Arabic Diary, Vol.2, p.101

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Thursday, January 1, 1925 (continued)

(2) [Street G] 7200 (continued)

Second: a crew of workmen was working in the exterior temple [i.e. chapel]. They exposed its southern wall; it is built with mud brick. There is a limestone basin to the south of this wall. There is also a channel cut into the rock and running under the mud brick wall. It empties into the basin. It seems that this channel was part of drainage system to drain the rainwater into the limestone basin.
The debris on top of the exterior temple [i.e. chapel] is limestone chips, rubble and sand. This debris is not original. Under this layer, there is another layer of sand, limestone chips, potsherds and mud bricks. There is also a mud brick wall on the east. It is cased with limestone blocks. We have not yet cleared this temple [i.e. chapel] completely.

Third: We moved the railway tracks to the rear a little and started removing the debris of the shafts, which was thrown into the street: those are shaft 7210 B and shaft 7310 B. After removing the debris of these two shafts, we started clearing the street. The debris on the street is dark soil, sand and Roman bricks.
They found in this debris:
1 pottery bowl, missing some fragments
1 fragment of an alabaster cup
1 leg fragment of a granite statuette
1 lid of an alabaster kohl pot
1 flint tool, in the shape of the tongue of a bird [pesesh-kef knife?]
3 fragments of a pottery bowl
1 torso of a faience figurine
1 faience eye-shaped amulet
1 inscribed heart pendant of black stone
1 fragment of a faience figurine
1 fragement of a faience bead
1 faience barrel bead
1 faience bead
1 discoid faience bead
1 discoid faience bead, decorated
1 faience bead, decorated

Under the Roman [i.e. Late Period] debris, there is a layer of original debris. It is a layer of limestone chips, rubble and sand. They found in this layer the head and shoulder of a limestone statuette. They also found the belly area of the statuette; only the lower portion of the statuette is missing. We photographed the fragments in situ. We made sure that we took good pictures before we moved the fragments. This statuette [25-1-47(?)] is incomplete.

(3) [Street G] 7300

There was no work on Street [G] 7300; only removing the debris that came out of shaft 7410 B and shaft 7420 A. We were moving this debris onto the railways.

(4) [Shaft] 7210 B

Gad Al-Maula and a crew of workmen were working on shaft 7210 B. They were removing debris of limestone chips, rubble and sand. They cleared this shaft, and then started removing the debris that is in the passage leading to the burial chamber. Its debris is similar to that of the shaft. They found in the shaft fragments of a large pottery jar and several potsherds.

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