category | 2020-8-20 | jW | fill, dumping, collapse | [Input File: ZE820jW.j] |
definition (typological label) | 2010-9-13 | jW | fill | [Input File: Ux05jW.j] |
summary | 2012-10-07 | jW | Fill in k110 under EDIII glacis f109 and LC3 glacis f368. | [Input File: Wx07jW1.j] |
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description (summary) | 2010-9-13 | jW | This fill had many of the same characteristics of the baqaya above. It was hard, came off in sheets, contained calcite inclusions, and was reddish in color. It is posssible that it is the remains of a prior glacis. It is also possible that it is fill to transition from a flat surface to the sloping surface of the f109 glacis. Due to the surface hardness, we could not determine the orientation of the relatively large number of sherds recovered. (Random orientation would imply fill or coating, while a horizontal orientation would imply accumulation above a floor.) In the far NE corner there is a N-S line of baqaya, which may be bricks. | [Input File: U914jW.j] |
2010-10-07 | jW | Fill beneath and sealed by the baqaya glacis, f109 and f50 (exposed in MZ19 and MZ20). It covered the what most likely was a previous glacis, f368, which in turn covered the major LC3 wall segment, f348. Ceramics within were all from the Late Chalcolithic 3 period, but the time of deposition may be from the Later Early Dynastic period when the revetment wall, f11, was built. Fill, f346, may have been applied as part of a remodel of the BA Temple mound using soil already there. | [Input File: V206jW.j] |
argument | 2010-9-14 | jW | One issue with this feature is whether it is a floor accumulation above f348, or fill added to change the shape the BA temple mound from steps to a slope. Two observations indicate that it is a fill. First, pavement f348 is relatively level while the thickness of f346 increases from south to north, matching the shape of the extant mound. Second, the orientation of sherds we could identify in situ were randomly oriented, the largest being aligned vertically. |
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m#/elev @top | 2010-9-13 | jW | 9236 | [Input File: Ux05jW.j] |
m#/elev @bottom | 2010-9-13 | jW | 9206 | [Input File: Ux05jW.j] |
type of contact: latest events | 2012-4-14 | jW | f109 (glacis) covers f346 (fill) | [Input File: W414jW.j] |
2012-4-14 | jW | f347 (rodent hole) intrudes f346 (fill) | [Input File: W414jW.j] | |
2012-4-14 | jW | f350 (pit cut) intrudes f346 (fill) | [Input File: W414jW.j] | |
type of contact: contemporary events/movable items | 2010-9-15 | jW | i27 (seal impression) sits in f346 (fill) | [Input File: Ux05jW3.j] |
2010-9-14 | jW | q413 (pottery) sits in f346 (fill) | [Input File: Ux05jW2.j] | |
2010-9-15 | jW | q414 (pottery) sits in f346 (fill) | [Input File: Ux05jW2.j] | |
2010-9-13 | jW | q410 (p, i) sits in f346 (fill) | [Input File: Ux05jW2.j] | |
2010-9-13 | jW | q411 (p, b, i) sits in f346 (fill) | [Input File: Ux05jW2.j] | |
2010-9-16 | jW | q417 (p, i) sits in f346 (fill) | [Input File: Ux05jW2.j] | |
2010-9-16 | jW | q418 (p, i) sits in f346 (fill) | [Input File: Ux05jW2.j] | |
2010-9-13 | jW | q410.1 (shell) sits in f346 (fill) | [Input File: Ux05jW2.j] | |
2010-9-13 | jW | q411.1 (blade) sits in f346 (fill) | [Input File: Ux05jW2.j] | |
2010-9-14 | jW | q413.4 (shell) sits in f346 (fill) | [Input File: Ux05jW2.j] | |
2010-9-16 | jW | q417.1 (blade) sits in f346 (fill) | [Input File: Ux05jW2.j] | |
2010-9-16 | jW | q417.2 (polishing stone) sits in f346 (fill) | [Input File: Ux05jW2.j] | |
2010-9-16 | jW | q417.3 (grinding stone) sits in f346 (fill) | [Input File: Ux05jW2.j] | |
2010-9-16 | jW | q417.4 (blade) sits in f346 (fill) | [Input File: Ux05jW2.j] | |
2010-9-16 | jW | q417.5 (blade) sits in f346 (fill) | [Input File: Ux05jW2.j] | |
2010-9-16 | jW | q418.1 (blade) sits in f346 (fill) | [Input File: Ux05jW2.j] | |
type of contact: earliest events | 2012-4-14 | jW | f346 (fill) covers f368 (glacis) | [Input File: W414jW.j] |
stratum (to which element belongs) | 2012-9-09 | jW | s650bJ3B | [Input File: W909jW.j] |
stratigraphic reasons of assignment | 2012-10-07 | jW | Covered by the baqaya glacis, f109 and f50, which because of their association (protects the top from erosion) with the main revetment wall, f11, are dated to the EDIII period. f346 may be either the remains of earlier glacis or fill to make a smooth transition from an older glacis, f368, to f109. This stratum assignment assumes that it is EDIII fill. | [Input File: Wx07jW.j] |
typological reasons for assignment | 2012-10-07 | jW | As in many features in this part of the excavation unit, the ceramics within the feature date to the Late Chalcolithic period. | [Input File: Wx07jW.j] |
other reasons, reservations, qualifications | 2012-10-07 | jW | Our current understanding of the dichotomy is that except for the baqaya, which is clean sub-soil taken from outside the tell, most of the material used for fills ws obtained from the BA temple mound itself, which at the time of construction of the extant revetment wall and glacis was covered with soil containing LC ceramics, ahaving not been occupied between the periods. | [Input File: Wx07jW.j] |
phase (to which element belongs) | 2012-9-09 | jW | h3mJ3B | [Input File: W909jW.j] |
strata (included within phase) | 2012-10-07 | jW | s650bJ3B | [Input File: Wx07jW.j] |
review of ceramics | 2010-9-15 | mKB | Dates to Late Chalcolithic 3 | [Input File: U915mKB.j] |
2010-9-13 | jW | A preliminary analysis of the ceramics by mKB, dated this feature to the LC3 period. | [Input File: U914jW.j] |
ware or material | 2010-9-13 | jW | so | [Input File: Ux05jW.j] |
color | 2010-9-13 | jW | pale red | [Input File: Ux05jW.j] |
color number (Munsell) | 2010-9-13 | jW | 7.5YR 6/3 | [Input File: Ux05jW.j] |
hardness, compaction | 2010-9-13 | jW | >5 | [Input File: Ux05jW.j] |
texture, surface finish | 2010-9-13 | jW | plaster-like | [Input File: Ux05jW.j] |
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removed, discarded, missing | 2010-9-13 | jW | U916 | [Input File: Ux05jW.j] |