Thursday, March 24, 2011

Data-Mining: Vismara V - Conclusion on Muller

The following information, Vismara's survey of Mullers earliest excavations (1904-1906) will be critical to our initial phase of reconstruction on this, the best documented of areas.

  • Muller describes a brick lined, barrel-vaulted vestibule averaging 2m wide, and oriented SE-NW. Connected to this vestibule with the same orientation was a staircase, 3m wide.
  • If we accept Vismara's correction to Muller's plan of the regions explored between 1904-1906 (ie. that the image was mirrored, and E/W were inverted), then a few possible areas are indicated.
  • Muller also found remains that suggested to him an upper catacomb that post-dated the lower. Muller describes the area only briefly and provides scant reasoning. Vismara questions his assertions here, which are based on bricks and inscriptions that could have been turned up in landslides, he argues. It does seem that Muller's suspicions of an upper catacomb are more likely a collapsed portion of the same extant catacomb.
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