Phase 1^AAC within Unit A20

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Stratigraphy

We did not reach any levels that could properly be attributed to phase 1. However, the pits dug in later phases reached beneath the level of the courtyard, and exposed earlier strata, which are now visible only in the very limited sections exposed by the bottom of these pits. See in particular pit a22 (presumably cut in phase 4), and a28, a cluster of pits dug either in phase 4 or phase 5.

The baked bricks showing below some of these later intrusions (a24 and in the section of f216, may potentially belong to phase 1, but are more likely to constitute a substructure (such as a tank) built at the same time as the stone courtyard.

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Typology

It is especially in some of the sealings that one may recognize, typologically, EDIII or early Akkadian traits. It may be assumed that they were brought up from the earlier strata when the pits broke the seal created by the courtyard pavement.