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Unit Book J4

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

J4^Glacis3

Processed on 2025-12-27

1. OVERVIEW

Roster Date Author Record
Includes other label 2010-02-15 sC f121 (brickfall)
f150 (layer)
f158 (accululation B)
f160 (accululation B) [Input: ZJ911yM.j]
Summary 2010-02-15 sC A coating hard surface made with mud mixed and small calcite inclusions. [Input: ZJ911yM.j]

2. IDENTIFICATION

Designation

Roster Date Author Record
Description (summary) 2010-02-15 sC A very hard and compact layer that follows the sloap of the Tell. f150, f158, f160 are the same glacis layer. [Input: ZJ911yM.j]

3. STRATIGRAPHY

Deposition

Roster Date Author Record
Notes on deposition 2010-02-15 sC 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) 2010-02-15 sC s49MZA (Building activities) [Input: ZJ911yM.j]
Stratigraphic reasons of assignment 2010-02-15 sC 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 2010-02-15 sC This layer of hard, compacted coating of baqaya or other types of soil, functions at directing rainwater over the top of the wall, thus preventing erosions in the areas behind the wall, which could be a source of great pressure that would lead to the collapse of the wall. ^Glacis3 was made to protect the stone wall located to the west, J02 f129. [Input: ZJ911yM.j]