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been allowed to burn out without being smothered. The smooth, 
black glossy floor did not continue underneath the altar. Adjoining 
the altar on the south and level with its rim was a hard-packed clay 
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Fig. 159.—Diagram of mound No. 2 at second level 
platform, out of which a cavity had originally been scooped and 
lined with puddled clay, thus forming an altar bowl. 
Adjoining the altar on the north was a bed of mingled ashes, earth, 
and charcoal, as if the ashes of the altar had been raked out on this 
