; File processed on 2025-02-20 ; J6a1 A20 !!_!! !! installation A21 2008-08-11_S811PC.J !! pit A35 2010-08-04_U804PC.J pC v45 B10 2008-08-11_S811PC.J pC pit B11 2008-08-11_S811PC.J pC a1 is located in k74 and consists in the cut f92, the brickmelt f64 and the wall f76 which was cut by f92; The fill of the pit is f87 and f73. The pit is round in shape and not deep(about 40cm) G3 2008-08-11_S811PC.J pC The pit was dug into the brickfall f64 and into the wall f76. G11 2008-08-11_S811PC.J pC f64 G11 2008-08-11_S811PC.J pC f73 G11 2008-08-11_S811PC.J pC f76 G11 2008-08-11_S811PC.J pC f87 G11 2008-08-11_S811PC.J pC f92 G13 2008-08-11_S811PC.J !! q127 G13 2008-08-11_S811PC.J !! q130 G13 2008-08-11_S811PC.J !! q132 G13 2008-08-11_S811PC.J !! q145 G13 2008-08-11_S811PC.J !! q150 G13 2008-08-11_S811PC.J !! q155 G13 2008-08-11_S811PC.J !! q160 G13 2008-08-11_S811PC.J !! q161 I1 2010-07-29_U815PC.J !! s157-J6A I1 2010-07-29_U815PC.J !! s160-J6A I1 2010-07-29_U815PC.J !! s170-J6A I3 2010-07-29_U815PC.J !! h7d-J6A I3 2010-07-29_U815PC.J !! h7e-J6A M99 2008-08-11_S811PC.J pC Is not clear the function of this pit, while we did not found organic material in the fill. we think that was a storage pit O11 2008-08-02_S809CJC.J hQ v42 O11 2008-08-02_S809CJC.J hQ v42a O11 2008-08-04_S809CJC.J pC v45 ; J6a2 A20 !!_!! !! installation A21 2008-08-11_S811PC.J !! installation A35 2010-08-04_U804PC.J pC v78a B10 2008-08-11_S811PC.J pC installation B11 2008-08-11_S811PC.J pC The situation East of the staircase at the end of mittani, where only the glacis and the memory stones f127 were visible. A surface which was labeled glacis covers the area and comes to the stones f127, which are the upper part of the flanking staircase wall, to the West and continues to the South. B11 2009-01-21_SZ31PC.J pC a2 consists in wall f127 and the glacis f63 (^glacis1): the glacis is a hard and compact surface which is sloping and comes to wall f127, where possibly it ends. In this case the glacis has the function of glacis in j3, were a series of glacis were layed on top of the temple mound and end aganist the revetment wall. For similarity of situation the surfaces in J6 were named also glacis. G3 2008-08-11_S811PC.J pC glacis f63 (^glacis1) is located under stones f127 and f152, therefore should be dated before walls f101 and f152, f127. The glacis was visible while theese wall were built, and were used in the same time. Walls f127, f101 and f152 are all 'memory stones' build on top of previous Third Millennium walls. G11 2008-08-11_S811PC.J !! f170 G11 2008-08-11_S811PC.J pC f63 G11 2008-08-11_S811PC.J pC f101 G11 2008-08-11_S811PC.J pC f107 G11 2008-08-11_S811PC.J pC f109 G11 2008-08-11_S811PC.J pC f110 G11 2008-08-11_S811PC.J pC f127 G11 2008-08-11_S811PC.J pC f152 G12 2008-08-11_S811PC.J !! i7 G12 2008-08-11_S811PC.J !! i17 G12 2008-08-11_S811PC.J !! i19 G12 2008-08-11_S811PC.J !! i21 G13 2008-08-11_S811PC.J !! q182 G13 2008-08-11_S811PC.J !! q205 G13 2008-08-11_S811PC.J !! q208 G13 2008-08-11_S811PC.J !! q214 G13 2008-08-11_S811PC.J !! q219 G13 2008-08-11_S811PC.J !! q247 G13 