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 |
| 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
|
| 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
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