7/27/06 Today marked the opening of the locus E662 tomb construction on the south side of T2E. We began with the removal of the stone "door"? or "gate"? on the southern wall of the construction in an attempt to divine whether the installation was filled with sandy fill, or empty. The door removal and subsequent cleaning revealed two solid (possibly limestone) doorposts and a threshold stone which we took time to photograph when clean. We (ATS, Ruben, and I were in T2E all day with fewer workers, Ganel and Emil) then examined the capstones closely in order to develop a systematic removal. The flat stone on the northern side of the tomb seemed to be the best candidate as it had already significantly fractured, followed by the more "vertical"? stone between the flat capstone and the lentil. We took out several small stones on top of the capstones followed by the two aforementioned capstones. We took particular care not to disturb the small stones around the exterior of the tomb, perhaps representing the top of the stone cist/chamber walls. Under the capstones we encountered between 30 and 50 centimeters of sandy (colluvial) fill under which we began to clean a single EB1 vessel in the chamber's NW corner. Under the vessel we began to clean numerous human bones and all afternoon we cleaned bones from their high point at the chamber's northern end towards the lower deposit of skeletal material on the south side, almost all the way to the door stone. As we cleaned southward it became apparent that while the rear of the tomb seemed to consist of haphazardly stacked human bones (locus E670) and ceramics vessel(s), the southern portion of the chamber contained an articulated skeleton (locus E679) in front of the 'door.' Between the two bone loci we discovered a large jar (closer to the northern wall) and a small cup just north of the articulated skull 20cm from the door threshold.