Unit Book J4

The Eastern Top of the Main Staircase (Version 1a)
Preface to Unit J4Introduction

Preface

Yasmine Mahmoud – November 2024

For full bibliographical information see Front Matter.

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J4 in isolation

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J4 covers what can be considered a small area, enclosing the western bounderyboundary of wall J2f219. J4 does not have many structures and shows minimal use of the area.
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Chronologically, it contains two stratighraphical phases, an Imperial AkkaddianAkkadian phase covered directly by Mittani depositions, to which belongs the structures and use phases of the area.

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J4 within theits broader setting

The better understanding of the J4 findings came from viewing J4 in a larger frame, first within the light of the excavations in J6, and then as a part of the entire temple area in general.

The findings from J4 corraborate the understaning of the area east of the monumental staircase J2f130, as a service quarter where it was kept clean and empty throughout the use phases of the monumental access ,before the shift of the access to a smaller one found in excavation unit J5.

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