Unit Book J4

The Eastern Top of the Main Staircase (Version 1a)

Overviews. Stratigraphy

Volumetric data

Yasmine Mahmoud – July 2025

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Principles

For an introdution to the basic principles of emplacement see the Grammar.

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Material removed

Approximately ? cubic meters of soil were removed in one season of excavations.

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Loci

Fifteen 5x5 meter square loci were excvated in 2006.

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Sections

39 sections were drawn in 2006 and all were produced as templates in 2025.

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Sketches and drawings

Sketdches were made daily in a structured format to uniformly track excavation progress. They document the locations of features, q-lots, and items. X such sketches were made for the daily progress of the excavation. 6 drawing with measurements were made to document various elements in the unit.

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Markers

A suveyor established accurate control points to define loci and to serve as refeence points for secondary position measuments of the location of constituents. Here one may find the surveyed coordinates of each.

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