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.ed T720
.ei yM
.rd T720
.ri yM

-dy today was the first day of excavation, so we spent the whole day cleaning the erea in which we are going to be excavating. We also cleaned the erea around J6 and the german trench k200. yM screaped the winter accumulatin layer that was sitting on top of f190 in k84, east of wall f129. We decided to give a new feature number to this accumulation, eaven if it was already partly excavated in the previous season. We also found in this layer a piece of an animal figurine q294.1. The afternoon work period will be dadicated to some work on the UGR and recovering the last features numbers from last seasons excavation, and doing object description.

.rd T721
.ri yM

-dy we started the second day of excavation by cleaning the khabur wall excavated by the german team in area C2 in k100, then we stareted removing the winter accumulation layer from k84 and k85: we decided to assign the same feature number f189, even if located in different loci. the second work period was spent scraping and cleaning the sections.

.rd T722
.ri yM

-dy today we started removing the brick fall layer f190 in k84; we found a broken grinding stone that we made in to a q item. Then we removed the following feature f191 whish is a thik layer of accumulations.

.rd T723
.ri yM

-dy Today we started working by removing the glacis layer f193, same as f63 in k84, next to wall f129; it was a very thick layer on the south but on the norther portion was thinner. We found an ash pit in the western portion of the square, which seems cutting into the red glacis f164. We removed then the fill of the pit f192. While two of our pick man where doing that, the third continued cleaning and scraping the sections in k200 and k85. We cleaned then the bin f192.

.rd T725
.ri yM
k 104
dy Today we started by cleaning the erea and then we took pictures of the k104 section because we are planning removing the stones f197 of the bin a7 and also excavating the pit f192, located under it. In order to remove the stones we removed first the back fill behind them; then we removed the stones and gave them a feature number f197 and continued removing the back fill. We excavated the soil around the stones together with some of the soil under them and kept the same feature number, which is f196. During the second work period we took pictures to show the situation after the stone removal, and then we started excavating the pit f192 that contained a big amount of pottery, but we did not reach the buttom of it yet. This work will be continued and probably finished tomorrow.

.rd T801
.ri yM
dy Today we continued excavating the pit f129 which we are approaching from the south to the north very sloly in an atempt to follow the red layer that runs under it f164. we also found a broken tannur f220 within the pit fill, that was removed after taking a picture of it. pC and sD drew the north section of k72 before we started removing the baulk to its north to try and uncover the line of stones runing north of it and forming an angle under the west part of the baulk and which we presume its the continuation of the revetment wall as m Omo suggested. this change of strategy is going to give us the chance also to follow the glacis layer that was discoverd last season. it will also allow us to find out if this presumed wall is in fact the eastern boundary of temple terrace. during the second work period, the excavation of the pit f192 continued in k104 until reching f200 which is also fill. on the other hand in k71 we started removing the surface of the baulk f223 which is a natural accumulation. in k73 we leveled the northen section which is actually a mud brick wall and sD and yM drew it because we are planing on removing the mud brick wall soon and the whole bin a7 eventually.