Unit Book J5

The Mittani Staircase (Version 1a)

J5 synthetic View / Stratigraphy

Phase 3mJ5B within Unit J5

James L. Walker – October 2012

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Stratigraphy

Phase 3m (Stratum 650) modified the temple mound by extending to the west the Early Dynastic III period monumental stone revetment wall f189 to intersect an earlier Ninevite V monumental stone wall, f41.

Because the EDIII wall was not exactly aligned with the Ninevite V wall and its stone escarpment, a baqaya and sherd escarpment f184 was added to protect the base of the new extension from erosion.

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Typology

Ceramics have been thoroughly analyzed to help determine the relationship between the J5 escarpments (265 and 184) and the escarpments in J1.

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