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Unit Book J3

J3f591

Processed on 2024-07-27

1. OVERVIEW

Roster Date Author Record
Category 2020-08-24 jW installation [Input: ZE824jW.j]
Best definition 2006-09-01 vVE stone installation [Input: Q918EI3.j]
Summary 2012-09-07 jW A line of large boulders in k106 added to revetment wall, f569, in late Mittani times to increase its height. [Input: W907JW.j]
Best image 2007-07-20 mO
v548 [Input: R720MO.j]

2. IDENTIFICATION

Designation

Roster Date Author Record
Description (summary) 2007-08-07 ei Feature f591 was built around the time that f569 was about to be covered by deposit, as an important rebuilding to show the line of memory stones. [Input: R807EI1.j]

3. STRATIGRAPHY

Volumetric Localization

Roster Date Author Record
Locus 2006-09-01 vVE k106 [Input: Q918EI3.j]
M#/elev @top 2006-09-01 vVE 9186 [Input: Q918EI3.j]

Spatial Aggregation

Roster Date Author Record
Aggregate (to which element belongs) 2007-07-21 mO a502 (wall) [Input: R721MO.j]

Time Sequencing

Roster Date Author Record
Stratum (to which element belongs) 2012-09-09 jW s148bJ3B [Input: W909JW.j]
Phase (to which element belongs) 2012-08-26 !! f583 (brick installation) [Input: W826JW.j]
2012-09-08 !! f591 (stone installation) [Input: W908JW2.j]
2012-09-09 !! h7mJ3B [Input: W909JW.j]
2012-10-07 !! f51 (packing) [Input: WX07JW.j]
2012-10-07 !! f66 (isolated stone) [Input: WX07JW.j]
2012-10-07 !! f67 (isolated stone) [Input: WX07JW.j]
2012-10-07 !! f68 (isolated stone) [Input: WX07JW.j]
Strata (included within phase) 2012-08-26 jW s122cJ3B [Input: W826JW.j]
2012-09-08 jW s148bJ3B [Input: W908JW2.j]
Stratigraphic reasons of assignment 2007-07-31 mO between revetment wall and f569 [Input: R731MO1.j]
2012-08-26 jW Capstones laid on soil atop EDIII revetment wall f569. [Input: W826JW.j]
Typological reasons for assignment 2007-07-31 mO apron [Input: R731MO1.j]
Other reasons, reservations, qualifications 2012-08-26 jW These stones were not removed so the soil foundation could be dated. However, since they were surrounded and topped by late Mittani accumulations, they can be dated to this period with relative certainty. More generally they fit an overall pattern of attempts to preserve the sacral nature of the area around the EDIII revetment wall despite rising levels of natural accumulations to the south of it, which indeed somewhat later covered the entire complex. [Input: W826JW.j]
2012-09-08 jW These stones were not removed so the soil foundation could be dated. However, since they were surrounded and topped by late Mittani accumulations, they probably can be dated to the middle Mittani period. The excavator, vVE believed that the f532 and f556 aprons must have been built as part of the shift of the temple monumental entrance to the west, done in phase h7mJ3B. By studying the east section of k107, he determined that these capstones were added just before the f556 apron was built. [Input: W908JW2.j]
Notes on time sequencing 2006-09-04 vVE Strata 12 is defined by the building of the second apron, i.e. f532 and f556. The section of the East side of the East baulk of k107 has shown that the Second Apron was built soon after stones were added to the top of the revetment wall, i.e. f591. Since both these rebuildings show a significant change in the concept of the monumental staircase and the temple terrace, I have decided to assign f591 to Stratum S12d and the second apron to s12c. [Input: Q904VVE.j]
2006-09-04 vVE Thin layers of accumulation between the top of the revetment wall and the renewal of its top, f591, prove that f591 was built arond the time that f569 was about to be covered by deposits. The section of the East side of the East baulk of k107 has shown that the Second Apron was built soon after f591 had been completed. [Input: Q904VVE.j]

6. REFERENCE

Analogical Record

Roster Date Author Record
View/drawing of features

v544
2006-08-27 vVE [Input: RY01JW.j]

v544a
2006-08-27 vVE [Input: RY01JW.j]

v544b
2006-08-27 vVE [Input: RY01JW.j]

v545d
2006-08-27 vVE [Input: RY01JW.j]

v548
2006-08-31 vVE [Input: RY01JW.j]

v548a
2006-08-31 vVE [Input: RY01JW.j]

v549
2006-08-31 vVE [Input: RY01JW.j]

v549c
2006-08-31 vVE [Input: RY01JW.j]

v550
2006-08-31 vVE [Input: RY01JW.j]

v550a
2006-08-31 vVE [Input: RY01JW.j]

v550d
2006-08-31 vVE [Input: RY01JW.j]

v551a
2006-09-02 vVE [Input: RY01JW.j]

v551b
2006-09-02 vVE [Input: RY01JW.j]

v551c
2006-09-02 vVE [Input: RY01JW.j]

v553
2006-09-02 vVE [Input: RY01JW.j]

v553a
2006-09-02 vVE [Input: RY01JW.j]

p507
2007-08-13 eI [Input: R813EI.j]

w507
2007-08-20 eI [Input: R820EI.j]

w508
2007-08-20 eI [Input: R820EI.j]