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-wk today I get 4 new worken for J6: Ahuar and Nasm Mahmood are pickmen in k75, Ahmed Khataf is a shovel and Mahmood Osman is the wheelbarrow
-dy Today I get a new team of 4 workmen, which I put in k75. Today we worked in all squares k74, k75, k84, k85. We finished to remove the brickfall in k85 f55, then we removed the West baulk which coveres the wall f129 and f130. In k85 we removed f37, which we found last week: excavating this feature we collected 7 bags of pottery in one pickrun, then we expose a surface of melted bricks. In k74 we removed f59, which is a natural accumulation and we found a surface of bricks f64 and the accumulation abutting it, f65 with a lot of pottery. In k75 we excavated f61 and under it was a surface of melted bricks. After breakfast dH stayed at home.

k 84
dy Today we finished removing the brickfall f55: it is full of red and grey unbaked bricks, crumbly and is hard when picked, it has not much pottery; After removing it, we found a hard surface which is sloping towards South-West f63. This is an indication that there is a boundary to the west that stopps the slope. This slope could be a glacis which covers the ancient mound of the temple terrace and was covered by this glacis to protect it; it probably ends aganist the wall f130. this situation reminds me to J3, were a series of glacis were uncovered: they are the coating of the temple mound, finishing in behind the revetment wall (J3f150 is the glacis). We covered the glacis and we started removing the western baulk. I decided to excavate it stratigraphically, following the accumulations which are f66 and then the floor f46 which in the baulk is f67. this floor was relayed and then removed together with the brickfall. The brickfall coveres wall f127, which is the memory stones of the wall f129. In the baulk was found a jar stopper i2

f 55
ds f55 is the brickfall in k84: it is full of red and grey unbaked bricks but they have different directions, it is crumbly and is hard when picked. It has not much pottery and is circa 50 cm thick. Is the same as f67, which is located in the western baulk. It covers and abuts wall f127.

k 85
dy Today we removed f37, which was exposed since last week, but we decided to leave it since we removed all baulks. In one pickrun were collected 7 bags of pottery in f37, which is Mittani (mKB). f37 was also full of bones, brick crumbles and pebbles. We found several pieces of ancient cement q105.1 in f37. We removed the stone f40 which was resting on top of f37. Probably f37 is a dump coming from the structures in k75, k74, which we are exposing today. f37 covered f60, which is a soft accumulation full of pottery and pieces of gypsum: f60 covered a surface of melted bricks, that today we did not excavated and tomorrow we will give a new feature number.

k 74
dy We removed f59, which is an accumulation covering a mudbrick structure, which we are exposing and not fully understood; f59 was soft but with patches of harder soil and was characterized by the presence of a lot of pottery and big sherds. since we found a line of bricks in the Eastern part of the square f64, i decided to change feature number and expose the bricks and excavate in the western part which is f65: it is an accumulation which abuts f64 and is characterized by the presence of big sherds, carbons, brick crumples and pieces of tannur. It is the same as f59 which covers it. In the south part of the square aKarim found a rounded and flat clay object which has in one side the impression of a basket (i2).

k 75
dy Today we opened k75 because i get a new team of workmen: they excavated f61, which is an accumulation which covers a surface of melted bricks. We will look carfully tomorrow for the brick, but it seems to be the same as the brick in k85, which are at the same elevation

f 37
ds f37 covers the whole locus of k85. it presents a hard surface, with a lot of pebbles, sherds and some animal bones. This is also characterized by the presence of backed bricks and melted bricks. There are also some ashes

f 46
ds f46 is a highly compacted floor surface in k84: it has some sherds laying flat (a khabur painted sherd was just above it) and is dark brown in color. It is the same surface found in J4k84 North J4f119 and J4f79

f 47
ds f47 has been assigned to the whole North baulk of k75

f 48
ds it is a floating stone located in the northern part of k84

f 51
ds f51 is a floating stone located in the northern baulk of k75
tc si f47

f 52
ds f52 covers the whole unit in k84 (which is a half square). It is a brick melt, where are pieces of bricks.
tc co f53

f 38
tc co f46

f 46
tc co f52

f 53
ds f53 is the brickfall which covers the whole unit: it is characterized by the presence of complete bricks but having any mortar between them and they are coming from a structure to the East in k74, which we still did not excavated. The brickfall continues in f55.
tc co f55

f 55
ds It is the brickfall in k84 and is the same of f53: f55 is much more full of bricks and some with mortar in between.
tc co f63

f 54
ds f54 has been assigned to the Eastern baulk of k74

f 56
ds f56 is a floating stone in k84

f 57
ds f57 is the cleaning of the North baulk ok k74

f 59
ds f59 is an accumulation that covers the whole k74 and covers the brickmelt f64 and f65; f59 is soft but with patches of harder soil and characterized by the presence of a lot of pottery and big sherds.