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Regarding the levels of the floor in the right part of the tomb, it may be mentioned that the floor slopes down from a point in the middle, beneath the door, towards the walls of the burial chamber (see the section drawing and levelling figures). A square, somewhat narrowing inwards, is sunk into the floor immediately below the door (see drawing). Evidently this is the same installation as in tomb 10, although the trench here has sharply marked corners. Here too the trench gives the impression of having been intended as a cistern, a collector of the rainwater that might possibly seep in through the doorjamb. The raising of the floor level towards the edges of this trench also seems to indicate this. The filling in the trench consisted of a largely homogeneous (possibly indistinctly banded) clay right up to a layer 5 cm above the bottom of the trench, where completely sterile chavara began. Immediately at the transition to this last … continues
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