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Stratigraphy
This phase, dating back to the Imperial Akkadian period, is of great importance as it demonstrates the deposition of a 3rd millennium layer very high on the mound and directly below a Mittani layer.
This phase consists of 6 features in J4 (f10 wall, f50 accumulation on which f10 rests, f121 part of the extended brick-fall named as bf^1 and bf^2 found throughout the whole J06 unit where the top layer belongs to phase 63-MZA andd the bottom to phase 32-MZA, f150, f158 and f160 interpreted as Glacis layers same as J6f164 (cfr. J06^glacis 3) made to protect a stone wall located on the west, J02 f129.
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Typology
In the beginning, the dating wa unclear due to the mixed nature of the ceramics and based on preliminary examination of shapes and decoration. Some Khabur was mixed with Mittani sherds in the q-lots belonging to f121.
For f150, assignment based on similarity with dateable feature and on pottery analysis (cfr. mKB S901), dating this feature the same as f164 in J06, which belongs to stratum 49.
After the excavations of J6 and subsuming some of he J4 loci with J6, it was possible to understand why there were Mittani sherds mixed with Chalcolithis, especially tha f158 and f160 indicated the presence of some Chalcolithic sherds revealing that in this portion of the tell mound 3rd millennium BC layers were located right below Mittani accumulations.
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