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-dy Yesterday we decided to excavate in k74, where we did a small trench to see the glacis under the latest glacis f107. We decided also to create a new locus k101 for this tranch. We encontered several layers of different glacis and we stopped when we found the baqaya glacis. In k85 we removed the glacis f110 and we found directly under it a floor of sherds. We removed the North baulk of k86 and we organized better the work of the removal of the dirt in k200.

k 101
ds k101 is defined by the relays r265 r264 r266 r267 and is 130cm large in East-West direction and 450cm N-S. It is a small trench in k74 to investigate the earlier glacis
dy Today we opened k101 to see the glacis under the glacis f107. f107 covers almost all k74 and under it there is a series of compact layers of probably other glacis. The first f107 is red and hard, then there is a grey hard layer, which is probably the same as f110 in k85. under this we found a baqaya layer, but still to confirm. We give no feature number to all this layers, because we still do not understand the stratigraphy: in the next days we will give a number. In the northern part of k101 there is a layer softer and full of pottery. we hypotized that was a pit and it is f126. In the North-West corner there is some baqaya

k 85
dy Today we started to remove the glacis f110 and we found under it a floor surface characterized by sherds lying flat and some small pebbles

f 110
ds when the glacis in k85 was removed, it was very hard, platy in structure, grey in colour. It is characterized by the presence of small pebbles (1cm) and gypsum.

k 86
dy Yesterday we removed the brickfall f124, which is the same as f86 and f75 in k85. There are fragments of tannur and a lot of stones

f 124
ds it is the brickfall in k86, which is the same as f86 and f75 in k85. There are fragments of tannur and a lot of stones

k 87
dy Yesterday we removed the North baulk of k87. We decided not to draw it, but only to make a good view and template it. It is only natural accumulations.

k 200
dy Yesterday we removed the dirt which was coming from k86 and k87, but also from J7. We had the shaffat and the crane which carryed a big zanbil. We had Ahnuar who supervised the work and 7 workmen in the trench, whith 4 on the top of k200.

-sg Yesterday we checked where the wall f130 should come in J6 and we decided that it comes West of the deep sounding J4k100. Therefore the wall f130 must stop after 1 meter. The strategy for the next week is still to go down in k85 and k84, but also to remove the pseudo baulk between k84 and the wall f129. removing 30 cm of it we will see the top of the wall and see if it turns to the South. To the North and East of it there is a completely different stratigraphy than to the South: in J4k100 we found between the elevation of 8900 and 8700 accumulations which sloped toward South (J4f150, J4f158, J4f160): these are very compact and red accumulations, the last ones with Late Chalcolithic pottery. This stratigraphy tells us that we were excavating inside the temple mound and that to the South there is a boundary where this slope stops. To the South of the wall f130, the section of k200, shows a completely different stratigraphy (v43): the layers are typical for accumulations abutting a wall, which is f130. this also was one of the reasons to believe that the wall continues to the East at least for a couple of meters. The situation now is different and we have to think about another scenario. The wall f130 stops after 1m and we do not know what kind of boundary is to the south of it: there is another structure? do the wall go east for 1 meter and then turns South? There is any kind of structure and the temple mound goes down toward south in the Fourth and Third millennium and then in the Second millennium accumulations covered it? We will continue to excavate in k84, k85, k86, k87 and we will investigate for this possibilities.