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Context Description:
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Room 1, the chapel proper, was paved with burnt bricks 0.26 m. X 0.17 m. At the SW end was a raised dais 1.50 m. X 1.10 m. (surviving; it probably originally extended right across the room) on which were the remains of an altar faced with burnt brick and packed with earth. In the west corner was a "table" of burnt brick plastered with mud, 0.50 m. sq. X 1.20 m. high, decorated on the exposed side with panels and on the front with a rope pattern (Fig. 40D), standing on a base 0.50 m. high set on the dais pavement. Most of the SW wall, together with the altar, had been destroyed; the SE wall had been thrust inwards and much of it had fallen in a solid mass into the chapel. The unevenness of the pavement pointed to the existence of a tomb below it, but the excavation was not carried below floor level.2
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