Context Description:
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Room 10; behind the guest-rooms and approached through it and through Room 7 lay the domestic chapel, P1. 43a. It was brick-paved throughout (though in the middle the pavement was much destroyed) and from it at the SE end-rose the altar and "table". The altar consisted of two courses of burnt bricks with mud brick above and was 0.35 m. high, projecting 0.90 m. from the wall. On the same foundations stood the "table", of mud brick with the plaster moulded in panels to imitate wood still standing 1.00 m. high - originally it must have had a top of burnt brick making the total height 1.25 m. Behind the altar there was in the SE wall an incense-hearth in the form of a square recess with open chimney above; the floor of the recess (of burnt brick) was only just above the altar-top, it was 0.30 m. deep and 0.60 m. wide and 0.42 m. high, flat-topped and continued by a chimney 0.27 m. wide which ran to the full height of the standing wall, 2.40 m. (v. PI. 43a.) Under the floor, towards the north-west end of the room, there was a brick vaulted tomb and beside it a larnax burial, both empty, and in front of the "table" was an infant's burial in a terracotta "hutch" coffin virtually flush with the bricks of the pavement.2
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