TAA i.3.23.24

help the work a tenacious mud mortar is employed. The vault-

bricks are keyed with small stones or potsherds wedged into 

the upper gap of the joints, and the vault when completed 

is closed by a similar wall carried up at the opposite end 

of the building. This manifestly explains the upright pieces 

at the ends of the vaulted roof covering this shrine.

          The two side sections of the under-structure, which comprise each 

a top rail forming the chief beam or frieze, a broad panel, and 

a bottom dado rail, have their vertical ends clamped, and 

the pairs of single tenons fitted on the ends of the horizontal boards 

are cut sufficiently long so as to pass through the vertical 

mortised clamps and protrude for insertion into corresponding 

mortise holes sunk into the styles of the corner posts of the back 

and front sections. Their meeting edges are rebated (see Fig. ...).

          The back end sections differs slightly in construction from the 

side sections. Although the chief beam or frieze, the panel, and 

the dado, are tenoned to the corner posts, their vertical clamps 

form part of the style of the corner posts (see Fig. ...).

          (Fig. ...) clearly shows the construction of the front end section, and 

the manner in which the doors are constructed is also given in Fig …/<is explained above (p. ... & Fig. ...).>

Fastened to the centre of the meeting styles of the doors were two silver 

coated copper staples. These were intended for securing the doors when