.bk J03
.fl Ux07jW1.j
.fd comments on q-items and features
.fn f351 q431.2
.ei jW
.ed Ux07
.rd U925
.ri jw

q 431.2
nt When first recovered jW believed that these items (small spheres, cones, pyramids) were game pieces.
.ri lH1
nt However, lH1 had the better suggestion, namely that the items may have been tokens for counting and keeping track of important things, perhaps even a predecessor to a writing system.
.ri jW
P99 Hand-carried to jN, curator, for special processing, description, photography, and storage.
A99 Because the JD programs do not fully process individual q-sub-items properly, this group of tokens has been re-designated as an item (i35).

i 35
A99 Thirteen tokens formerly designated as q439.2.

.rd U928
f 351
ar We initially labeled this feature as a glacis because of its steep slope N to S and its crusty surface covering reddish material.  As we scraped the crust away, regular brickwork, clearly a southward extension of wall, f348 was evident in the eastern and central portions of the locus.  At the southern end, the material became softer, and, in analyzing the ceramics from q431, mKB noticed a large quantity of large sherds and two relatively complete vessels (i29, i30). In addition the cache of tokens (q431.2 or i35) was found there.  mKB suggested that this feature had the characteristics of a floor accumulation (aa). Further excavation revealed that f351 indeed covered a relatively flat brick surface, f363, which we did not excavate this season.  During the stratigraphic anlysis attended by gB, mKB, fAB, and jW, gB suggested that the crust was indeed a glacis, which we did not recognize at the time of excavation and which is so thin that it does not appear in the north section.  Due to the overwhelming indirect evidence of its existance, we designated the crust glacis, f368.

f 217
df ad

f 332
df st-is

f 333
df ad

f 596
df st

f 597
df st

f 598
df st