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A sealed floor deposit in the Neran bathhouse contains coins minted no later than 312 C.E. The plaster beneath that floor bears a dedicatory inscription dated 298 C.E. A repair trench that cuts through both plaster and floor contains pottery first manufactured in 340 C.E. No object in any of these contexts shows evidence of later intrusion.
Which one of the following is most strongly supported by the information above?
- The floor was installed after 298 C.E. but before pottery of the type found in the trench was first manufactured.
- The repair trench was cut in the same year that its latest diagnostic pottery was first manufactured.
- The plaster bearing the dated inscription was already in place before the repair trench was cut.
- The floor was installed in 312 C.E., the mint date of its latest possible coin.
- At least one coin in the sealed floor deposit was minted between 298 and 312 C.E.
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