2008-08-11_S811PC.J !! q276 G13 2008-08-11_S811PC.J !! q279 G13 2008-08-11_S811PC.J !! q290 I1 2010-07-29_U815PC.J !! s173-J6A I1 2010-07-29_U815PC.J !! s174-J6A I1 2010-07-29_U815PC.J !! s180-J6A I1 2010-07-29_U815PC.J !! s200-J6A I3 2010-07-29_U815PC.J !! h7a-J6A I3 2010-07-29_U815PC.J !! h7d-J6A M99 2008-08-11_S811PC.J pC The glacis was laid to protect the temple mound and coming aganist the wall f127 (or under it). wall f127 remembers the function of wall f129, as a boundary of the Staircase. East of the staircase and of wall f127 the temple monumental acces finishes and therefore f127 is the eastern boundary in Mittani time. The glacis can be seen as a hard floor surface, sloping and following the form of the temple mound. O11 2008-08-19_S828CVP.J pc v78a ; J6a3 A20 !!_!! !! installation A21 2008-09-07_S902PC.J !! pit A35 2010-08-04_U804PC.J pC v86 B10 2008-09-07_S902PC.J pC pit B11 2008-09-07_S902PC.J pC the pit cut f122 and the fill f142: it consists in a shallow pit filled with ash and lot of pottery, in some cases also almost complete vessels. The continuation of the pit is in J4k100. G11 2008-09-07_S902PC.J pC f122 G11 2008-09-07_S902PC.J pC f142 G12 2008-09-07_S902PC.J !! i11 G12 2008-09-07_S902PC.J !! i12 G13 2008-09-07_S902PC.J !! q231 G13 2008-09-07_S902PC.J !! q249 G13 2008-09-07_S902PC.J !! q252 G13 2008-09-07_S902PC.J !! q253 G13 2008-09-07_S902PC.J !! q255 I1 2010-07-29_U815PC.J !! s190-J6A I3 2010-07-29_U815PC.J !! h7d-J6A M99 2008-09-07_S902PC.J pC a3 is a shallow pit which was filled with several layers of ash, ashy soil and lot of sherds: it is not clear the function of this pit, while is elongated and seems not to be a storage pit, as a1. O11 2008-08-20_S828CVP.J cVP v86 O11 2008-08-20_S828CVP.J cVP v86a O11 2008-08-21_S828CVP.J cVP v90 ; J6a4 A20 !!_!! !! installation A21 2008-09-07_S902PC.J pC installation A35 2010-08-04_U804PC.J pC v147 B10 2008-09-07_S902PC.J pC installation B11 2008-09-07_S902PC.J pC a wall f129 frames the staircase to the east and the two oblique stones are located to its southern end and are bonded with it G3 2008-09-07_S902PC.J pC the wall f129 and f130 are bonded, as well the oblique stones f177 and f100. They belong to the same construction phase but also they mark the entrance to the monumental access. To the East of wall f129 there is no structure related to the staircase and therefore this is the main entrance underlined by the oblique stones G11 2008-09-07_S902PC.J pC f99 G11 2008-09-07_S902PC.J pC f100 G11 2008-09-07_S902PC.J pC f129 G11 2008-09-07_S902PC.J pC f130 G11 2008-09-07_S902PC.J pC f177 G13 2008-09-07_S902PC.J !! q484 I1 2010-07-29_U815PC.J !! s660-J6A I3 2010-07-29_U815PC.J !! h3m-J6A M99 2008-09-07_S902PC.J pC a4 marks the entrance to the staircase. The wall is the eastern boundary of the staircase and the obelisks underline the importance of this place. The ideally support the wall like a buttress. another specular wall with obelisk is located to the west of the apron. O11 2008-09-06_SX22PC.J pC p11 O11 2008-09-17_S911PC.J pC v125a O11 2008-09-17_S911PC.J pC v126 O11 2008-09-17_S911PC.J pC v126a O11 2008-09-17_S911PC.J pC v126b O11 2008-09-17_S911PC.J pC v131 O11 2008-09-23_S911PC.J pC v134 O11 2008-09-23_S911PC.J pC v134a O11 2008-09-23_S911PC.J pC v134b O11 2008-09-23_S911PC.J pC v138 O11 2009-07-23_T802PC2.J sD v147 ; J6a5 A20 !!