But a more minute examination will show that the symbolisation on the floor is so arranged that a definite effect is produced.

See, here the writings run in correct order as though they had jumped across the gap.

It is only from certain effects that it becomes clear that there is a meaning of some kind.

What that meaning may be is what we want to know.

Look at the top and bottom of the vacant space, which lies West and East corresponding to the head and foot of the sarcophagus.