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Context Description:
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Room 3 was a chapel. The floor was roughly paved with mixed bricks; the walls were all of different dates - or different characters, not bonded at any of the corners, the NE wall having twenty four courses of burnt bricks and standing with its mud brickwork 2.90 m. high, the NW wall eight to eleven courses, the SW wall twenty-six courses (altogether 3.25 m. high) and the SE wall eight courses; there were no signs of roofing. At the NE end there were remains of an altar against the wall and in the north corner an exceptionally well preserved "table" standing on a splayed base, 0.62 m. X 0.56 m. X 1.40 m. high; the mud plaster was modeled to a paneled design, its upper planes painted red, its lower planes white; under the coping were dentils, much destroyed, but apparently in three rows (Fig. 40F; and P1. 45a).2
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