.bk J02 .fl S205pc.j .fd various for features .rd S305 .ri pC .ed S305 f 127 A12 v138 ;A12 v141 tc bo f128 sm wall with North-South orientation abutting apron f131 and wall f128: it is specular to wall f129 on the eastern side of staircase f130 and therfore has the same function: f129 and f127 enclose the eastern and western sides of the monumental access .rd R713 .ri pC f 128 sm revetment wall in k13 which continues also in J3 and J1. The stones are big in size and irregular. Between the stones there is mud, used as mortar. f128 abuts apron f131 f 129 sm Stone wall with North/West-South/East orientation in k85, k84 and k83. It runs along the staircase f130 and it abuts it. f129 consists of large and regular stones, which presents flat sides. For more details see also J6f129 f 130 sm steps with North-East/South-West orientation, located in k93 and k100. The upper face of the stones is flat and the size is very regular. f 131 sm monumental stepped access which is called in our documentation apron: it runs along the staircase f130. It consists at this stage of the excavation of 20 rows of stones running East-West and rising North/Est. The North-West edge is characterized by big and squared stones collapsed towards east. The lower part is better conservated than the upper part. f 132 sm f132 is the secondary apron, built West of the apron f131 and North of the oval wall f128. It consists of 12 rows of stones running West-Est and rising North/East, like the apron and the staircase. It is a second addition of the Second millenium (see also J03f10, J3f532, J3f556) f 128 A12 v51 f 129 A12 v44 f 1 tc co f130 f 130 A12 v43 f 131 A12 v65 f 132 A12 v51 f 133 A12 v59 df ly sm layer of bakaya in the gap of stones located between f132 and f128 ar f133 is the same layer excavated in J3 f581, between the revetment wall and the second apron, recognized as layer of bakaya. The elevation in J3 is 91.54: f133 is at 91.05, about 40 cm lower f 134 df ad A12 v56 ha f134 is the accumulation filling the gap of stones between f132 and f131. f 140 A12 v76 f 141 A12 v76 sm area of laminations located in front of apron f131. It is a hard and compact surface sloping toward south .ri mH ar laminations are clearly visible in the shade. These laminations were located in an area center and south of k4. It is possible that we went through earlier lamination layers with the big pick and just did not notice them. These laminations seem to continue to k13 and they seem to slightly slope towards south. In order to verify wheather we are indeed dealing with a slope we tried to follow them with a small pick (f141). The laminations did not seem to continue lower down except in patches. f 142 A12 v76a sm floor located South of wall f128 in k13. Khabur sherds liye horizontally ds patches whith plenty of pottery sherds all aligned horizontally. We determined that this area was a walking floor and defined it as f142. On the floor we found a decorated Khabur sherd q373.3 in situ. pr We took photos of this floor and the sherd. These are represented in v76. After the photos we tried to see whether the floor continued towards west by removing a few centimeters at a time with a small pick. The floor did not continue and thus we continued with the big pick. This area was removed as f140 .ri pC f 142 A12 v76 f 143 A12 v78 f 144 A12 v100 sm an east-west oriented line of large stone blocks in front of the apron f131. It could be a courtain wall, so that was built to retain the accumulations south of the apron. See also wall f224 in v115. ar The western end of this stone alignment is close to but not quite at the edge of k4 and k100. At an approximately correponding place on the other side of k100 we have the "doorjam" belonging to f129. These could perhaps be related. vVE made an observation that the line of stones seems to be continued by bricks or at least bricky material. gB inspected the area and agreed that the material was indeed bricky but he hesitated calling them bricks due to lack of clear faces. He suggested scraping the area in order to see whether