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Introduction
J4 was an active excavation for one season in 2006. However, a portion of J4 unit (T14) has been excavated as part of B6 in 2001 by the German team of the university of Tübingen. Loci k82 and k83 have been previously investigated in season 2004-5 as part of J2 unit.
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The 2006 season
18 loci were laid, but only 15 were excavated. The main goal was to look into the possibility of a specular arrangement of the monumental staircase complex. It was mainly set around wall f10
(exposed in T14) to see if the secondary Apron as exposed in J2 area continued on the east.
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Follow-up work to the 2006 season
The documentation work that takes place during the excavation was continued afterwards, working on stratigraphy and understanding the depositional history of the area.
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The excavation of J6 in 2008-2009 seasons
The more profound understanding of the unit J4 came from the excavations of unit J6, set to the south of J4, which also subsumed parts of J4 under it. Through J6, it was possible to understand the deposition of the Mittani layers directly on top of 3rd millennium layers, as the finds of k100 revealed.
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Follow-up work in the later years
The analytical record (the right hand side), was complete in terms of data entry by the end of the 2010, where most of work on the phase and strata assignment was done, in addition to understanding more in details the stratigraphical situation in the light of J6 excavations. However, the right hand side needed revision and completion, and the synthetic record (left hand side) needed to be written. This was done between 2022 and 2025.
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