_!! !! installation A21 2008-09-13_S913CVP.J cVP installation A35 2010-08-04_U804PC.J pC v117 B10 2008-09-13_S913CVP.J cVP installation B11 2008-09-13_S913CVP.J cVP Wall f166 and features associated to it, in k74. Findings inside: a small piece of crucible (q288.1) in the edge of accumulation f167. It was resting precisely over the beginning of the bricky projection of the wall, the beginning of the new glacis f187. Also, a black cylinder seal, i18, at middle high in the excavation of the accumulation f167, in an area where the consistence of the soil was more bricky than ashy. G3 2008-09-13_S913CVP.J cVP Glacis f107 partially covers ^wall7 and also covers ashy accumulation f167, that itself abuts the same wall. G4 2008-09-13_S913CVP.J cVP This aggregates is not based in any functional or structural meaning, yet, but a general stratigraphical one. G11 2008-09-13_S913CVP.J cVP f107 G11 2008-09-13_S913CVP.J cVP f166 G11 2008-09-13_S913CVP.J cVP f167 G11 2008-09-13_S913CVP.J cVP f187 G12 2008-09-13_S913CVP.J cVP i18 G13 2008-09-13_S913CVP.J !! q182 G13 2008-09-13_S913CVP.J !! q208 G13 2008-09-13_S913CVP.J !! q288 G99 2008-09-13_S913CVP.J cVP The wall was ascribed tentatively to Phase h33, more on account of stratigraphical reasons. Even if the cylinder seal found in f167 was preliminary assesed as Early Akkadian, the pottery associated with it has mitanni components. That means that the wall f166, along with glacis f187 (^glacis 3), could have been built during Phase h33, but the accumulation of ashes and bricky crups forming f167, above it, and also the upper glacis f107, ^glacis2, are Mittani. Also, we think that there could be a connection between f187 found in k74, abutting wall f166, and glacis f164 in k84; they are both red and bricky and at a similar elevation. f187 would slope down in a general SW direction. I1 2010-07-29_U815PC.J !! s173-J6A I1 2010-07-29_U815PC.J !! s180-J6A I1 2010-07-29_U815PC.J !! s500-J6A I3 2010-07-29_U815PC.J !! h4m-J6A I3 2010-07-29_U815PC.J !! h7d-J6A M99 2008-09-07_S902PC.J pC a5 is probably a larger building. We have only a small portion of a wall. O11 2008-08-27_S828CVP.J cVP v117 ; J6a6 A20 !!_!! !! installation A21 2008-09-13_S902PC.J pC structure A35 2010-08-04_U804PC.J pC v21 A98 2008-09-13_S902PC.J pC this building was excavated in season 2001 (Gebäude XV: P.Pfälzner MDOG 134 2001, p138) B10 2008-09-13_S902PC.J pC installation B11 2008-09-13_S902PC.J pC walls f24 and f27 are the southern and eastern walls of a larger stone structure: we have only these walls but is probably a rectangular building. The stones are large and rough. G11 2008-09-13_S902PC.J pC f24 G11 2008-09-13_S902PC.J pC f27 G13 2008-09-13_S902PC.J pC q34.1 I1 2010-07-29_U815PC.J !! s660-J6A I3 2010-07-29_U815PC.J !! h3m-J6A M99 2008-09-13_S902PC.J pC this building was probably the southern