they indeed were bricks. After this was done, they disappeared, although the area approximately between r445 and m3956 does contain lumps of melted bricks. Instead of being a brick wall, the stone alingment seems to continue towards east f 145 A12 v78 sm compact accumulation overlaying the last steps of the apron f131 f 147 A12 v78 sm f147 relates to three floating stones in k4 tc re f148 f 148 sm f148 is the column under the floating stones f147 A12 v78 tc co f150 f 150 sm ashy and red layer in front of apron f131, overlaying it. This feature shows a kind of human activity related to the apron A12 v81 A12 v100 f 151 A12 v100 f 152 A12 v81 f 153 A12 v90 f 154 A12 v115 f 155 A12 v81 tc co f144 f 158 A12 v79 f 159 A12 v82 f 162 A12 v83 f 170.7 A12 v89 f 171 A12 v87 sm f171 is clearly a use area, while plenty of tannur pieces, bone, gypsum pieces and ash was found. About 15-20 down the soil turns more compact and contains even more ash and charcoal. it is the same as f174 (and f183) f 174 A12 v85 sm f174 is characterized by the presence of tannur pieces, bones, gypsum and ash. About 15-20 cm down the soil turns more compact and contains more ash and charcoal. it is the same as f171 (and f183) f 175 A12 v85 f 176 A12 v85 f 177 sm northern baulk of k5. Crumby and hard accumulation, containing brick debris, probably same as f112, located at the same level df bf f 178 df bf ds soft bricky accumulation f 182 A12 v94 f 188 A12 v91a .ed R713 .ei pC f 108 f 99 ;tc ov brikfall tc ab f106 f 109 tc ab f104 f 79 tc co f110 f 56 tc co f116 f 35 tc co f121 f 32 tc co f98 tc co f97 tc ov f101 f 97 tc ov f98 f 103 tc ab f128 el 8966@bottom f 131 tc ab f130 ;tc ab f134 tc ab f128 ;tc ab f127 f 132 ;tc ab f134 tc ab f89 ;tc ab f133 f 133 tc ab f132 tc ab f128 f 134 tc ab f132 tc ab f131 k 101 nl k101 is the pottery column in k13, made in season 2005. in season 2004 probably was the intention do create a new locus k101 for k84 and k85, but because the excavation in k84-k85 during season 2004 was not continued, locus k101 was never created. k101 remains the pottery column in k13 f 118 tc ab f129 tc co f129 f 117 tc ab f129 tc co f129 f 113 tc ab f129 tc co f129 f 122 tc co f129 sm accumulation covering wall f129 .ri mH f 143 ar It is possible that wall f144 and apron f131 at a certain time retained soil accumulated here, and hence the process of accumulation was different to the north and south of f144. It seems that to the north the accumulation was faster and hence a slope formed to the south and south-west of stone features f144 and f151. I suspect that f143, which we at first thought might have been a pit, also formed as a result of these stones. f143 was located higher up in this corner than the stones, but their presence affected the accumulation process also higher up .ei pC .ed T220 .ri pC .rd T220 f 180 df bf ds north baulk of k5 soft in consistence with bricks f 181 df bf ds a crumbly and hard layer located above the brickfall f188: I define it brickmelt for similarities to the brickmelt found in J6 (see J6^bf1) and located at the same elevation. It is the same brickfall as in J6 f 183 tc ov f227 f 188 df bf sm brickfall related to a large collapse of a large structure to the east and found also in J6. It expands from east to West for 20 meters. f 189 df bf f 202 df bf f 207 df bf f 208 df bf f 210 df bf f 211 df bf f 216 df bf f 217 df bf f 218 df bf f 220 el 9004@bottom f 144 tc re f230 f 230 df bf f 226 df bf f 257 ar oblique stone is the specular stone of J6f100 and J6f177: these three stones are located to the sides of the monumental stircase and located here to symbolize the entrance to the staircase to reach the temple on the top f 260 df bf f 261 df bf ar in v103a and in the east section of k4 is clear that f261 is brickfall. It is a baulk and is located where was found f188. On the other hand brickfall comes from east and continued through k4, k14 without interruption f 273 df bf ds bricky melted and crumbly accumulation. nr the last feature excavated in k15 f 97 tc ov f99 f 43 el 9395@top f 123 el 9187@top