This is the thrashingfloor, where the wheat is gathered to be thrashed.

The original article (which see) mentions that the primary shafts on the upperwings lacked any whitish coloration.

...the transcribers themselves have candidly intimated by the suspended Nun that סשמ is the genuine reading, and the Masorets also expressly state, that the Nun was inserted, in order that the first idolatrous priest should not be said to be a grandson of Moses.

In rehearsals here the director, Oliver Butler, has brought up kintsugi, the Japanese art of repairing broken objects with powdered gold or other colors to accentuate the cracks.