Area AA – The Palace Area

Area AA

Sequence AAC

Giorgio Buccellati – November 2006
    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
         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
    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