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The so-called small doorway appears not have been a stoma but the blocking up of a breakthrough - no doubt accidental - in the common wall separating the tomb in the north part of 20:15b from the tomb in the south part of 20:15b. This would indicate that both tombs were in use before the destruction of the south Tomb.
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20:15b (cont. from p. 125)
6-26-54. which overlies the collapsed ruins of this wall in considerable depth. At the bottom of this stratum and for the most part just above the mud bricks are many fragments of a broken pithos. The stratification of the south scarp of the trench is virtually as regular as that of the west scarp (p. 122) and shows that the mud bricks fell flat and evenly. The stone wall appears to built flush, against the bed rock formation of the north half of the trench.
Photo BAM '54 no. 13 stone wall in south (looking to S.)
6-28-54 Continue clearing mud brick layer, this gives way to a layer of hard packed gritty red brown earth which lies directly over the bedrock. The latter has the light gray green color of that found at this depth in 20:15a. It is -1,53m. The S. wall had no foundation trench and rests directly on bed rock. In the north part of area adjoining the wall there was no red earth, and the mud brick layer went directly to bed rock.
Photo BAM '54 no 14 S. wall from NE.
maximum depth of mud brick layer 45 cm. Below this 25 cm. of red earth.
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