.bk J03
.fl Q827jW.j
.fd Daily journal for Q827
.fn -wk, k23, k22, k109, -sn, -sf -sy
.ei jW
.ed Q827
.rd Q827
.ri jW

-wk All workmen reported except Swar, who was excused due to illness.  Ghandi excused by jO for one hour to attend to personal business.  Mahmood Ismail will arrive late and depart early each day to assist in the distribution and collection of tools at the house.

-sf eDB worked at home for most of the day processing relays and plots.  bL and rE worked at home for two hours each processing the journal.

-sn aA and iI drew the east section of k109 with a string elevation of 9209.

-sy Marker m4320 loosened and removed during excavation of the east baulk of k23.

k 22
H99  In order to help determine whether floor f173 overlaid or was a part of the packed mud glacis, f152, of the temple mound, we took elevations at each corner and the middle.  All elevations were within two centimeters of 9197.  This and the presence of sherds that were laying flat suggest that the surface was a floor separate from the mud glacis.  However, gB looked at the surface of both and determined that they were formed from the same material.  This suggests that they were deposited at the same time and were parts of a single feature.  jW noticed that the sherds in the glacis to the north of the floor were randomly oriented while the sherds of f173 were laying flat.  This does not mean that the surfaces were of differing strata, but rather that people probaly walked on the flat part.  Therefore the better interpretation is that f173 and f152 are part of the same glacis packing, were deposited at the same time, but served somewhat different functions.

k 109
dy Continued to excavate accumulation, f182 to the south in order to follow the packed mud surface, f184 underneath.  gB suggested that we should leave f184 exposed to study the relationship between the large stones, f185 to f188, and the mud surface.  We began to draw the east section of k109 to speed the removal of the east baulk.  We incorporated the north half of k32 into k109 in order to more fully expose the packed mud surface, f184, to the north.  A relative measure of the elevations between f184 and the floor to the northeast in k22, f173, showed that the floor was 60cm higher than the packed mud at those points.

k 22
dy removed the east baulk of the locus.
ns When we reached the gray accumulation in k22, f111, we questioned the relationship among this feature, the packed mud glacis, f152 and the baqaya glacis, f109.  As we traced f109 from k13 to k23 we found that the baqaya extended beneath the packed mud.  Furthermore, f111, previously assumed to be an ashy accumulatiom covering the baqaya, was in fact a continuation of the packed mud to the east.
H99 Therefore it is clear that the packed mud glacis was added atop the baqaya glacis at a later date.
nr As we were establishing the relationship between the packed mud glacis, f152 and the baqaya glacis, f109, we noticed an apparent discontinuity in the baqaya in the far northeast corner of the locus.  A few days earlier, while excavavating with the big pick in the same place, we found an apparently isolated, broken, reddish brick.  During this exploration of the baqaya we noticed in the baulk a brick, f192 that abutted the baqaya, indicating that there may have been a structure either of brick or with a brick foundation at this location.

f 192
ds A single red brick, laid horizontally and seen only in section in the north baulk in the northeast corner of the locus.  Above it may be a pise structure, the possibility of which will be investigated on Q828.

f 190
ds A group of small stones which sit in accumulation, f140, just under the surface in the middle of the east baulk of k23.

f 111
nr This feature consisted of two lenses of grayish material which were seen on the east side and the west side of k13, but not seen in the middle.  They can be clearly seen in both sections and cover the baqaya glacis, f109.  Excavations in the east baulk of k23 show that f111 must be the eastward extension of the mud glacis, f152.  There are two possible explanations for the gap in the middle.  First, since we were excavating with the large pick we may have inadvertently removed it.  This is unlikely because the pickman is highly skilled and excavated in J3 last year.  Second, the mud glacis could have been damaged after abandonment and partially washed away.  This possibility is supported by the large number of high floating stones found in k12 during excavations there in MZ18.
ns This feature is an extension to the east of the mud glacis, f152, found in k23.