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-dy Today we excavated in k84 the glacis f132 and under it were 3 different features: f141, a dark brown soil, f140 a pavement of sherds and f142, an ash acumulation which was sitting in a kind of shallow pit. We removed the brickfall in k86 f136 and we exposed to the north an ashy layer f139. Under the brickfall we found the latest glacis: this is the same situation we found in k85. In k87 we removed f131, which had a lot of pottery and pebbles and under it there was the brickfall f143 and probably a wall. Today we continued to push the dirt into k200 and take it with the shaffat and the crane.

k 86
dy Today we finished to remove f131, which was an accumulation full of pottery and pebbles. It is very similar to f37 in k85, which is 50cm higher: it is probably the same feature which slopes toward south and was find mostly in k85, some in k74 and k84 (f38, f42, f43) in k75 and in k86 only in section; from k86 was collected a lot of pottery at the beginning of f124. I belive that is a kind of dump coming after the brickfall: it was found everywhere above the brickfall. under f131 we found the brickfall f143 to the South, instead to the North still f131. the brickfall slopes also towards south, as all the accumulations in j6, probably following the slope of the mound. After removing all f131 we were able to see everywhere the brickfall f143. We removed the big stone f133 and in the southern part of the locus, in the corner came out what seemed to be a mudbrick wall with East-South North-west orientation. We removed the brickfall aganist it and we saw 3 lines of bricks. The probable wall is only 1 meter visible and the remaining part was removed by the excavation of 2002 in the trench operation, which is now k200 (see introduction to J6).

f 143
ds the brickfall in k87 covers all the locus. It is crumbly and hard. It is the same as f124 in k86

f 131
ar today we removed all f131, which was an hard accumulation full of pottery and pebbles. it looks very similar to f37 in k85 and probably is a dump
tc co f143

f 133
tc si f131

k 86
dy Today we continued to remove f136, which is the brickfall same as f86 in k85. It overlays the ashy layer f139, which is the same as f90 in k85; both overlay the glacis, same as f110 in k85. We found q218.2 which is a small stone plaque with the inlay of two lions: it seems Early Dynastic

f 136
ds f136 covers all the locus and is the brickfall same as f86 in k85. It is crumbly and compact in consistence
tc ov f139
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f 139
ds ashy layer in k86: it is located in the Northern part of the square and is overlayed by f136 and it slopes toward South; it is a powderly soft layer same as f90 in k85 and f97 in k75

-wk today after breackfast Taher whent home. Ahnuar continues the supervision of the removal of the dirt from k200 with the crane and the shaffat. He is also in chrge of the sequrity of the workmen.