| 2026-03-04 |
pC |
Wall with north-northeast, south-southwest orientation flanking the staircase in J2 for all its length. The wall is 12.67m long, 1.58m wide at the base and 1.20m wide at the top. It starts at the southern side with two stones set in oblique fashion (Betili f100, f177, and stone f186) and ends abutting wall f218. The eastern face of the wall is exposed up to the base in a deep sounding. Here the wall is 8 courses high (2.85m). The northern end of the wall is only 1.80m high and rests on top of a mudbrick wall (f324). The masonry consists of medium sized (20 to 50cm wide, 15 to 40cm high) irregular and angular shaped bloks, roughly dressed and with flat sides, set in horizontally laid courses with mortar betwheen the joints. The topmost course of stones is f127. [Input: ZK304pC.j] |