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Context Description:
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Room 3 was a chapel. Against the NE wall was an altar, of which only a few bricks were left, and in front of it a large clay pot was sunk in the earth floor. Behind the altar in the wall face was an incense-hearth 0.60 m. high and then narrowed down to a chimney 0.20 m. wide which ran up to the top of the burnt brick in the wall (a total of 1.55 m.) and then ended abruptly, the mud brick, which was certainly contemporary with the burnt brickwork, being carried flush across its line, the incense-hearth not going up to the roof. In the north corner by the altar was a burnt brick base 0.60 m. sq. and five courses high on which stood a "table" of nine courses of burnt brick (0.75 m.) lacking its top and all its mud-plaster decoration. Below the floor there were two larnax graves, one empty, one containing clay vessels of Types IL. O1c, 69a, 93b.2
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