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8. Chavara base layer
Layers 5-8 are the tomb's earth. The chamber is undisturbed and extremely rich in vessels. All the vessels except one – a Mycenaean spout amphora of the so-called Rhodian type – are early geometric, c. 1000 B.C., and of high quality. The skeletons are badly disturbed, but traces of two are present. The one, whose skull lies fallen toward the southern long wall of the rectangular chamber, lies supine along the chamber's diagonal. The other lies along the northern long side and is marked by a black body stain. A third has been swept aside in the southeast corner, where a skull also lies.
The dromos fill's sherds are also Geometric and inby the door lies as of find- … continues
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain