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‘In all except the smallest dwellings at Mohenjo-daro a certain portion of the ground floor,’ asserts Sir John Marshall, ‘invariably took the form of a terrace or plinth sufficiently high and strong to resist the floods which annually menaced the city.’² ‘In this (second) of the larger houses the terrace thus constructed was some 25 by 30 feet, and quite large enough to support two or three fair-sized chambers.’