Errors

September 2011 - F. Buccellati
August 2012 - L. Crescioli
The home for this page is A16
Introduction
Form
Record
Judgment

Introduction

     see MZ

     A16 is the oldest book that has been made to comply to the current UGR standards; it was the primary book that was used to test the programs that produced the UGR. These various permutations of the programs required slightly different input formats, and these changes meant that some of the problems were amplified while others were resolved. Additionally, the several input formats meant that several of the files were copied, in whole or in part, thereby creating multiple entries with the same information.
     A further factor which lead to the number of errors in the data is the large quantity of information collected over two seasons of excavation. The volume of material excavated over the two years was considerable: 8 initial loci meant that the footprint was 10m x 20m, covering thus 200m2 and there was an additional small locus along the western side of the unit along the border with A10. The estimated total cubic volume is 350m3, and this is a conservative estimate. As for the chronological span, the latest material dates to the Khabur levels while the earliest dates to phase 2, the construction level of the palace. As such, A16 spans nearly the complete diachronic sequence present in the AA area of Mozan. All of these are indicators of the large quantity of data present in the current volume. This large quantity of data also contributed to the quantity of errors that arose in the processing of the data; thus while there might be more errors in number than in other books, they are still relatively few as a percentage of the total data.
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Form

     Some of the errors present in the record are the result of changing practices in documentation over the years. The main problems focus on the digital photographs and the use of relays. The use of digital photography has developed considerably over the years, primarily in labeling of the files and their integration into the UGR, the use of views and the view log, and the creation of templates. Relays were used less frequently in defining excavated volumes, resulting primarily in the lack of precise volumetric data tied to the pottery collection lots.
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Record

     The following are a list of errors still present in the record, as compiled by Yasmine Mahmood in September 2011, and revised by Lorenzo Crescioli during July-August 2012. These will be corrected in future as much as possible, but for now current focus is on completing the interpretitive portions present in the left hand side.

Aggregates

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Features

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Items

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Loci

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k102 all relevant records
k103 all relevant records
k104 all relevant records
k107 all relevant records
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All the loci do not have a relay measurements except for k109, k111 and k112.

Q-items

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q22.5 definition and description
q22.51 description see q22.50
q22.53 all relevant informations see q22.50
q97.1 measurements
q117.5 measurements
q251.1 measurements
q257.1 measurements and description note from lC
q271.1 measurements and description
q274.2 measurements and description note from lC
q371.1 measurements and description
q472.1 measurements
q529.1 description
q539.2 description

Q-lots

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q171-q184 completely missing Q-log was entered?
q191-231 completely missing Q-log was entered?

Most of the qlots are missing the horizontal definition.

Relays

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r44-r53 completely missing
r61 completely missing
r63 completely missing
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r101-r125 completely missing
r127-175 completely missing
r197-r198 completely missing
r282 completely missing
r294-r298 completely missing
r308-r325 completely missing

Views

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v111 all relevant records
v115 completely missing
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v132 completely missing

Some formal discrepancies
     Under the pottery description of the right hand side, some formal scattered discrepancies can be recorded. They concern two main aspects: the code of the vessel shape and the measurement of the rim diameter. These differences are due to the presence of two different professional figures: the draftsman and the analyser. The differences are usually minimal, 2-4 cms in the rim diameter, and small variant in the shape description.The difference in diameter is due to a minimal difference in the inclination of the sherd when measured. The differences in shape description are usually related to very small sherds, difficult to be reconstructed in the original shape. Sometimes the discrepancy is due to changes in the codes format, happened during the years. The discrepancies are generally minor and slight, and usually do not affect a right understanding of the single sherd, since the drawing is present.
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Judgment

     While many staff members have worked on the data present in this publication, any errors are the responsibility of the authors.
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