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Structures
The excavations in J4 did not yeald any grand structures. What we have identified as walls, are in most cases only one or two rows of stones or bricks. The only large structure in J4 is ^wall1 (f10) in the northern part, understood as a part of the revetment wall. This is the only 3rd millennium wall. The rest of the walls all belong to the Mittani horizon.
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Installations
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The installations are few in J4. The most notable is installation f93 (a2), which could have been used for storage, although there is no archaeological evidence to support this assumption. Other installations include 4 tannurs from the Mittani period and 2 floor surfaces laid with few sherds and pebbles. However, their preserved surfaces are too small to label it as a pavement.
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Two pits were found in J4, the fill of one pit contained the complete skeleton of a Saluki dog i5, suggesting that it might have been a grave pit, due to the state of burial and the presence of the other bones too (frog bones i6).
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The other type of installation in J4 is the two glacis layer. One of the layers is the same as the Early Mittani ^glacis2 in J6 and the other one dates to the Early Akkadian period (^glacis3).
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