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2009-8-2 | yM |
we continued excavating in k71. we removed 2 stones f225.1 and f225.5. we also removed the accumulation pile that was sitting on. Tomorrow we continue with the same strategy of uncovering the wall f227 in k104 and removing the floating stones f225 k72
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2009-8-3 | pC |
today we continue digging in the southern portion of k71: f223 is a natural accumulation abutting f219; while excavating q351 came out still plastic bags, probably from the animal hole in the western section. We then removed floating stones f225, while was not possible to continue digging with the stones in a small area. We took pictures, relays and then removed them. We then found a feature f230 which is full of pottery and small hand size pebbles. f230 is hard, crumby with some brick pieces. all those features are natural accumulations, therefore they do not show use of this area. The german excavation documents a floor surface on the northern side of f219 (B6-Inst. 32) at the elevation of ca. 9280 abutting f219 and date it to Mittani. On its southern part was found from them any floor surface. Under f230 was found a new feature f238, which was only started to excavate at the end of the day, therefore tomorrow we will dig it all and decide what type of feature it is.
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2009-8-5 | pC |
Today we found under f238 a sherd floor f240 in the eastern part of the square, instead in the western we were not able to follow it, probably was eroded or cut. We found instead a reddish bricky layer, which we excavated as f238 ( f238 was bricky and had some brick pieces). Directly under floor f240 and f238 was found a sloping compact surface which I interpreted as a glacis: f242 starts from wall f219 and in the eastern portion of the locus slopes sharply toward east. This is the glacis we were looking for in k71, which is probably the same as ^glaci s1. I decided to remove the floating stone f245 in the south-western part of the square and we found directly under it a lens full of pebbles, which is the same as f210 and f243 in k82, found also under the floating stones f212 (not directly because there was accumulation f241
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2009-8-6 | pC |
Today we started excavating on the eastern side of f219. I let the workmen clean all the stones and the surface, while it has been exposed since 3 years. I then assigned to the first 30 cm of accumulation f248 which is the topsoil. I then changed feature number into f251 which is the natural accumulation under the topsoil. We found two large stones sitting in f251 which are f251.1 and f251.2. We removed the stones while under them was only natural accumulation.
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2009-8-9 | pC |
today we finished removing the floor surface f258 which was a hard and compact surface reddish in color, platy in structure when picked and had some ashy pockets. This floor covered a very compact layer, which while we were exposing it in the norther portion of the square, it seemd bricky (a brickfall?). After exposing it all, in the southern part of the locus this layer was sharply sloping towars south, following the same slope as the mittani glacis f242. pC hypothesized that this red compact layer is the third millennium glacis, same as f164 in k84 and k104. Therefore we decided to see the relationship between this red feature, which is f260 and the mittani glacis f242. f260 where the wall f219 takes 90° angle to the north, slopes toward south and goes under f242. At the beginning was difficolt to understand the reason of the complete absence of glacis f242 above f260 in the northern part of k71: at the end of the day, after cleaning and removing stones f263 and the accumulation under them f264, was clear that glacis f260 was still used while glacis f242 was layed. f242 overlays f260 and in the point of the overlayng there are some stones. Other stones came out in the north-east corner of k71, which are f262. Today we were able to expose all the face of wall f218 but we still did not reach the bottom, but I presume it goes still deeper
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2009-8-10 | pC |
today we did not excavated in k71 while for this year we will stop to the level of glacis f242 and f260
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