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Unit Book J4

The Eastern Top of the Main Staircase (Version 1a)

J4^Glacis3

Processed on 2025-09-28

1. OVERVIEW

Roster Date Author Record
Includes other label 2025-09-26 yM f121 (brickfall)
f150 (layer)
f158 (accululation B)
f160 (accululation B) [Input: ZJ911yM.j]
Summary 2025-09-26 yM A coating hard surface done with mud mixed to small calcite inclusions and small sherds [Input: ZJ911yM.j]

2. IDENTIFICATION

Designation

Roster Date Author Record
Description (summary) 2025-09-26 yM A very hard and compact layer that follows the sloap of the Tell mound. f150, f158, f160 are the same glacis layer. [Input: ZJ911yM.j]

3. STRATIGRAPHY

Deposition

Roster Date Author Record
Notes on deposition 2025-09-26 yM The top most part of f121 was recognized as part of the brickfall ^ bf2, after examination related to the excavation of J6. the lower part is the one that is considered part of ^ Glacis3. [Input: ZJ911yM.j]

Time Sequencing

Roster Date Author Record
Strata (included within phase) 2025-09-26 yM s49MZA [Input: ZJ911yM.j]
Stratigraphic reasons of assignment 2025-09-26 yM The stratigraphic assignement of this glacis layer was done during the excavations of J6 when k100 was subsumed under j6. The pottery recovered within J6f164 revealed Chalcolithic sherds, dating this and other layers related with this (cfr. for example, J06 f158, J06 f168, J06 f164 and all the features within s49) back to the 3rd millennium BC. [Input: ZJ911yM.j]

4. TYPOLOGY

Function

Roster Date Author Record
Notes on function 2025-09-26 yM This layer of hard, compacted coating of baqaya or other soil functions at directing rainwater over the wall top, thus preventing erosiom of the back of the wall. ^Glacis3 was made to protect a stone wall located on the west, J02 f129. [Input: ZJ911yM.j]