Unit Book J4

The Eastern Top of the Main Staircase - Version 1a

Typology/Built environment

Loose materials in unit J4

Yasmine Mahmoud – July 2023

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Synopsis

f43  f44  f9  f13 Accumulation layers. v80  v29  v16
f11  f16  f99  f73 Floating stones v6  v98  v13
^bf1^bf2 Brickfall f121 v65
^dump1 f63  f103 Brick melt. v31  v100

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Discussion

The loose materials of J4 consists of accumulation layers, and displaced or floating stones.

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Natural Accumulations

Around 71 layers of natural accumulation were found in J4. In most cases these accumulations are consecutive one on top of the other, or they cover isolated floating stones. This is typical in J4 since it an area that was not used, so it is normal that there would be an accumulation build up, especially in the Mittani period, to which most of these accumulations pertain. It is interesting to note that these Mittani accumulations over lay directly a 3rd millennium horizon.

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Floating stones

Around 32 floating stones were found in J4. It is not clear if these stones constituted a part of a larger structure in the past, however there is no evidence to support it. They were probably there as part of the Tell’s build up. Most of these stones sit in natural accumulation layer and or rest on one. All the stones are lime stones with various shapes and sizes, and they do not appear worked.

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Brickfall

part of the extended brick-fall named as bf^1 and bf^2 found throughout the whole J06 unit (and partially in the J07 unit as well) during the 2007-8 excavation seasons. The brickfall bf^2 in J06 is thought to be originated from structures of small buildings located on the east respect the area where J06 unit was set, which could possibly be connected with the residential area C2 (cfr. J06 bf^2); the collapse of these structures, defined as brickfall bf^2, covered a vast area extended to the southern portion of J4.

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Brickmelt

Two consecutive layers of brick melt were found in J4 k72. They most probably pertain to dump^1 in J6 that extended to the southern portion of J4.

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