.bk J05 .fl T815jW.j .fd Daily journal for T815 and feature descriptions .fn f262-f273 .ei jW .ed T815 .rd T815 .ri jW -wk Fifteen assigned workmen reported. Mudir replaced Sipan. -ac Ahmed Hawaz cut his finger while moving a large stone from near the west baulk of k106. -sy Since the production of surveyed points has been delayed this season, the surveyor measured, with the level, the elevation of a number of key features in the unit, including parts of wall, f41; revetment wall, f189; and escarpments ^esc1 and ^esc2. f 262 ds A granular, red soil atop and south of layered escarpment, f241 in the west part of k106. It may indeed be the top layers of f241 which were softened by water and erosion. ;tc co f241 f 263 ds Dense, hard, reddish accumulation under accumulation, f259. There were no sherds in the inclusions, but there were bits of charcoal and pieces of deteriorated red mudbrick. ;tc co f265 ;tc co f267 f 264 ds Soft, brown natural accumulation in the far west corner of k106. ;tc co f268 f 265 ds Two large, flat stones in the middle east of k105, oriented northwest to southeast, approximatedly in line with the stones of stone escarpment, ^esc1. They are about 40cm to the northwest of the base of stone wall, f41, and separated from it by a layer of broken limestones, f267. ;tc ab f267 f 266 ds Fifth "step" down at the bottom of stepped stone structure, f205. However, it differs from the higher steps in two respects: first, it consists of a large stone and several smaller ones rather than a solid slab; second, it is oriented slightly more southward and is more horizantal than the others, which slope slightly downward into f41. ;tc ab f41 f 267 ds Pieces of broken limestones between stone wall, f41, and the large stones of f265 in the middle west of k105. ;tc ab f41 f 268 ds Red mass of soil under natural accumulation, f264, in the far west part of k106, adjacent to the west baulk. It had a hard surface and was relatively clean, except along the bottom. It probably served as one of the intermediate escarpments along the south edge of the revetment wall, f189. ;tc co f188 f 270 ds Two large, limestone boulders, near the east baulk of k105. They wer unfounded and not associated with any extant structure. ;tc si f271 f 269 ds Two large, flat slabs of cut limestone, one atop the other in the southeast sector of k105. They were unfounded and not a part of an extant structure. ;tc si f271 f 271 ds Yellowish-brown accumulation below accumulation, f228. It should be a continuation to the south of a similar accumulation, f259. Unfortunately, so far there have only been a few body sherds from this feature for use in dating, although we expect it to be Phase 3 in the JP3 sequence. A1 f259 f 272 ds Large, isolated, unfounded limestone boulder imbedded in the east baulk of k105. It could not be associated with an extant structure. ;tc si f271 f 273 ds A large, isolated, unfounded limestone boulder near both the west baulk of k106 and the south face of revetment wall, f189. ;tc si f264 -sg In the northern sector of k105 we will continue to excavate the pebbles of fill, f254, hoping to locate the surface upon which they rest. In the southeastern sector, we will continue to remove f271, excavating to the level of flat stones, f265 to the north, hoping to follow them east to the expected stones of ^esc1, through the baulk separating k105 and k106.In k106, we will excavate a two-meter wide strip along the face of the west baulk of the locus, removing the reddish mass of soil, f268. f 254 ev For the last several days we have removed stones from this feature. fAB noted that it is too thick to be a pavement and it is not a sewage drainage because it is not contained by walls. f 261 df st ds One large, rounded, limestone boulder, apparently unfounded and not associated with any extant structure. It is close to five other large stones, none of which appear to be a part of an extant structure. su When we first assigned a number to this feature, it appeared to comprise a cluster of large cut and uncut limestone blocks gathered in the southeast corner of k105. They were under the soil pedestal of the Mittani revetment wall, f3 and seemed possibly to have been placed to support an earlier structure. However, as the soil surrounding the stones was excavated, it actually comprises two isolated, unfounded stones, f261 and f272, and two clusters of two each of unfounded stones, f269 and f270.