270http://www165.123.244.137/location/270/LocusNo. 1 Church Lane Context TitleRoom 4Context Name (Publication)Room 4Imported from BM list of contexts.Context DescriptionSanctuaryImported from BM list of contexts.Context DescriptionRoom 4, the sanctuary; the threshold was raised by a single course of bricks, the floor was brick-paved; in the NW wall, facing the entrance, was a niche of which the lower part was filled by a base of mud brick, plastered with mud and whitewashed, on which stood a limestone statue of the goddess, U.16424, Pls. 52a and 56a. The statue had been broken in antiquity and roughly mended with bitumen and the feet were missing, so that the lower part of the figure was embedded in the mud base to keep it in position. The sanctuary had been closed by a light door consisting of a plain wooden frame with panels of straight reed stems set vertically; it had of course decayed away completely, but the imprint of it left in the soil was astonishingly clear (PI. 51b). The hinge-pole, 0.095 m. diam., was against the inner corner of the NE jamb and rested on a hollowed brick; the flap of the door was 0.15 m. above pavement level, so as to clear the raised threshold; the width of the flap was 1.12 m., the bottom board of the frame was 0.22 m. wide, the sides of the frame apparently 0.04 m.; there were in the panel thirty three reed stems with an average diameter of 0.03 m. and the whole was preserved to a height of 1.05 m.UE 7 p.1271189http://www165.123.244.137/location/1189/LocusNo. 15 Church LaneContext TitleRoom 1Context Name (Excavation)Room 1