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Drawing: section diagram, labelled with text
chavara SILTED deposit Brown mixed chavara earth
| Small martyra center of (E) N wall2.12 | 2.17 |
Drawing: section diagram, with arrows and notes
-6.244 e d 6.38 6.45 y a 6.544 1sqv. = .05 to NE corner - 1.20 of tomb fleck of charcoal BONES (from ca 09 to .14 up) (LEVEL OF BURIAL 4, p. 9, etc.) FLOOR OF TOMB -6.544 (vp. 52)
a.) mixed chavara and dark earth contrastingly flecked, fairly solid
b.) bones, where there were any, otherwise loose crumbly medium dark fill
c.) small stones at this level
pebbley all to this level | mudriedd. silted deposit pretty light in color in perhaps 20 layers in 14 cm. thick (layers vary, some as much as .01 ca)
e.) loose white chavara
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56 15/VI/40 Stones in oblique stamion were drawn in place & section of Elia yesterday, also phot. (see p. 53). Now being cleared away. In dark earth with quite a few small sherds, of coarse red ware, many blackened (casserol stuff). Also some pieces of bone.
x date, see | note on back | of E skeletonHistorical and prehistorical After deposit of "rock" forming our more southern walls, a streak cut through W to E laying strata of small stones (see pp. 41-43) the spreading margins of which are visible against our back E wall, and into which the whole N wall is cut so the floor near the N wall is also stony. In this mixed geological deposit the tomb was cut, presumably with the regular entrance in the W wall which the arrangement of the 3 lowest skeletons makes look right. After these skeletons bodies were laid out, in any case after the NW child was, there was a fall of small stones in the NW corner, and nowhere else at this level. Above this point is another tomb only partly excavated by us. The partition between
Margin left: floor ca. | .95 above | our floor
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain