Unit Book J5

The Mittani Staircase (Version 1a)

J5 synthetic View / Stratigraphy

Phase 8rJ5B within Unit J5

James L. Walker – May 2011

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Stratigraphy

Phase 8r is a collection of small installations relatively close to the modern surface of the tell whose most liberal inpretation can be associated with short-term occupation of the site. It includes a wall-like line of stones (f144 and f148, and a simple entrance (f145) to a plaster floor (f143). Stratigraphically, their elevation relative to features in Phase 8m places these features in the Middle Assyrian horizon, but they may be later.

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Typology

Ceramics were mixed. The only burial thus far found in this unit , was that of an infant, f27. Grave goods consisted of sherds from two vessels.