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… something that looks like an oven. -, "but what do indeed we know, who crawled in without light and without tools?". — A passing sheep-thief is hailed and with his souvlakiskewer it is soon really established that a cave's entrance exists at the indicated spot. At this spot, however, it is hardly a question of tombs, rather cisterns etc. A closer examination is postponed.
At the place just described a trial and excavation trench is started. It appears that quite a lot of earth should be there, held by the described walls, for the area itself lies as it were on a terrace in relation to the terrain below, where the rock comes out into the open. In order that both cross and longitudinal walls shall be cut, a trench is taken diagonally through the whole room from southwest to northeast southeast to northwest. or rather in a north-south direction.
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