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.rd G806
.ri rK

f 220
dy The top of f220 in line with f142 top 2 cm very ashy and black; but that cleared up very soon.

f 221
ds is quite ashy except in parts containing brickfall. The ashy deposition against the wall face continues more than 45 cm from its uppermost levels observed (parallel to f177). In the doorway f217, the ash at the top (at the levels of f177) is completely separated from the lower levels of ash by intervening accumulation.

i 175
ds This is either a badly worn lump of clay or a sealing with cuneiform. The surface is worn.

q 678.2
ds Soil sample: Greenish accumulation, collected mainly with the intent of metal analysis, not botanical.  This was collected from the part of f221 that showed much ash. In fact, the men excavating the feature with a handpick had exposed a surface which seemed to have generated the ash, but there was no stone or charcoal or other deposit on the top of that surface. The surface had greenish ash as did part of the accumulation in this feature.

f 215
ds This accumulation clearly had more carbon in it than f211. But there was not more ash.
-dy f215, f220 (the little so far excavated) show evidence of chunks of carbon. Could it be at the time pertaining to these floors that the roof of the building was lost (and not replaced?). We do find more outside kind of use above these levels. jO joins me in raising this question.

f 210
dy No evidence of plaster on the stone layer of f210 where we removed accumulation f211 to f215. In fact f210 differs from f78 in that the stone layers are wider than the brick at the top whereas in f78 the lower brick layers overhang the stones.

f 215
dy E in the middle of f215 close to the NW corner of the previous A8 locus, there was some kind of a working floor. An incomplete circular bricky outline could be observed in the ground. Material to the E was harder, but so was mot of the accumulation E of here, to the wall f210, at this level and above.  There were pieces of carbonized wood, a few bones. But there was not the extent and amount of ash one would associate with a tannur. Its outline on the floor still remains, but we removed the hard accumulation to the E of it. This area had been observed when excavating f211 as an area of orange bricky surface below with carbon and ash, but tracing it by removing the  accumulation above was not productive.  We did begin excavation on G805 by attempting to trace it, considering the possibility that it might be the top of the brick paving f142 if it extended Eastward and sloped up. E of this area, close to the wall f210, there was a large bone, more or less upright in the accumulation, but it was cut off by the shovel as the excavated earth was being removed; its stump remains in the accumulation.

-dy We are concluding our operation in k22. The highest level in the locus, except for a short pedestal to the SW of doorway f217, and untouched this season, belongs to f215. There has been no layer of f215 removed in k22 where it remains. All of f215 has been removed along the middle of the locus in an EW strip corresponding to the exposed width of wall f210 and the cut in A8. On either side of this strip, all of f215 remains.

f 220
dy This feature was cut as an approximately 20 cm wide trench down to the depth of the top layer of brick in f142, ca. 13 cm.

f 215
dy has been cut to an average depth of 10 cm in the middle of the locus.
ds Approx. 12 cm above the top of f215, in what was removed as f211, is a red line along the E baulk.  The accumulation below is slightly more pink, that above more gray. This is not detectable along the S baulk/accumulation left on the wall f200, but extends somewhat toward the E to f210. The second cut in f211, thus may belong more correctly with f215.

f 217
ds doorway shows rabbeting on the S face.

f 200
ds There is still accumulation left on the N face of the wall. It had been left to protect the brick face and has not been completely removed at the conclusion of the excavation.