; File processed on 2024-11-15 ; A20s2-JPC A21 2008-09-14_S914LR.j !! modern, topsoil B10 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR modern, topsoil B11 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR The most recent levels in A20, includes the berm constructed in 2005 to divert rain water and the topsoil level. I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f1 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f2 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f3 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f4 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f8 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f9 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f19 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f21 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f65 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f66 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f101 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f102 ; A20s11-JPC A21 2008-09-14_S914LR.j !! latest Mittani occupation B10 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR latest Mittani occupation B11 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR Traces of scattered occupation found immediately below the topsoil level. Evidence for this is in the form of small stone installations, a sherd lens or pavement, and several isolated stones with these features sitting on abandonment from the late Mittani occupation however this occupation does not utilize or reuse any structures from the other Mittani occupation levels suggesting a long abandonment period. Pottery analysis places this scattered occupation also within the Mittani period. Stratigraphically, these features correlate with area J5 which found a series of stone walls at the topmost level but dated to Middle Assyrian. I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f11 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f12 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f15 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f23 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f25 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f28 ; A20s12a-JPC A21 2008-09-14_S914LR.j !! late Mittani occupation B10 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR late Mittani occupation B11 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR Approximately 20 cm below the brickmelt s12b, installations such as a drainage channel, tannur, and pavements began to surface at a high elevation. These features are from late Mittani occupation that reused early Mittani structures from s15 and built over s14. This occupation level was likely an outdoor production area given the presence of the drainage installation, a3 and rough pavements f73, f72, and f35 which are more similar to wadi wash rather than formal pavements and the high volume of ash. These pavements also overlay a wall, f107, indicating that the structure was not in use during the time of the drainage system. This stratum also includes ash accumulations that resulted from these outdoor installations that area high in volume, sloping, and abut the bricky mass f98, f52, f82, and f64. This ash appears to have been produced over multiple periods of time as evident by laminations and clear layers within the ashy deposits. There is also evidence that during s12a people placed other installations over the ash, including f68 brick pile/platform and tannurs f100 and f42. This argues that the ash was produced during occupation and not exclusively after during abandonment. I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f22 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f24 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f31 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f32 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f33 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f34 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f35 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f36 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f42 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f43 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f45 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f48 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f49 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f50 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f52 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f54 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f61 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f68 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f71 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f72 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f73 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f74 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f76 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f79 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f80 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f81 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f82 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f83 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f88 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f96 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f98 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f100 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f103 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f104 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f113 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f114 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f117 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f123 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f124 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f128 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f130 ; A20s12b-JPC A21 2008-09-14_S914LR.j !! abandonment and collapse B10 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR abandonment and collapse B11 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR The result of the earliest Mittani brick structures, s15, melting in the rain and then hardened by the sun over time forming a thin hard clay crust, uniform and massive in structure, throughout the entire unit. Several dramatic slopes are visible in the north and south which seems to follow contours of the structures below. In order for the bricks to have melted in this manner, we are assuming that the structures were exposed to the processes of weathering over a long period of time allowing for compaction to occur and must have also been the natural surface of the Tell in antiquity. Comparing this brickmelt to the brickmelt in A18 and A16 where no compaction occurs, instead the brickmelt resembles more like soft disintegrated bricks with no crust formed at the top, gives more plausibility that this brickmelt in A20 was exposed for more time. This also explains why the next occupation level, s11 does not reuse the structures from s15 or s14, these were simply not in view suggesting that during the end of the Mittani period, occupation shifted elsewhere at the site, leaving area A20 unoccupied for some time then reoccupied at a later date. This stratum also includes accumulations from collapse of the early to late Mittani levels (s14, s15, s12a). I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f5 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f6 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f7 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f10 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f13 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f14 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f16 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f17 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f18 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f20 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f26 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f27 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f29 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f30 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f37 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f51 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f53 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f58 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f60 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f62 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f67 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f69 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f70 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f75 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f78 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f94 ; A20s14-JPC A21 2008-09-14_S914LR.j !! middle occupation B10 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR middle occupation B11 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR Mittani occupation that directly reused the early structures from ^oc1 visible in the form of adding a2 over f132 pavement, f92 vertical wall on f93 pavement, bins f113 and f79, sherd pavements f112 and f122, raising the floors inside the structures a1, and a5 along with the additions of small brick installations f137 and f138 inside a5. Several north-south walls were also added, f77 and f95. I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f38 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f39 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f40 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f44 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f46 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f47 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f55 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f56 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f59 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f77 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f87 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f89 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f90 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f91 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f92 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f95 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f110 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f112 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f119 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f121 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f122 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f131 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f132 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f137 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f138 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f140 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f142 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f143 ; A20s15-JPC A21 2008-09-14_S914LR.j !! early occupation B10 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR early occupation B11 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR The earliest Mittani occupation consisting of thick walled mudbrick structures with cobblestone floors that were terraced with the floor from the northern area at elevation 9263, followed by a larger stone courtyard f108 at elevation 9143 then the inside of room a5, with the floor at elevation 9072. At first we initially thought these were all different time periods of use but the courtyard f108 respects wall f84, which is the cross wall for a1 (the northernmost room at the highest elevation) and wall f126 for room a4, and wall f109 for a5. The similarity of the rooms also adds in favor to a contemporary construction of all these rooms with vertical bricks in use, thick walls, stone floors, and the small sizes of the rooms. The pavements inside the rooms were found clean with no pot smashes and no objects directly on the floors (with the exception of an animal jaw sitting on f132 pavement). I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f41 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f57 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f63 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f64 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f84 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f86 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f93 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f97 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f99 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f105 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f106 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f107 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f108 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f118 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f120 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f125 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f126 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f127 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f129 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f132 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f139 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f141 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f144 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f145 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f146 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f147 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f149 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f150 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f152 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f153 ; A20s19-JPC A21 2008-09-14_S914LR.j !! earliest Mit occupation B10 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR earliest Mit occupation B11 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR Presumably the earliest levels at the site based solely on elevation with the floor level inside a5 at 9068 while the floor level of f57 is 9264. The stratigraphy suggests that a5 and f57 are contemporary or within the same strata given that wall f84 runs alongside f116 with pavements f108 and f57 similar in construction. It is plausible that all the structures in A19 and A20 are contemporary and were terraced or that f57, a4, and a6 are later constructions belonging to the middle Mittani period. The only way to clarify this is to excavate further in the area, particularly to remove one of the highest elevation pavements to see if another pavement is below. I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f85 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f109 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f111 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f115 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f116 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f133 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f134 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f135 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f136 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f148 I2 2008-09-14_S914LR.j lR f151