.bk A6
.fl H630rk.j
.fd excavation diary entries for H627 to H630, pp. 49-56
.ei rk
.ed H630

.rd H628
.ri rK

f 358
ds There is a small rock sitting on a floor ca. 50cm NW of the tannur.
-sg In discussion GB suggested that when removing the accumulation at the SW corner of the room (k22), we should check if the ash layer goes all the way to the wall, or to a layer of plaster (this would allow verification of the existence of plater on the wall which we have found on f78 to the N).

a 31
ds doorway from k22 /room D2 to the N.  It is bounded on the E by wall, f78, on the W by wall . . .  Accumulation still exists in the doorway space and we will not know until that is removed if a floor continues into this doorway or if there is a threshold.
-sf Discussed with DNS procedures for continuing the excavation in k30--removing the rest of the bricky mass, f337, straightening out the W section of the E cut, excavating the "floor" f331. In k22, discussed with BSH as well as the pick men Ibrahim Hallo and Abdul Karim, the situation with the floors there. GB was consulted.

k 22
sg We have seen a layer of gypsum underlying the ashy floor at the base of the depression in the SW corner. This will hereafter be referred to as f370. The multiple, sometimes merging floor levels above it, we will attempt to trace.  This would of significance if any material finds of importance are obtained from these floor deposits. We will leave a section EW midway acroos the room toward the middle of the tannur. This will show the stratification of the floor along with its relationship to the trace of the reeds/straw in the N of the room. We will trace the full extent of that material, its relation to the tannur, and excavate the floors to the gypsum level.

.rd H628

f 337
nr Cutting around the bricky mass revealed the remains of a tannur (see v.  ).  Fragments of the tannur wall are present in the base.  Adjacent to it is something that is most likely is a red structure.  It was crumbly and crumbled like brick and most likely was a brick.  Its regularly shaped sides are an artifact of the pick man's craftsmanship--it was so cut in the process of the excavation.  The tannur itself rested on a crumbly grey-black accumulation.

f 332
nr f332 has been removed in the rest of the locus along the W, being only a step 100S, 170W from the NE corner.