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Tomb 427.
3/4The door packing is broken through. It is on the whole quite solid, and the chavara has a hardness like concrete. A couple of samples of this packing, which lies as if cast between the actual door stones, are taken. The gateway, whose upper edge lies level with den the dromos floor, is accessible through a trench in front of it. This trench is entirely filled with stone, and so the gateway is covered by this stone fill. The tomb is intact. It contains not much earth, but through stalactite formations and seeping water the chavara has petrified and become a rock-hard lime- stone layer. This is however only the condition closest to the door. In the rest of the chamber, which is very small, loose gravelly earth lies undisturbed. The chamber's form is similar to an elongated niche. On each side of the door stands a larger amphora and a hydria, the amphora covered … continues
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