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17/11Chamber β is entirely filled with earth and rock debris but not collapsed. After the clearing it is evident that the chamber is medium-sized, circular and without niches. It is extraordinarily poor in finds and no trace whatsoever of human bones is present. How this is to be explained is difficult to understand, since surely some fragments are always preserved if a body was at all deposited in the tomb. A cenotaph?
The vessels are drawn and taken out.
| 1 | Red Pol. amphora | damaged | height 23.3 |
| 2 | — ” — ” — Red Pol. amphora | ” — damaged | — ” — height 18.5 |
| 3 | — ” — ” — Red Pol. amphora | ” — damaged | in packet |
| 4 | Bronze sword narrow | length 58.8 |
Just west of the doorway runs a narrow channel cut into the rock and opening into the roof of the chamber. Its fill was without finds.
19/11Chamber α has collapsed and is hacked to pieces, so it must be excavated from above. It is quite insignificant, and in the clearing it becomes clear that it … continues
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain