By the 1929-30 season, the team had cleared a block of houses from Level I (115-227 AD) and a
more elaborate building, dedicated to Seleucus as founder of the empire. It contained twenty-one rooms around three sides of a quadrangular court. Waterman's Second Preliminary Report (1928-32) describes the excavation of the same block through three distinct levels of occupation, those being: A) The Parthian occupation level, known as Level II (43-116 AD), B) Level III (141 BC-43 AD) during which the Hellenistic city was autonomous under Parthian rule, and C) Level IV (307-141 BC), in which the city was a Seleucid capital
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