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Context Description:
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Room 8, the chapel, (P1. 41b) was paved with mixed bricks, 0.31 m. sq., 0.31 m. X 0.15 m., 0.25 m. sq., 0.25 m. X 0.15 m., etc. The altar was at the west end and stood on a platform raised above the general level of the floor by a single course of bricks; it had four courses of burnt bricks with mud bricks above giving a total height of 0.45 m.; in the wall behind the altar was an incense-hearth 0.60 m. wide X 0.28 m. deep which at a height of 0.45 m. diminished in width to a chimney 0.20 m. across; in the SW corner were the remains of a decorated "table" of mud brick on burnt brick foundations; in the south wall above the dais was a recess 0.13 m. deep. Below the pavement was a large brick tomb LG/80, in the SE corner was an infant's burial in a hutch coffin (cf. PI. 96 a) set only just below pavement level, against the side of LG/80 was a larnax burial LG/79 and elsewhere under the floor were graves LG/76, 77, 78, 81. The east wall of the chapel (and of the house generally) is based on an older buttressed wall connected with that underlying the south side. All the internal walls are original to the house.2
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