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H1 Here is a possible resolution of the drain/platform problem (see Claudia's drawings and photos). Phase 1 - The platform is built originally with AK: it fits in the niche, and it is bonded with the wall. At this point the platform is raised above the ash floor to the West, and reaches all the way to the corner of AK and AR [the new building]. The drain is slightly higher than the base of the platform: it is built nicely with well fitted stones, and has a fairly high opening in the wall. This all goes with the first floors of AK: on the inside, the top is well baked bricks (flush with the floor) and then continues with stones once it dips below the floor level. -Phase 2. Floor accumulations rise towards the platform (as seen in southern section), and progressively the relationship between drain and platform is inverted. The second phase of the drain consists of poorer stones, but it cannot get higher than the top of the opening. The platform is overlaid by three  components: a stone ledge along the AK wall, a brick plattform on top of the Eastern half of the stone plattform, a nd a dirt floor with reed "matting" on the top of the Western half of the stone plattform. - Phase 3. The non-palace use of AK: plattform and drain are no longer functional, and the same plain, undifferentiated accumulation develops that we know inside AK.