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Unit Book J6

The Northeastern End of the Temple Terrace and the Betili (Version 1a)

J6f324

Processed on 2025-01-08

1. OVERVIEW

Roster Date Author Record
Included in other label 2009-07-17 pC ^wall13 (w) [Input: U717PC2.J]
Category !! !! installation
Best definition 2009-08-30 yM wall [Input: T827YM2.J]
Best image 2010-08-04 pC
v212 [Input: U804PC.J]

2. IDENTIFICATION

Designation

Roster Date Author Record
Description (summary) 2009-08-26 yM bricks in the north western corner of k82 between wall f218 and wall f129. The size of these bricks is 33 by 8cm and they are unbaked bricks. These bricks have a distinctive reddish brown color and a lot of white inclusions in their soil and some small animal bones. The mortar between these bricks is very compacted and hard and there is an ashy spot on the northern side instead of the mortar. these bricks are oblique [Input: T827YM.J]

3. STRATIGRAPHY

Recovery/Assignment

Roster Date Author Record
Argument 2009-08-26 yM since there is no empty space behind the bricks, and since some of these bricks go under wall f218 we are now assuming that they might be a part of an earlier structure and that wall f218 was built on top of it. [Input: T827YM.J]
2009-08-26 yM we thinking that those bricks might be a foundation box. [Input: T827YM.J]

Volumetric Localization

Roster Date Author Record
Locus 2009-08-30 yM k82 [Input: T827YM2.J]
M#/elev @top 2009-08-30 yM m6202 [Input: T827YM2.J]

Contact Association

Roster Date Author Record
Type of contact: latest events 2009-09-02 yM f129 (wall) abuts f324 (wall) [Input: T902YM.J]
2009-09-02 yM f218 (wall) covers f324 (wall) [Input: T902YM.J]
2009-09-02 yM f256 (isolated stone) covers f324 (wall) [Input: T902YM.J]
Type of contact: contemporary events/movable items 2009-08-25 !! q479.1 (carbon sample) sits in f324 (wall) [Input: T727YM4.J]
2009-08-25 !! q479.2 (sample) sits in f324 (wall) [Input: T727YM4.J]
2009-08-25 yM q479 (bones, pottery) sits in f324 (wall) [Input: T727YM4.J]

Time Sequencing

Roster Date Author Record
Stratum (to which element belongs) 2010-07-29 pC s66J6A [Input: U815PC.J]
Phase (to which element belongs) 2010-07-29 !! h3lJ6A [Input: U815PC.J]
Stratigraphic reasons of assignment 2010-07-30 pC located under walls f219 and f129. It could be a substructure for the staircase or the mud brick glacis under the staircase, or as we first discovered it a foundation box. In the first two possibilities the wall is built before the main phase of the temple terrace, which seems more likely. In the secon hypothesis it is contemporary to walls f129 and f219 [Input: U730PC.J]

4. TYPOLOGY

Morphology

Roster Date Author Record
Ware or Material, species 2009-08-30 yM soil [Input: T827YM2.J]
Color 2009-08-30 yM strong brown [Input: T827YM2.J]
Color number (Munsell) 2009-08-30 yM 7.5YR 4/6 [Input: T827YM2.J]
Hardness, compaction 2009-08-30 yM hard [Input: T827YM2.J]

6. REFERENCE

Analogical Record

Roster Date Author Record
View/drawing of features

v211
2009-08-18 yM [Input: T819PC.J]

v211a
2009-08-18 yM [Input: T819PC.J]

v211b
2009-08-18 yM [Input: T819PC.J]

v211c
2009-08-18 yM [Input: T819PC.J]

v212
2009-08-25 yM [Input: TX04PC.J]

v212a
2009-08-25 yM [Input: TX04PC.J]

v213
2009-08-25 yM [Input: TX04PC.J]

v213a
2009-08-25 yM [Input: TX04PC.J]

v214
2009-08-25 yM [Input: TX04PC.J]

v215
2009-08-25 yM [Input: TX04PC.J]