Tamid 28B

ולא היו שומעין את קולו, עד שהיו שומעין קול העץ שעשה בן קטין מוכני לכיור. והן אומרים: הגיע עת! קידש ידיו ורגליו מן הכיור, נטל מחתת הכסף ועלה לראש המזבח.

nor could they hear the sound of his steps. They were therefore unaware of his progress until they heard the sound of the wood that ben Katin crafted into a mechanism [mukhani] of pulleys that was used to sink the Basin into flowing water during the night, so that its water would not be disqualified by remaining overnight. When the priests heard the sound of the pulleys raising the Basin from the water, they said to each other: The time for sanctifying hands and feet has come. The priest sanctified his hands and his feet with water from the Basin after he raised it. He then took the silver coal pan from the corner between the ramp and the altar, and ascended to the top of the altar.

פינה את הגחלים הילך, חותה את המאוכלות הפנימיות. ירד הגיע לרצפה, הפך פניו לצפון, הולך במזרחו של כבש כעשר אמות. צבר את הגחלים על גבי הרצפה רחוק מן הכבש שלשה טפחים, מקום שנותנים מוראת העוף, ודישון מזבח הפנימי, ודישון המנורה.

The priest cleared the upper layer of coals to this side and to that side and scooped into the coal pan the inner coals that were completely consumed. He then descended the ramp. When he reached the floor, in the southeast of the Temple courtyard, he turned his face toward the north. He would walk along the east side of the ramp toward the south side of the altar, walking a distance of about 10 cubits from the bottom of the ramp, which was 20 cubits from the altar. He then heaped the coals upon the floor in a location 3 handbreadths distant from the ramp, in the place where the priests would place the crop of the bird burnt offering, the ashes removed from the inner, golden altar, and the ashes removed from the Candelabrum.