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Unit Book J4

J4f10

Processed on 2023-11-19

1. OVERVIEW

Roster Date Author Record
Category !! !! installation
Best definition 2006-08-20 !! wall [Input: Q820SC2.j]
Best image 2010-03-22 sC L_V19d3008 J4v6 Q814 dM [Input: U322SC2.j]

2. IDENTIFICATION

Designation

Roster Date Author Record
Definition 2006-08-20 sC wall [Input: Q820SC2.j]
Description (summary) 2006-08-20 sC f10 has been assigned to a large group of limestones located in the North-West portion of k71, with a NW/SE orientation, which could be possibily part of a larger stone structure. f10 was almost completely exposed in 2001, when the German team directed by Prof. P. Pfalzner, dug a trench running W-E in this portion of the tell Terrace, T14, as visible in v6. f10 consists of large rectangular stones and of irregular ones, and the structure, seems to have a trapezoidal shape, with an orientation slightly oblique respect to the allignment of the Secondary Apron exposed in J02 area. The stones are embedded into mud mortar with small stones between the joints (characteristics that reminds the building tecnique of the secondary Apron). At present, it is unclear whether f10 continues further more to the North: in k71 f10 seems to reach its higher elevation, and no stones -at present- at visible in k70, located N and to a higher elevation respect k71. We have not dug yet in k71, and f10 seems to rest on f50 (and thus, f50 could be a possible floor surface). However, it could possibly be that f50 is an accumulation which covers the lower portion of f10 (in the S portion of the locus). f50 covers as well some isolated stones (such as f11 and f16), which probably originally belong to f10. At present, these stones have been labeled as different features from f10 since it is not clear whether they were part of f10: only by digging f50 this relationship will be clear. [Input: Q820SC2.j]

3. STRATIGRAPHY

Recovery/Assignment

Roster Date Author Record
Evolution 2010-02-24 sC During the 2006 excavation season, we were thinking that f10 could be part of the secondary Apron as exposed in J02, altough f10 was located definitely higher in elevation respect to the Apron as it is exposed in J02 area. We noticed that this structure did not appear to continue in k81 nor in k72: this was taken as an indication that some of the stones of this portion of the secondary Apron could have been possibly moved and reused in later times. After the last two excavation seasons, however, it has been cleared that this structure is part of the revetment wall. For the new interpretation of f10, please, see area J06 f218. [Input: U224SC.j]
Notes on recovery 2010-03-07 sC The real bottom given in the elevation description does not correspond to the real bottom of the feature, since we stop digging in this locus and did not removed completely f50. The bottom elevation reported, has thus been taken where the lowest stone of wall f10 was visible. [Input: U306SC.j]

Volumetric Localization

Roster Date Author Record
Locus 2006-08-12 sc k71 [Input: Q813PC.j]
Relays (applicable to elements) 2006-09-02 bWP r36 (40451 52577 - 9387 / Relay location: N corner of stone) [Input: Q914RE1R.j]
2006-09-02 bWP r37 (40399 52574 - 9385 / Relay location: S corner of stone) [Input: Q914RE1R.j]
2006-09-02 bWP r38 (40384 52431 - 9388 / Relay location: w corner of stone) [Input: Q914RE1R.j]
2006-09-02 bWP r39 (40327 52582 - 9379 / Relay location: E corner of stone) [Input: Q914RE1R.j]
2006-09-02 bWP r40 (40353 52434 - 9381 / Relay location: NW corner of stone) [Input: Q914RE1R.j]
2006-09-02 bWP r41 (40266 52548 - 9349 / Relay location: S corner of stone) [Input: Q914RE1R.j]
2006-09-02 bWP r42 (40293 52591 - 9345 / Relay location: SE corner of stone) [Input: Q914RE1R.j]
2006-09-02 bWP r43 (40293 42414 - 9374 / Relay location: SW corner of stone) [Input: Q914RE1R.j]
2006-09-02 bWP r44 (40259 52456 - 9366 / Relay location: S corner of stone) [Input: Q914RE1R.j]
2006-09-02 bWP r45 (40217 52536 - 9345 / Relay location: SW corner of stone) [Input: Q914RE1R.j]
2006-09-02 bWP r46 (40255 52592 - 9347 / Relay location: NE corner of stone) [Input: Q914RE1R.j]
2006-09-02 bWP r47 (40227 52403 - 9368 / Relay location: S corner of stone) [Input: Q914RE1R.j]
2006-09-02 bWP r48 (40186 52446 - 9357 / Relay location: SW corner of stone) [Input: Q914RE1R.j]
2006-09-02 bWP r49 (40189 52601 - 9318 / Relay location: SE corner of stone) [Input: Q914RE1R.j]
2006-09-02 bWP r50 (40185 52372 - 9360 / Relay location: w corner of stone) [Input: Q914RE1R.j]
2006-09-02 bWP r51 (40138 52421 - 9326 / Relay location: SW corner of stone) [Input: Q914RE1R.j]
2006-09-02 bWP r52 (40115 52468 - 9329 / Relay location: S corner of stone) [Input: Q914RE1R.j]
2006-09-02 bWP r53 (40102 52521 - 9301 / Relay location: S corner of stone) [Input: Q914RE1R.j]
2006-09-02 bWP r54 (40106 52585 - 9292 / Relay location: SW corner of stone) [Input: Q914RE1R.j]
2006-09-02 bWP r55 (39446 53695 - 9303 / Relay location: E corner of stone) [Input: Q914RE1R.j]
2006-09-02 bWP r56 (40051 52625 - 9238 / Relay location: S corner of stone) [Input: Q914RE1R.j]
2006-09-02 bWP r57 (40064 52725 - 9312 / Relay location: SE corner of stone) [Input: Q914RE1R.j]
2006-09-02 bWP r58 (40096 52344 - 9338 / Relay location: SW corner of stone) [Input: Q914RE1R.j]
2006-09-02 bWP r59 (40066 52463 - 8308 / Relay location: E corner of stone) [Input: Q914RE1R.j]
2006-09-02 bWP r60 (40035 52317 - 9291 / Relay location: w corner of stone) [Input: Q914RE1R.j]
2006-09-02 bWP r61 (40018 52479 - 9267 / Relay location: SE corner of stone) [Input: Q914RE1R.j]
2006-09-02 bWP r62 (40017 52572 - 9263 / Relay location: S corner of stone) [Input: Q914RE1R.j]
2006-09-02 bWP r63 (39981 52704 - 9269 / Relay location: E corner of stone) [Input: Q914RE1R.j]
2006-09-02 bWP r64 (39992 52510 - 9263 / Relay location: NW corner of stone) [Input: Q914RE1R.j]
2006-09-02 bWP r65 (39962 52588 - 9247 / Relay location: S corner of stone) [Input: Q914RE1R.j]
2006-09-02 bWP r66 (39926 52586 - 9237 / Relay location: SE corner of stone) [Input: Q914RE1R.j]
Elevation 2010-01-13 sC not excavated@bottom [Input: U113SC.j]
M#/elev @top 2006-08-12 sc 9402 [Input: Q813PC.j]

