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Context Description:
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Room 4, a chapel, opened out from the NW side of the court, an unusual position; its somewhat irregular shape makes it likely that there had been alterations and that this was once two rooms now turned into one by the demolition of a wall continuing south-westwards, the back wall of Room 11. It was paved with bricks 0.27 m. sq., many of which had been pulled up; the walls, with seven courses of burnt brick, stood to 2.40 m. In the north corer was a brick base 0.40 m. high on which stood a "table" 0.55 m. sq. and 0.85 m. high; the front, which had suffered greatly, was decorated in relief with what seems to have been the normal panel design, but on the side was preserved a curious design recalling the "honey-comb" pendentives of Moslem art; (P1. 46a, and Fig. 40A). At the NW end of the room the paving was raised by one course to make a dais, and on this the altar should have stood, but there was no trace of it; possibly it had been of mud brick. In the NE wall was a door to Room 5; over the original threshold was mud brick to a height of 0.80 m. on which, on the side of Room 5, rested a single course of burnt brick; it was presumably therefore a raising of the threshold and not a blocking of the door.2
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