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-eq The third elevator installed in k13 broke before breakfast. I suspect that the reason for this was the dirt leaning against the outer end of the axel at the bottom. The dirt jammed the axel from the outside and thus it broke. In the future, before Balian brings covers for them, we have to make sure that dirt around the elevators do not prevent the axel from turning freely.

-dy By the end of the day we finished removing the back dirt that had piled in k5 before the installation of the elevator.

-sf vVE stayed at the house again.

-wk Juma came back to work.

q 395
ds This q lot from k4 f150 might be contaminated. Some of the dirt loosened in k4 fell onto the steps (f130) and as the workmen were removing soil they also included this soil and things that had fallen onto the steps previously. 

k 4
dy Our intention today was to cut back the southern-most 1 m of k4 that had been left in place last year to due time constraints. However, because our back dirt pile located in k5 was very close to the edge of the southern border of k4, I dedided to go down in k4 while this back dirt was being removed. At the end of the day yesterday we had run into soil that contained ash, charcoal, reddish soil, and perhaps melted pieces of brick. We labeled that feature as f150. Today we started by excavating the first 10 cm of that feature (q393). We then continued with a second 10 cm pick run (q394). The last pile of dirt removed with the latter pick-run was included in q395, which might be contaminated by soil from steps (f131) closed to its edge. Beucase this feature was so clearly different from anything else we had discovered and because it is contained by f131 and capped by f144 and f151, we decided to flag q-lots q393 and q394 for mKB. She came to the field briefly after breakfast and took a look at one of the qlots. She found at least one Mittani sherd in the bag. She also suggested that we should ask vS whether she thinks it would be a good idea to take floating samples from this feature. Based on recommendations and instructions by vS we took three floating samples (q397, q398, and q399) from places where the ash and charcoal concentration was most pronounced. After taking the samples we started removing the last 1 m of soil from the southern portion of k4. We labeled this pseudobaulk as f152 and excavated q-lot q400. We relayed the large, flat stone (f154) overlaying f131 with the idea that it might be removed at some point.
ar The ashy, red accumulation f150 in front of the steps of the apron f131 could perhaps be associated with and related to the same activities that the large, flat stone f154 was used. gB and mKB suggested that the f154 could perhaps be an offering stone and perhaps f150 shows the use this area was put to while the stone (f154) was used.
sg At the moment the ashy layers of f150 seem to be capped by the line or wall of stones (f144) and a group of smaller stones (f151) near the NW corner of k4. One of the purposes for removing the pseudobaulk (f152) is to see how f144 relates to the apron f131, to the stone feature f154, and to the soil feature f150. We hope to accomplish this tomorrow.

k 13
dy We did not excavated here today since the elevator is located in this unit.

k 100
dy We alternatively worked below in the trench digging collapse with big picks and collapsing more from the top
sg gB and fAB calculated that in order to make k100 safe we should move back 270cm at the top of the section, and for every 90 cm of horizontal movement we should go down 200 cm. The ledges would thus be 50 cm in width. In order to accomplish this we need bP to set up one line on each side of k100 parallel to its edges. Until this has been accomplished we will dig along a 1 m wide stretch along the egde.

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f 150
ar The ashy, red accumulation f150 in front of the steps of the apron f131 could perhaps be associated with and related to the same activities that the large, flat stone f154 was used.
 
f 154
ar gB and mKB suggested that the f154 could perhaps be an offering stone and perhaps f150 shows the use this area was put to while the stone (f154) was used.