Contact Association

Roster Date Author Record
Type of contact: latest events 2006-10-08 sC f116 (accumulation D) covers f10 (wall) [Input: QX08SC.j]
Type of contact: earliest events 2006-10-08 sC f10 (wall) overlays f50 (accumulation) [Input: QX08SC.j]

Time Sequencing

Roster Date Author Record
Stratum (to which element belongs) 2010-02-16 sC s49MZA [Input: U216SC.j]
Phase (to which element belongs) 2010-02-16 !! h32MZA [Input: U216SC.j]
Stratigraphic reasons of assignment 2010-03-10 sC Problematic assignment. This stone installation, which appears to be similar to the Apron, seems to have been re-touched (possibly re-built) in later times; the allignment of the stones in the N portion of the locus have a nice arrangment while the stones in the middle portion of k71 seems to have been moved or not in their original context. f10 is cleary built on the slope of the tell, and the accumulation f50 -that goes against f10 in the S portion of k71- has not been removed. Excavations carried out in J03 and J02 Units indicate that the Apron rests on top of a glacis layer, and we think this is the case of f10. By removing f50 will be possibe to better understand whether also f10 rests on top of a glacis layer, which, has been exposed south to k71, in k72 (f127). [Input: U310SC.j]

4. TYPOLOGY

Morphology

Roster Date Author Record
Ware or Material, species 2006-08-12 sc limestone [Input: Q813PC.j]
Color 2006-08-12 sc white [Input: Q813PC.j]

6. REFERENCE

Analogical Record

Roster Date Author Record
View/drawing of features

v6
2010-03-21 sC [Input: U321SC2.j]
v6a
2010-03-21 sC [Input: U321SC2.j]

v15
2010-03-21 sC [Input: U321SC2.j]

v15a
2010-03-21 sC [Input: U321SC2.j]

v27
2010-03-21 sC [Input: U321SC2.j]

v27a
2010-03-21 sC [Input: U321SC2.j]

v29
2010-03-21 sC [Input: U321SC2.j]

v34
2010-03-21 sC [Input: U321SC2.j]

v34a
2010-03-21 sC [Input: U321SC2.j]
v34b
2010-03-21 sC [Input: U321SC2.j]
v34c
2010-03-21 sC [Input: U321SC2.j]

v56
2010-03-21 sC [Input: U321SC2.j]

v56c
2010-03-21 sC [Input: U321SC2.j]

v67
2010-03-21 sC [Input: U321SC3.j]

v67a
2010-03-21 sC [Input: U321SC3.j]

v78
2010-03-21 sC [Input: U321SC3.j]

v78a
2010-03-21 sC [Input: U321SC3.j]

v98
2010-03-21 sC [Input: U321SC3.j]

Disposition

Roster Date Author Record
Notes on disposition 2010-01-14 sc Not removed in 2006 excavation season [Input: U114SC.j]