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Drawing: trapezoid; labels: 31 cm; 31 cm; 42 cm
The arrangement adopted is as follows: in each course alternates a brick with long side towards the interior and a brick with short side, which gives in plan
Drawing: two adjacent trapezoids in alternating orientation
It is further noted that the joints are not of equal width, but narrower on the interior side of the tomb than towards the exterior. Measurements are impossible, the different bricks having possibly shifted more or less. The different courses are displaced towards the interior in relation to one another and moreover inclined in relation to the horizontal. It is fairly certain also that the convex line of the exterior side does not hold absolutely but that a binding of reddish clay earth filled the interstices both in the horizontal and in the vertical direction.
On the North side of the tomb, one observes a very different arrangement from that which appears on the South and West. The wall of the tomb
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