gate to the temple terrace: it is dated to EDII and the building technique is the same as for the walls of the terrace (revetment wall). The orientation of the building reflects the same orientation as the staircase. The plaza in the 3. millennium was a free space beginning from this point. Probably at the beginning of the second millennium the limits of the plaza were more to the North and this building was anymore used. Another possibility is that is a corner wall and not a building; in this case is the south and east boundary of the plaza O11 2008-07-22_S809CJC.J hQ v21 O11 2008-09-23_S911PC.J pC v135 O11 2008-09-23_S911PC.J pC v135a O11 2008-09-23_S911PC.J pC v135b ; J6a7 A20 !!_!! !! installation A21 2009-07-28_T725PC.J !! bin A35 2010-08-04_U804PC.J pC v232 B10 2009-07-28_T725PC.J pC bin B11 2009-07-28_T725PC.J pC a7 is the bin located in k73 and k83. It is a mudbrick half mound structure with stone basement f197 and f201. The mudbrick walls are preserved for a height less than 50 cm. Inside a pebble floor f239. C1 2009-07-28_T725PC.J pC the structure was excavated during 2007 season as a J4 feature G4 2009-07-28_T725PC.J pC walls f201 and f197 are the basement for walls f234 and f233, while the floor f233 is located inside the structure G11 2009-07-28_T725PC.J pC f197 G11 2009-07-28_T725PC.J pC f201 G11 2009-07-28_T725PC.J pC f233 G11 2009-07-28_T725PC.J pC f234 G11 2009-07-28_T725PC.J pC f239 I1 2010-07-29_U815PC.J !! s170-J6A I3 2010-07-29_U815PC.J !! h7d-J6A M99 2009-07-28_T725PC.J pC the function of the bin is not clear, while inside was found no particular item or vessel. Probably was a storage small structure. The location next to the staircase, which during the construction and use of the bin was still fully in use (there are modifications and repairs on the upper portion of the staircase), therefore it can be possible that the bin was used in function to some ritual practices related to the plaza area. O11 2008-09-17_S911PC.J pC v128 O11 2008-09-17_S911PC.J pC v130 O11 2009-07-19_T802PC2.J yM v144 O11 2009-07-23_T802PC2.J sD v147 O11 2009-07-25_T802PC2.J yM v149 O11 2009-07-25_T802PC2.J yM v149a O11 2009-07-25_T802PC2.J yM v150 O11 2009-07-25_T802PC2.J yM v152 O11 2009-07-25_T802PC2.J yM v153 O11 2009-07-25_T802PC2.J yM v153a O11 2009-07-25_T802PC2.J yM v154 O11 2009-07-25_T802PC2.J yM v156 O11 2009-07-25_T802PC2.J yM v157 O11 2009-07-27_T802PC2.J yM v162 O11 2009-07-30_T802PC2.J yM v165 O11 2009-07-30_T802PC2.J yM v165a O11 2009-08-11_T819PC.J pC v181 O11 2009-08-11_T819PC.J pC v182 O11 2009-08-20_U531PC.J pC v231 O11 2009-08-20_U531PC.J pC v232 O11 2009-08-20_U531PC.J pC v235 O11 2009-08-25_TX04PC.J yM v225 ; J6a8 A20 !!