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-wk Three pickmen and five in support reported for work.

-sf Students Zuzann and Ismail did not report for work.  gM spent most of the morning at home preparing templates and files in anticipation of the unit review.

-dy Exploring for the interface of the temple terrace, f50, and the monumental wall, f11, surrounding it in k12.  In doing so we had to remove one large stone, f55, originally thought to have been floating, but now, based on the stratigraphy of its foundation, almost certainly a part of the W end of the second millennium wall apron, f10.  Encountered medium sized cut stones along what should be the N face of f11, but we are still uncertain as to whether this is the third millennium face or part of a second millennium mocification.  The terrace intersects these stones, but we do not yet know whether the terrace continues on underneath them.  In k103 we continued to excavate the first accumumlation, f53, under the topsoil, f52.  Two large stones in an E-W line, f54, along with some smaller ones, are sitting in f53.  At present the function is unclear.  At home in the afternoon, the suite of programs to produce the Urkesh Global Record was fully run with all data files to date.  Only the photography files failed to integrate.  gB is investigating this.  Finished preparations for the Stratigraphic and Unit Progress Review scheduled for tomorrow afternoon, P824.

f 55
H99 We originally thought that this large stone was one of a number of unfounded floating stones to the north of monumental wall, f11.  However, in light of the fact that the layers underneath are similar to those under the extant stones of apron, f10, immediately to the east of f55, this stone may well have been part of the apron's western end.
P1 We removed f55 with great reluctance on P823 after relaying it.  It was removed in order to provide a place to excavate a test trench, k104, behind the monumental wall, f11, to see explore how the wall and the temple BA mound were constructed.