MZA phase |
AAC phase |
AAB strata |
AAC strata |
definition of stratum and of substratum |
9m | 6b | 1 | 1 | surface wash and erosion |
2 | 2 | sod layer, top soil | ||
3 | 3 | disturbed upper layer | ||
4 | 4 | removal of ancient stones; gully wash; laminations | ||
5 | 5 | modern burials | ||
8? | 6a | - | 6 | ancient wadi |
- | 7 | brick decomposition | ||
6c | 5c | 6 | 8 | houses |
a | great brick fall | |||
b | erosion and subsequent cut | |||
c | abandonment | |||
d | accumulations | |||
e | minor rebuilding | |||
9 | houses | |||
a | higher accumulation within houses | |||
b | tumuli burials | |||
c | leveling; construction and first floors; A15-16 street | |||
6b | 5b | 7 | 10 | houses |
a | higher accumulations within houses | |||
b | constrcution and first floors | |||
6a | 5a | 11 | scattered extra-mural occupation: not directly related to house use | |
a | A15: burials, small pit; pottery kilns; tannurs; fragments of walls and hard accumulation in South |
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b | late dumping in depression | |||
c | depression for mudbrick pitting | |||
d | early dumping in widened pits and depression | |||
12 | scattered (extramural) occupation: directly related to house use | |||
a | storage pits (large) | |||
b | (A15: pottery kilns) | |||
13 | scattered (extramural) occupation: house related | |||
a | burials | |||
b | storage pits (small) | |||
c | pebble lenses, retaining walls (A16 bottom of brown wall) | |||
5h | 4b | 8 | 14 | scattered (extramural) occupation: house related |
a | tannurs | |||
b | late dumping in depression | |||
c | pebble lenses, retaining walls (A16 bottom of brown wall) | |||
9 | 15 | scattered (extramural) occupation: house related | ||
a | storage pits (small) | |||
b | pebble lenses, retaining walls (A16: no retaining walls) | |||
5c | 4a | 10 | 16 | scattered (extramural) occupation: house related |
a | burials | |||
11 | 17 | first reshaping of surface after abandonment of palace | ||
a | accumulations | |||
b | leveling and retaining berms | |||
4m | 3 | 12-15 | 18-21 | (non-existent – or thin accumulation in paved courtyard) |
16 | 22 | A16: jar smash, thin accumulation in paved courtyard (or s19-21?); A15: higher well in room H6; wall blocking southern end of H4; floor north of same wall |
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4c | 2 | 17a-b | 23a-b | (non-existent) |
17c | 23c | A16: stone pavement, baked bricks as sub-pavement, red packing A15: lower well in H6; stone “blob” in south l |