Preface

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Unit K1

Unit K1 is here presented as a digital books. K1 was among the first units excavated at Tell Mozan, as part of the first two seasons of soundings and survey in 1984 and 1985. It consists of a sounding against the City Wall in the part of the mound (see figure below).

K1 is especially characterised by a closed burnt deposit (f16) which contained a number of seal impressions and ceramic sherds, dated to the mid-third millennium (Early Dynastic III or Horizon 3 in the Urkesh stratigraphic sequence). It is therefore an important unit not only for the presence of the City Wall, but also for our understanding of the occupation of the site in this period, in particular in relation to administrative practices. Although these early excavations already represent the beginnings of the recording system still in use, much of the data are not currently available in the canonical format found in many other unit books. Nevertheless, it was deemed appropriate to here present the available material, in particular with a view to providing a ‘home’ for the Early Dynastic glyptic corpus from K1. This can be found in detailed format on the right-hand side under items and q-items, and as a synthesis on the lefthand-side (as well as in the typological ED glyptics book [ADD LINK]). Other material is instead presented on the left-hand side only, in order to offer as complete a view of K1 as possible.

K1 was published as part of the monograph on the first two seasons, and the full text can be found here: Mozan 1 [ADD REFERENCE]. The information in this digital book is a combination of the results published in that monograph, and an update of the material based on a thorough review of the available records.

Note: This is a work in progress. Unit A16 was used as a template to set up K1, and until work is in a more advanced stage, references to A16 may therefore be found in various pages.