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.fd daily journal P829 -wk,-sf,f60,f61,f56,k103
.fn corrections and additions made by jW on Q415
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-wk Three picks and six removal personnel reported for work.  At the end of the day, gB informed the workmen that there would be no field work tomorrow in memoriam of Prof. Pecorella, director of the Tell Bari excavations, who died in a fall from a tall baulk at that site.

-sf jW spent two one-hour periods at home preparing the unit global record.  gM, vS (on loan from J01) and Zuzan spent all day excavating the burials, f60 and f61.  gM will draw the burial using Freehand and a registered photograph of the body to be taken by dM.

f 60
dy Exposed all extant bones that could be identified.  Photographed the body and its context, v22.  Attempted to photograph body to prepare a Freehand drawing of the layout of the grave.  There was not enough light to allow good definition, so we will try again on P831, using reflectors.
H99 faB suggested that some of the characteristics of the body (bones darkened but not charred) and its manner of burial (flexed position in a marked grave) could be explained by the following:  He hypothesized that the BA temple burned in early Akkadian times.  Possibly one or more people were trapped in the ruins and suffocated.  Their bodies were heated in the fire to a temperature less than 300 degress, which darkened the bones.  During the process of cleaning the site the ashes and burned bricks were thrown onto the terrace to serve as fill for a new layer of bakhia.  When the body was discovered it was buried in the usual manner for the time which must have been in the ash with grave goods and a simple marker of stacked burned bricks.

f 61
nr When first encountered, we saw only a long bone protruding from the middle of the south baulk.  Thinking it to be another human bural, possibly connected with a1, we assigned a feature number.  Later, when more was excavated, we found the skull, which was that of a large animal, possibly a dog or a pig.  Now, it is also relatively clear that these bones are not associated with a1.  Thererfore, when excavated, the bones will be designed as item 9, and wrapped into aggregate a2 for further processing.

k 103
dy Continued to excavate the north three-quarters of the locus, removing the laminations, f56.  Put all workmen in this locus to speed work, which is difficult due to the hard, dense nature of the laminations.

f 56
nr At the end of yesterday and today, the laminations became thinner more tightly packed together.  In section they appear as a solid block with no pockets of softer material.  Pottery continues to be relatively sparse, with less than a full bag collected each day for a volume which approaches two cubic meters.  Shapes are ubiquitous and non-diagnostic.