_!! !! installation A21 2009-08-04_T804PC.J !! pit A35 2009-08-04_T804PC.J pC v237 B10 2009-08-04_T804PC.J pC pit B11 2009-08-04_T804PC.J pC an almost oval large hollow pit located in k104, k73, k82. The cut is f199 and cuts glacis f164 in k104 and probably removed also top stones of f227. The bottom of the pit was filled with bricky soil f200 and f231, instead the upper part of it was ashy soil f192 full of pottery and tannur pieces (f220). Most of the pottery found in the pit fill dates to Mittani. Another smaller pit f293 cuts f192 C1 2009-08-04_T804PC.J pC the pit is not completely removed: it continues to the east under the bin a7 G4 2009-08-04_T804PC.J pC The elements belonging to this aggregate are part of the pit, as cut or fill. while the pit is more a hollow and inside was found several features with different soil composition and characteristics, i decided that they should be collected in this aggregate. G11 2009-08-04_T804PC.J !! f200 G11 2009-08-04_T804PC.J !! f220 G11 2009-08-04_T804PC.J !! f293 G11 2009-08-04_T804PC.J !! f301 G11 2009-08-04_T804PC.J pC f192 G11 2009-08-04_T804PC.J pC f199 G11 2009-08-04_T804PC.J pC f226 G11 2009-08-04_T804PC.J pC f231 G11 2009-08-04_T804PC.J pC f261 G11 2009-08-04_T804PC.J pC f282 G11 2009-08-04_T804PC.J pC f283 G11 2009-08-04_T804PC.J pC f288 G12 2009-08-04_T804PC.J !! i22 G12 2009-08-04_T804PC.J !! i25 G13 2009-08-04_T804PC.J !! q304 G13 2009-08-04_T804PC.J !! q305 G13 2009-08-04_T804PC.J !! q306 G13 2009-08-04_T804PC.J !! q307 G13 2009-08-04_T804PC.J !! q308 G13 2009-08-04_T804PC.J !! q309 G13 2009-08-04_T804PC.J !! q310 G13 2009-08-04_T804PC.J !! q315 G13 2009-08-04_T804PC.J !! q316 G13 2009-08-04_T804PC.J !! q317 G13 2009-08-04_T804PC.J !! q318 G13 2009-08-04_T804PC.J !! q319 G13 2009-08-04_T804PC.J !! q324 G13 2009-08-04_T804PC.J !! q331 G13 2009-08-04_T804PC.J !! q333 G13 2009-08-04_T804PC.J !! q339 G13 2009-08-04_T804PC.J !! q340 G13 2009-08-04_T804PC.J !! q341 G13 2009-08-04_T804PC.J !! q342 G13 2009-08-04_T804PC.J !! q346 G13 2009-08-04_T804PC.J !! q349 G13 2009-08-04_T804PC.J !! q350 G13 2009-08-04_T804PC.J !! q353 G13 2009-08-04_T804PC.J !! q380 G13 2009-08-04_T804PC.J !! q387 G13 2009-08-04_T804PC.J !! q389 G13 2009-08-04_T804PC.J !! q390 G13 2009-08-04_T804PC.J !! q402 G13 2009-08-04_T804PC.J !! q405 G13 2009-08-04_T804PC.J !! q408 G13 2009-08-04_T804PC.J !! q411 G13 2009-08-04_T804PC.J !! q412 G13 2009-08-04_T804PC.J !! q417 G13 2009-08-04_T804PC.J !! q421 G13 2009-08-04_T804PC.J !! q422 G13 2009-08-04_T804PC.J !! q426 G13 2009-08-04_T804PC.J !! q428 G13 2009-08-04_T804PC.J !! q431 G13 2009-08-04_T804PC.J !! q432 G13 2009-08-04_T804PC.J !! q433 G13 2009-08-04_T804PC.J !! q434 G13 2009-08-04_T804PC.J !! q435 G13 2009-08-04_T804PC.J !! q438 G13 2009-08-04_T804PC.J !! q440 G13 2009-08-04_T804PC.J !! q442 G13 2009-08-04_T804PC.J !! q443 G13 2009-08-04_T804PC.J !! q445 G13 2009-08-04_T804PC.J !! q446 G13 2009-08-04_T804PC.J !! q448 G13 2009-08-04_T804PC.J !! q450 G13 2009-08-04_T804PC.J !! q451 G13 2009-08-04_T804PC.J !! q476 I1 2010-07-29_U815PC.J !! s400-J6A I1 2010-07-29_U815PC.J !! s410-J6A I1 2010-07-29_U815PC.J !! s600-J6A I1 2010-07-29_U815PC.J !! s640-J6A I3 2010-07-29_U815PC.J !! h3m-J6A I3 2010-07-29_U815PC.J !! h3s-J6A I3 2010-07-29_U815PC.J !! h5h-J6A N99 2009-08-04_T804PC.J pC the function of the pit is not clear: no particular items opottery was found inside the pit. The for of the pit is more a hollow than a pit. It is not deep but very extended. O11 2009-08-20_U531PC.J pC v237