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.fd Daily journal for Q911
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-wk All assigned workmen reported.  Ramadan excused by fAB and departed at 7:00.

-eq Elevator worked well throughout the day, but a lack of trailers to haul dirt caused some delays in removal.

-sf eDB worked at home for most of the day processing data.  mO will depart the excavation tomorrow.

k 108
dy Starting at the east end of the locus, we began to excavate an E-W trench 60cm wide and 200cm long through floor f148 to expose the south face of monumental wall, f11 to a depth of about 60 cm.  After exposing the face, we excavated the top to expose the stone components on it.
sg Tomorrow we will extend the trench farther to the west and when operations with the elevator permit, extend the trench to the south until it intersects with the north face of the north baulk of k93.  We must to this so that the full extent of the wall face can be seen from the observation platform.

k 109
dy We continued to remove f247, eventually reaching a softer, more brown accumulation, f253.  We then laid out an E-W trench that was one meter wide along the probable line of the monumental wall so that we can expose the top and south face and began to excavate there.

k 23
dy As we began to remove the packed mud, f152 that covered the mud glacis, f123 we began to see several red bricks upon which was what appeared to be a large pot smash.  We designated the matrix surrounding the sherds f252, and began to remove it and the sherds.  Almost immediately we recovered a seal impression, followed by a number of others, all under the ceramic.  To the south of the bricks was an area of lamination in the general shape of a rectangularly-cut pit.
H99 A preliminary analysis of the seal impressions indicates that they were of the Uruk period, heretofore not found at Mozan.  The sherds atop the seal impressions were assessed by mKB to be Late Chalcolithic.  The bricks, f28 , covered the baqaya glacis, f109, and abutted the mud glacis, f123.  We presume that since generally red bricks deteriorate rapidly, they were laid at the same time as the mud glacis, f123, Phase 11.  The laminations, f   , covered the fill of a pit, a10, which was dug into both the mud glacis and baqaya glacis.  The fill was very clean, only containing a few sherds.  The most likely explanation for the stratigraphic inversion is that the pit was dug in Phase 6, into packed fills (which came from elsewhere on or near the tell) below the baqaya.  These fills have consistently been dated to the Late Chalcolithic, Phase 1 or earlier.  Material from digging the pit was dumped atop the brick surface of the mound and was covered quickly by loess, so that it stayed in place.