.bk J05
.fl T802jW.j
.fd Daily journal for T802; Feature descriptions
.fn f234-236
.ei jW
.ed T802
.rd T802
.ri jW

-wk All thirteen assigned workmen reported.  fAB added Ahmed Hawaz and Salah Muhammad Kher to unit.

-sf sE worked at home after breakfast entering data and preparing templates.

-sg In several meetings among gB, fAB, and the unit staff, several pending issues were resolved.  First, we decided to begin the excavation of the high bulks to the south by removing the part of k100 to the east of what was formerly J1k7. Then, if time permits, we will remove the part k100 that was to the north of J1k7.  This will allow us to take maximum advatage of the typology of J1k7, which was excavated in three steps, descending from south to north.  Since the bottom step is about at the elevation of the second escarpment, f184, we will get much more exposure and working room to trace the escarpment and underlying stone work, f225 and f188, south and west.  With respect to tracing the second escarpment from J1 to the west, we have been hindered by the fact that it is covered by a thin crust, f236, which matches the color of accumulations nearby.  jW decided to cut a thin section (5cm) running N-S across the escarpment, then follow it east and west.  At the bottom, the soil was considerably more red, and the pottery was exclusively from ED III or before.

-sg Comparing this result with that obtained in J1, we are confident we are at the top of the same escarpment which rises in elevation as one moves from west to east.  In k33 we have positively identified an early floor, f230, that goes with wall k41 and extends to the west from the northern part that we see.  (It is possible that f41 extends even farther north beyond the staircase, f21, but we will not be able to determine that this season.)  We will trace this floor surface north to the middle step of f21 and west to the west baulk of k33.  If time permits, we should also trace the floor farther west to determine its relationship with brick wall, f196, whose top was exposed at the end of MZ21.  Finally, we need to determing the relationship between the staircase, f21, and wall, f41, which appears to run beneath it.  A small block of soil will be removed from accumlation, f128, to the east, undercutting bottom stones of f21 at a gap between them.  If we encounter the stones of f41, then we know that f21 rests on f41 and is therefore later.  How much later can not be determined.

f 234
ds Accumulation abutting accumulation, f218 in the northwest corner of k33.  It covers floor accumulation, f229, which in turn covers floor, f230.

f 235
ds The highest natural accumulation in the portion of k100 to the east of J1k7.  It is a mixture of topsoil, some backdirt from shafats, and the natural accumlation above the Mittani laminar accumulations.

f 236
ds Floor accumulation above escarpment, f184.  Its top is a hard crust, which seals the material below.  It probably results from weathering of the original surface of the escarpment.  Preliminary analysis by mKB of the pottery lot from this feature tentavely dates it to the Early Dynastic III period.  This confirms the phase assignment of last season to f184, both here and in J1.

f 230
dy A horizontal probe through accumulation, f128, underneath the stones of f21, to the stones of f41 showed that the floor, f230 abuts f41.
tc ab f41

f 21
tc re f41