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Introduction
For our approach to volumetry see the relevant section in the Grammar.
J1 is constituted of a very extended area, counting about 19 regular (5x5 m) squares (loci). 4 loci belong to the first season and have been inglobed in the new oriented grid (Chronicle). 5 loci have been included in J5 since 2008. The total surface is about 400 squared meters.
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Overall loci map
This map shows the regular loci (k7, k9, k10, k11) used during the first excavation season (2003) oriented following the North, and all the other loci following the orientation of the Temple Terrace.
The map also shows the first special loci k101, k102 small tranches excavated by the team of Peter Pfälner in 200??, and k103 made in order to follow the face of the revetment wall and to reach its bottom.
The sections below will show the loci used for each season. It is impossible to show all of them at the same time because they were over-shaped.
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Main loci (squares)
The regular loci have been used only during 2003-2006 excavation, then the deepness of the excavation required to re-modell the J1 area for safety reasons, in a theatre shape, where only new special loci were used. The regular loci (k7, k9, k10, k11) have been used in 2003, while loci k2-k41 between 2005 and 2006.
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Special loci
For the first time during 2005 season the theatre shape of the excavation unit started to be set up. At the beginning the squares were located next to the revetment wall because the goal was to reach the level of the Plaza close to it (k107-k111). From 2006 it was started to enlarge the area because we tried to give the ancient perception of the wall and the terrace from a slightly bigger distance (k112-k118). In 2008 the excavation was concentrated at the bottom of the wall to look for the construction of the escarpments and to check eventual earlier levels (k119-k128). After the recovery of the stucture in k128, the 2009 season looked for the earlier structure and the possible LC mound(k127-k132).
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