I have already shown that the site of the second city must have been deserted for a long time before it was again built upon. The new settlers began, as M. Burnouf remarks, “with levelling the débris upon the ruins of the Second City: they filled the cavities and ravines with stones and other material, in many places only with ashes or clay, interlaid with clay cakes (galettes).”

The great wall c on the view No. 144, which their predecessors had built on the south side, did not appear strong enough to them, because it sloped at an angle of 45°, and could, consequently, be very easily scaled. They therefore built just before it, on the south side, the large wall marked b on No. 144, which slopes to the south at an angle of 15° from the vertical line, whilst on the north side, where it faces the old wall c, it was built up vertically. In this manner there was formed between the two walls a great triangular hollow, which was filled up with earth. My excavations in this hollow have proved that it is pure earth, without any intermixture of débris. But, like the wall c, this second wall b does not consist altogether of solid masonry.