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Introduction
The strata sequence currently used is J5B, it is a sequence based on the J5 data and is unique to J5. It is a component of the final version of the JPD developed during the 2011 and 2012 study seasons. (The JPD sequence was formed by the amalgamation of unit sequences from J1, J2, J3, and J5.) The previous unit sequence, J5A, can be found here.
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The strata definition chart (J5B)
phase | stratum | sub-stratum | definition of stratum and sub-stratum |
9s | 00 | Intentionally unassigned (f103) | |
9p | 10 | Interseasonal Accumulations (f201) | |
9m | 20 | Topsoil on tell surface (f1) | |
9m | 30 | First accumulations under topsoil (f7) | |
9c | 50 | Late accumulations including soil lenses (f22) | |
8r | 60 | Temporary occupations (f26) | |
8m | 70 | Minor Middle Assyrian accumulations (f12, f13) | |
7v | 120 | Last Mittani accumulations (f75) | |
7v | 122 | Construction of alternate entrance to temple mound (f37) | |
7v | 128 | Remodeling of entrance (f45, f192) | |
7s | 130 | Use of Western Temple Entrance (f63) | |
7m | 148 | Westward expansion of temple mound (f21, f70) | |
7j | 161 | Continued erosion of built-up surfaces and attempts to control it (f155, f218, f222) | |
7f | 174 | Soil escarpment against early revetment wall (f74). | |
7f | 176 | Accumulations atop soil and sherd floors (f244) | |
7f | 178 | Stone staircase and associated floor (f205, f246). | |
7f | 180 | Mittani structures to contol water erosion against revetment wall | |
7f | 180a | Brick dam and settling basin to control erosion (^wcs2). | |
7f | 180b | Mittani accumulations atop EDIII glacis (f190, f191). | |
7c | 190 | Earliest Mittani deposits (f258). | |
3s | 620 | EDIII accumulations covering and abutting escarpments (f249). | |
3p | 630 | Construction of the second (mud) escarpment (f241, f242). | |
3n | 640 | First floors and deposits atop first (stone) escarpment. | |
3n | 640a | Deposits atop floors and escarpment stones (f274). | |
3n | 640b | First floor after SE wall constructed (278). | |
3m | 650 | EDIII modifications and additions to the revetment wall. | |
3m | 650a | Slanted stones between EDIII wall and NinV escarpment (f293, z2). | |
3m | 650b | Construction of the SE portion of the revetment wall (f189). | |
3l | 660 | Floors abutting the stone excarpment. | |
3l | 660a | Accumulations on pebble floor (f282). | |
3l | 660b | Pebble floor that abuts stone escarpment (f288). | |
3d | 720 | Ninevite V construction of west part of revetment wall system (f41, ^esc1) | |
2m | 850 | Earliest wall LC3? (f284). |
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