Horizontal surfaces

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Horizontal surfaces

In J6 we encountered several floors. Floors are, by definition, the compaction of soil with components such as pottery sherds and/or pebbles lying in a single plane and generally flat. In some cases the floor has been compacted by people walking by, in other examples we have floors where elements such as pebbles and sherds have been deliberately placed and compacted. Pavements are horizontal built surfaces.

An example of a pavement is the stone pavement of the Palace in A16.

In J6 we record one pavement.

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Floors

A series of floors were found south and south-east of wall f129 and related to the use of the staircase in J2:

feature	description	location	special objects	image
floor 2	sherd and pebble mud floor	under f166 and glacis 1, above glacis 2	animal figurine q237.1, bead q238.2
floor 4	brown compacted mud surface with several small pebbles and some sherds	The floor was covered by a thick accumulation f148	head of a horse q261.1, metal blade q262.2
floor 5	brown compacted and hard soil with few sherds	abutting the estern betili f177, covered by accumulation f170	metal pin i19, blade i21
floor 6	highly compacted fine brown soil with sherds and pebbles, some seeds and charchoal	covers whole k84, abuts betili f177, f100, overlay glacis glacis6	animal figurine q394.3
floor 9	floor surface with small pebbles and sherds	covers whole k84, in front of betili, under floor 6, overlays glacis 6	-
floor 10	3cm thin and hard floor with few sherds and pebbles	in front of the betili, above floor f312	-
floor 11	10cm thick reddish orange brown highly compacted floor, some laminations, mud patches, damaged (same as J2f359)	in front of the betili	-

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Pavements

A pebble and sherd pavement f239 was found inside the bin a7. The pavement was exposed in unit J4, therefore see f143 for a complete description of the feature.