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.fd daily journal N724
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-sg meeting with gb, fab, jo, jw, ms. Decide to take down gray accumulation seen in section of north kiln in k13. Will see where red level goes. In k5 we will leave jars in the ground until entire room is exposed. This requires taking down the baulk. MKB suggest we stop exposing vessels until entire room is exposed. 

k 5
dy continue excavating f411 and exposing more jars, large and small. Still no floor seen although we may only be 10 cm above possible floor. At very end of the day we started coming upon charcoal and possible burnt wood. Will look further on Saturday. Unclear about purpose of room. SB suggests it may be a storage room. One of the jars, i237, is like a jar found in F1 and dated to Old Akkadian. This would give this area a ph3 date. Any floor would be below the sherd/stone floor, f208 of MZ14. We have named this area aggregate 34. To west of wall f413, in accumulation f397, we are still unclear what is going on. We may have a differentiation between the area that is adjacent to wall f413 and the half that abuts the baulk. We have given these two new feature numbers and will excavate seperately until differentiation is clearer. f422 is west of the wall f413 and is a grayer material with sherds. West of this is f423. There are more inclusions and may have been the remnants of a pit or fill.

k 15
dy took down the remaining piece of n baulk and also removed pebble lens f409. It did not extend into the baulk at all. We went down in f407, the accumulation throughout the locus. We cleaned and scraped well to get any type of differentiation. Pit f412 seems to continue but we may be at the end of it. There seems to be an additional gray lens to the south and there may be a different, browner accumulation in the e of the locus but total differentiation is unclear. Will look further on Saturday and determine whether new feature numbers are needed.

k 14
dy this area, f372 is at a higher elevation than k13 and we need to bring it down to be more even throughout. We may begin to work from the clay bin, f155 to the east towards the stones to see how much further the bin continues. We should see the connection between k15 and k14 on Saturday. We also removed the lining from the south kiln which is partially in k13. The kiln lining is f421.

k 13
dy removed the small portion of the pit, f415 that was seen horizonatally at this level. Also went down further in f416 the accumulation that is similar to f373 but which seems to cut it. We have named the gray accumulation seen in section in the north kiln f420. We are excavating this down to the level of the orange bricky material. This level is very thick in section at the w edge of the kiln and gets progressively less thin to the east. We have already exposed a portion of this orange bricky material, f417 to the south of the kiln and are thinking this might be where the kiln begins. There are varying theories as to whether the kiln is the orange material and is put there, or whether it is cut by the kiln from above. Hopefully we will have an answer when f420 is removed. We continued removing f373 where it is still left in this locus.