Unit Book A16

The Courtyard of the Tupkish Palace - Version 2

A16 Synthetic View / Stratigraphy

Strata sequence for unit A16 (AAC)

Giorgio Buccellati – November 2007

This strata sequence was superseded by the AAH strata sequence in June 2016.

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Introduction

The strata definition currently in use is labeled AAC, as it was established in September 17, 2001. Here one will find the data that are applicable to A16. The full AAC sequence is given in the MZ sitewide digital book.

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The strata definition chart (AAC)

phase stratum sub-sr definition of stratum
     and of substratum
6b 1 surface wash and erosion
2 sod layer, top soil
3 disturbed upper layer
4 removal of ancient stones; gully wash; laminations
5 modern burials
6a 6 ancient wadi
7 brick decomposition
5c 8 houses
a      great brickfall
b      erosion and consequent cut
c      abandonment
d      accumulations
e      minor rebuilding
9 houses
a      higher accumulations within houses
b      tumuli burials
c      leveling; construction and first floors/accumulations; A15-A16 street
5b 10 houses
a      higher accumulations within houses
b      construction and first floors/accumulations
5a 11 scattered (extramural) occupation; not directly related to house use
a      burials; small pit; pottery kilns;
     tannurs; fragments of walls and hard accumulation in the south
c      depression for mudbrick pitting
d      early dumping in widened pits and depression
12 scattered (extramural) occupation: directly related to house use
a storage pits (large)
b pottery kilns in A15
13 scattered (extramural) occupation: house related
a      burials
b      tannurs?
c      pebble lenses and accumulations (A15f174)
4b 14 scattered (extramural) occupation: house related
a      tannurs
b      storage pits (small)
c      pebble lenses, retaining walls in A15
15 scattered (extramural) occupation: house related
a      storage pits (small)
c      pebble lenses; retaining walls in A15
4a 16 scattered (extramural) occupation: house related
a      burials
17 first reshaping of surface after abandonment of Palace
a      accumulations
b      leveling and retaining berms
3 18-21 (non-existent, possibly thin accumulations in paved Palace courtyard
22 jar smash; thin accumulations in paved Palace courtyard
2       Palace use
      23 a-b      non-existent
c      stone pavement; baked bricks below pavement; red packing
1       pre-Palace evidence
           material from later cuts

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