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.fd daily journal for N823
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.rd N823
.ed N823
.ei jw

-wk all assigned workmen reported as well as a few from the general detail who are cleaning the entire site and removing the backfill for photography.

-dy today we focused on finding the extent and the boundaries of the brick pavement f558 discovered yesterday in k3.  To that end we continued to remove the remnants of later phase platforms f214 and f208, as well as the accumulations between the east side of platform f214 and the west face and foundation of wall f520.  We also removed the east "wall" of the platform.  As we excavated in the area to the east of platform we discovered foundation stones for another wall underneath and aligned more easterly than the foundation stones for f520.  In k4 we removed several large stones that overlaid part of the burial a40 and removed the rest of the human remains.  An intact Khabur pot was found in a corner that had been covered by the stone.  In k3 we continued to excavate the accumulation that overlays the damaged plaster floor of room a41.  In k94 we continued to search for the foundation stones for walls on the north edge of the locus.  At the end of the day we began to clear accumulation away from the large collection of stones in the southern part of k4.  A small workforce under the direction of Muhammad Omo will continue to clean and remove debris from atop those stones.  In addition, they will remove the chuwals that served as steps for removing dirt as well as the spoils from the last half hour of excavation today.

-sg gb met several times during the day with ms and jw to revise plans for the final day of excavation.  Our efforts will focus on defining the possible architecture in the southen part of k4 that is linked to the brick paving f558.  To do that we will follow the floor to its southern, western and eastern limits. We must remove a small lump of accumulation atop a N-S line of stones which may form the western boundary for the paving.  We will contine to define the southern face of the E-W line of stones f550 which we believe bound the paving on the south.  We will follow the paving to the north to see whether it is bounded by wall f520 or by the wall whose foundation is f562.  We will follow the stones of f520 to the south to see where that wall turns and the function, if any of the narrow bricky strip, f433.

k 93
dy Ramadan determined that no stones link the E-W wall f537 with the north face of a N-S wall immediately to the south (it may be a continuation of wall f563).  He found that the first two stones are deeply founded on a matrix of fill and small stones about one meter below the top.  In addition, he found two large stones at the lower elevation f565 that are further to the east than the corner should be and not in line with either wall, but their function is problematic.

k 2
dy Muhammad Kher 1 continued to clear accumulation f553 from atop floor f554.  He found several more seal impressions and very little pottery. jw determined that floor f554 and the surface f535 where one would have stepped down from the brick paving to enter it are at the same elevation, 8542.

k 3
dy Stef and Sa'ud removed stones atop the burial a37 and removed the last of the remains i295.  One Khabur pot, i336, dates it to Phase 5.  They continued to clear packing from atop the brick pavement f558.  All available workmen assisted in dismantling the east wall f564 of platform f214.  Muhammad Kher 2 discovered a N-S line of stones f562 under the foundation for wall f520.  It was unusual in that it was offset to the east (looking north) from the alignment of other walls of the palace.

k 3
dy Stef and Yestafad removed platform f208 after we determined that the surface stones were not deeply founded.  Then, Muhammed Kher began to remove the accumulation f560 beneath.

f 559
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f 560
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f 561
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f 562
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f 563
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f 564
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ds East wall of platform f214 in k4. Built of an amalgam of materials, ranging from soil, to huge stones, to baked bricks.  It was built directly atop floor f559.
nd jw concluded that this wall was built after floor f559 went out of use. This is because the floor starts 5m to the west and runs about 1m past it to the east.
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f 565
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