one can obsere in the stratigrahy of the layers situated aboe. t seems then that
during this hase, the rincial entrance of this area of the conle as in fact the
door ith cut stone door jambs cleared to the south by the Danish Eedition in
19.

t is still difficult to lace this architectural slage ithin the chronology of Late
Dilmun. The large fill hich, as e shall see, searates it fronm the net hase, here
comlicates an already comle slratigrahy the radiocarbon dates obtained thus far
are, in the resent stage of our thining, considered to be too early in relation to the
associated archaeological material. A detailed study of the ottery and of the
numerous clay figurines (Fire 14), as ell as the results of ne isotoe analysse,
should neertheless mae it ossible to shorten an ecessie bracet of nearly 6
years, from the 12th to the 6th centuries BC.

Figure 14 - Clny figurines found in the ifll searating the to occuation stages of the illared hall

hTe arcihtceutral hase ihch follos also reresents the latest stage of the
building. t is marde by rofound modifications in the reiously descried fittings
(Fig‫ﻫ‬re 1 a-b). e loors, siutated about 1m higher than the receding ones, ere
isntalled after a general filling in of the 2one seeral alls and one of the illar of
the early hase ere raised u and reused other structures, including hte second

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