| Substantive contradictions |
2009-04-03 |
jW |
In the course of a comprehensive review of features associated with Specific Labels it became apparent that the evidence suggesting that this feature was a buttress to the original revetment wall, f189, and hence belonged to Stratum 65 (Early Dynastic period), was weak. Although f199 abuts f189, it also abuts the late Mittani period wall, f3. All we see of f199 are surface stones. (We have not dug the surrounding accumulation.) They are similar to other groups of stones near both f3 (f4) and f189 (f6). Since we know so little about what comprises f199, the more conservative view is to associate it with the wall structure which encloses it, f3. Therefore the appropriate stratum of f199 should be Stratum 14c (Mittani period) in the JPC series. [Input: T403JW.j] |