| Description (summary) |
2026-03-04 |
pC |
southwestern wall face of the western section of ^wall6 in J5, immediately after the wall curves eastward. The first course of the wall is founded directly on top of ^wall8. The exposed face consists of seven irregular courses of predominantly medium-sized stones, with a few large blocks. The masonry is composed of stones of varying quality, ranging from unshaped, rounded rough blocks to roughly parallelepipedal blocks. The lower three courses are assigned to ^wall6 and are comparatively regular, with each stone in an upper course positioned over the joint between two stones in the course below, creating a bonded masonry pattern. The joints range from 2 to 30 cm in thickness and are filled with mud mortar, with smaller stones used as chinking in the wider joints. From the fourth course upward, the masonry becomes less regular, with larger, roughly rounded stones and joints reaching up to 40 cm in thickness. This upper portion of the wall is assigned to ^wall9 and ^wall10. [Input: ZK304pC.j] |