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Context Description:
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Room 11; another door from Room 14 led into a large long and narrow chamber which was a chapel. The threshold had been raised at a late period by new brickwork 0.40 m. high; the whole floor had been paved, but much of the pavement was destroyed; under it, in the middle of the room, was a large brick burial-vault with arched doorway (LG/4) and all round by the walls were pot-burials and larnax graves (LG/3, 5-12); at the NE end of the room very little of the pavement remained and a stratum of ashes lying on earth flush with the better-preserved paving at the SW end may mean that here the bricks had not been replaced after the later interments. At 2.4 0 m. from the SW wall a line of bricks laid above the pavement seems to mark the line of a "chancel screen"; in the centre of the space behind it a mass of burnt brick with a mud-brick centre which was apparently the ruins of an altar 2.00 m. long X 1.50 m. wide which, contrary to the general rule, was detached from the back wall (from which it was separated by a strip of paving 1.15 m. wide) and lined up with the screen of the "chancel". In the south corner was another rectangle of burnt brickwork which was the lower part of a "table" standing, apparently, on a stepped base; just by this there was in the SE wall a doorway which had been blocked up by a screen of brickwork so as to transform it into a shallow niche; another door in the same wall but near the east corner was not opened by us.2
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