| MZA phase |
AAC phase |
AAB strata |
AAC strata |
definition of stratum and of substratum |
| 9m | 6b | 1 | 1 | surface wash and erosion |
| 2 | 2 | sod layer, top soil | ||
| 3 | 3 | disturbed upper layer | ||
| 4 | 4 | removal of ancient stones; gully wash; laminations | ||
| 5 | 5 | modern burials | ||
| 8? | 6a | - | 6 | ancient wadi |
| - | 7 | brick decomposition | ||
| 6c | 5c | 6 | 8 | houses |
| a | great brick fall | |||
| b | erosion and subsequent cut | |||
| c | abandonment | |||
| d | accumulations | |||
| e | minor rebuilding | |||
| 9 | houses | |||
| a | higher accumulation within houses | |||
| b | tumuli burials | |||
| c | leveling; construction and first floors; A15-16 street | |||
| 6b | 5b | 7 | 10 | houses |
| a | higher accumulations within houses | |||
| b | constrcution and first floors | |||
| 6a | 5a | 11 | scattered extra-mural occupation: not directly related to house use | |
| a | A15: burials, small pit; pottery kilns; tannurs; fragments of walls and hard accumulation in South |
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| b | late dumping in depression | |||
| c | depression for mudbrick pitting | |||
| d | early dumping in widened pits and depression | |||
| 12 | scattered (extramural) occupation: directly related to house use | |||
| a | storage pits (large) | |||
| b | (A15: pottery kilns) | |||
| 13 | scattered (extramural) occupation: house related | |||
| a | burials | |||
| b | storage pits (small) | |||
| c | pebble lenses, retaining walls (A16 bottom of brown wall) | |||
| 5h | 4b | 8 | 14 | scattered (extramural) occupation: house related |
| a | tannurs | |||
| b | late dumping in depression | |||
| c | pebble lenses, retaining walls (A16 bottom of brown wall) | |||
| 9 | 15 | scattered (extramural) occupation: house related | ||
| a | storage pits (small) | |||
| b | pebble lenses, retaining walls (A16: no retaining walls) | |||
| 5c | 4a | 10 | 16 | scattered (extramural) occupation: house related |
| a | burials | |||
| 11 | 17 | first reshaping of surface after abandonment of palace | ||
| a | accumulations | |||
| b | leveling and retaining berms | |||
| 4m | 3 | 12-15 | 18-21 | (non-existent – or thin accumulation in paved courtyard) |
| 16 | 22 | A16: jar smash, thin accumulation in paved courtyard (or s19-21?); A15: higher well in room H6; wall blocking southern end of H4; floor north of same wall |
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| 4c | 2 | 17a-b | 23a-b | (non-existent) |
| 17c | 23c | A16: stone pavement, baked bricks as sub-pavement, red packing A15: lower well in H6; stone “blob” in south l |