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k 15
dy Today we continued to dig in k15 f273 until breakfast. We first excavated 2m W from m4213 (q731, q742) and 1m from the W section of k15 (q743). After breakfast I moved Mamu (who was digging here) in k5 to help Shallal in digging f277 W to the elevator. 

k 5
dy Today we continued to dig f277 in k5. Firstly we start by removing soil only in the western area of k5, which was left higer since yesterday (q730, q735), then we continuing down in the whole unit. After breakfast Omar was picking in the eastern area of k5 (q738, and E to the elevator) while Mamu and Shallal in the western part of the unit (q743, W to the elevator). In the afernoon we continued excavating here. First we define the limits in k5 of (for the sections) in the S and in the E the area of k5, leaving 40cm along the southern and westsern section of k5, then we start by removing the soil only in the southern part of the unit, which was left higer from the morning excavation (q749), and we dig W to the elevator (q753) for just one pickrun; we stop digging in k5 because we move Shallal in k

-sg About the swifing of the doil from k14 and k15. In a first moment on the 901 we were swifiting separately the soli from k14 and k15, but, as we realize that was too much time consuming trying to keep them separately, we decided to switf togheter the soil removed from both k14 and k15. Today we recovered two qlots from the swifting of k14 and k15: q734 and q740.

k 4
dy Today we continued to dig f286 in k4. Firstly we start by removing soil only in the south-eastern area of k4, which was left higer since yesterday (q729); then we continuing down in the whole unit (half an hour before breakfast). The work proceeded very slowly after breakfast since the elevator located in k5 was not working, and because the workmen had to remove the dirty using the little baskets. Therefore, in the second half of the morning the work in k4 has been basically of removing the dirty from the pickrun done in all the unit before breakfast. We also removed the little baulk left on the eastern area of k4, in order to avoid contamination in k 100 (to this baulk we have assigned a new feature number, f296, and the pottery has been collected in the q748). At the end of the morning we clean and scraped very well the whole area and expose a very nice and uniform surface, basically constituited by melted bricks (red and gray in colour). In the afternoon we called DAdin, we took a picture of the whole area, and then we start digging again. In the eastern area of k4 two pits have been noticed (r982, r983) quadrangolar in shape. Therefore, while another team of workmen was excavating in the western area of k4, we moved in the pit f298 Shallal, who dug f299 (the fill of the pit) and in f300 Shallal, who dug f301 (the fill of the pit). The fill of the pit is medium soft, a bit crumble, with ash areas and poor in pottery sherds.

k 14
dy Before start excavating in k14 I assigned a feature number to the wall running E-W (f288) exposed yesterday (after we removed the wall f224) and Kamiran define better the section of this wall (f289, q289). At the same time Masum dug f290 (q737), a little area characterized by the presence of ash in the corner between the wall f288 (N of it) and f127 (the wall running N-S). Then we scraped all the area and we noticed different accomulations: all of them slope toward the south area of the unit (therefore there is a difference in high between the south and the north area of the unit, between 5 to 20cm); Kamiran and Masums started by removing the first of these ones, f293 (q744). f293 is a layer located aproximately 1m N of wall f288, characterized by a very fine and compact accomulation, plastic in consistence (when wet but also when dry) and brown in colour. Then they removed f295 (q747), a layer located in the SW corner of k14 (160m W from r980, and 120m N to r980), that does not present a big difference in elevation even if it slopes a bit toward the south area of k14. In this layer have been found a seal impression that mKB dates to the late Akkadian period. We stop dig here for today: in the afternoon we take some photos of k14 (with feature f297, v124, v124a, v124b) and some paticular views of the N baluk of k14 and of the section of the wall f127 (v125, v125a, v125b, v125c).