| Date | Author | Record | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997-06-15 | jo | The location and elevation of A9 , in relation and comparison to A8 and the eastern portion of A7 , leads us to expect to come cross a 2nd mill. construction and/or post AK scatered occupations in the higher levels of A9 on top of AK building . [Input: H617JO.j] | |
| 1997-06-17 | jo | We began digging k2 top soil , starting just W of the eastern bulk , we will collect sherds in a zambil to be checked by MKB . [Input: H620JO-2.j] | |
| 1997-06-18 | jm | We started cuting the section N A6k217 and we had to stop because of the dust we created for A6 group . Will finish this work when they move their operation to farther away portion of their area . [Input: H620JO-2.j] | |
| 1997-06-18 | jm | Measured coordinates and elevations of our squares . [Input: H620JO-2.j] | |
| 1997-06-18 | jlw | MKB examined pottery from f3 , f4 and f5 . No saves as pottery was clearly associated with late occupations that had washed into gully from higherr elevation ( features 3 ,4 and 5 are topsoil and wadi accumulation ) . [Input: H620JO-3.j] | |
| 1997-06-19 | jo | We dug aproximatly 100cm at the north of k3 and 115cm at the east of k2 . We did not come across 2nd millennium constructions or scatered occupations. Exept for f6 and f7 in k2 there were not any destruption of the accumulations ( f3 ,,f5 ,f8 and f9 ). As we expected the wadi woud have washed out 2nd millennium occupation evidance if there were any . [Input: H620JO-3.j] | |
| 1997-06-16 | jo | Workmen started to remove the sandbag wall that was placed in the southern portion of A9 at the end of last excavation season to protect A6 excavation from any damage that would be caused by water brought down the wadi during the rain season . Workmen were instructed by A6 staff. [Input: H620JO.j] | |
| 1997-06-16 | jo | The surveyor will start today to lay out the squares in A9 (k1, k2 and k3). [Input: H620JO.j] | |
| 1997-06-17 | jo | While the surveyor is measuring and laying out the squares, we had the workmen cleaning up and removing the sandbags northern k3. [Input: H620JO.j] | |
| 1997-06-17 | jo | When the orientation of squares had ben changed from AS to Ak orientation , A9's SW corner (SW k1) had to be shifted a little to inside A6 area. [Input: H620JO.j] | |
| 1999-06-13 | jlw | backdirt and plastic sheeting removed by jo in conjunction with other work in A10. Highest level, f74, very well protected. Clean and not eroded. Some algae and silting in pebble floor, f80, as well as f82, 84 and the baulks. [Input: J615JLW.j] | |
| 1999-06-15 | jlw | dirt removal train installed and successfully tested. In full operation. Requires about 8 people, including the engineer. [Input: J615JLW.j] | |
| 1999-06-18 | jlw | photographed k4 and k5 during morning of J618,workmen's day off. [Input: J620JLW.j] | |
| 1999-06-21 | jlw | have half crews deployed in both k3 and k4. We are excavating the western quadrant of this large locus to level all parts to the same elevation in preparation for a major push to get to the earliest AK level. We are excavating k3, which is presently one meter higher, as quickly as possible to also get to the same level, slowing to explore the few features we are finding in what appears to have been a dumping area for houses to the west and perhaps the east. [Input: J622JLW2.j] | |
| 1999-07-03 | jlw | added 6 new workmen to carry dirt from k7 and k8 upward to re-enforce the berms. Increase in capacity allowed both upper and lower levels to work to maximum efficiency. Lost one hour of dirt removal time on the lower level because the engineer station had to be moved back off a baulk that showed signs of cracking. [Input: J703JLW.j] | |
| 1999-07-13 | jlw | 7 large picks and 33 in support. [Input: J713JLW.j] | |
| 1999-07-14 | jlw | loaned 8 removal persons to A12 for one hour to prepare for surveyor work. [Input: J714JLW.j] | |
| 1999-09-30 | jlw | spent J929 and J930 preparing Schematic Sections for A9 in Freehand drawings, a project that was not completed at the end of the excavation season. Also changed some of the file names for the annotated section drawings to better reflect the contents of the file. (This part of the work was done on the last evening due to some problems with the scanner that converted the inked section drawings into computer format.) Completed the Summary Report, which is filed as a Word document in mz\a\a9\i\j with the file label J809jlw.doc and J809jlw1.txt. [Input: J930JLW.j] | |
| 2000-07-25 | jlw | dirt and plastic removed by breakfast. Spent the balance of day cleaning. [Input: K725JLW.j] | |
| 2001-06-19 | jlw | at least one sketch from MZ12 was not formally numbered and there were several plots that were the basis for pencil drawings of the actual architectural features that were retained in the plot files. Sequential sketch numbers must be assigned before the numbers to begin season MZ14 can be determined. The last numbered sketch from MZ 12 was s14. We added one more sketch, 15, that illustrates some aspects of f194. [Input: L619JLW.j] | |
| 2000-07-24 | jlw | work proceeded routinely without incident. All covering and backfill removed. Removed a one cubic meter residual platform from the north edge of the western extension of the major east-west wall, f125, between sectors B and F. It was located 7 meters west of the west face of stub wall, f172. See drawing w29. Removed small pillar of residual accumulation from the north side of wall system f125/f172, to expose brickwork. [Input: L620JLW.j] | |
| 2001-06-23 | jlw | removed all weeds from the area to be excavated this season. [Input: L704JLW.j] | |
| 2001-06-28 | jlw | spent a busy day uncovering features in k10, k11, and k21 that had been previously discovered in the MZ6 excavations. [Input: L712JLW.j] | |
| 2001-07-12 | vp | Suliman with the bigger part of workers cleaned A7; they started to remove the ground on the plastic sheets. At the same time, Yasser with the Tariq's help cleaned k9. [Input: L712VP.j] | |
| 2001-07-19 | jlw | took the opportunity to thoroughly clean the accumulated loose soil from the baulks and surrounding areas. The steep slope makes travel around the unit somewhat hazardous. [Input: L720JLW.j] | |
| 2001-07-22 | jlw | gb and jlw inspected the unit to review goals and set priorities for the last days of the excavation in MZ14. We have definitely established that the phase 4 and 5 settlements to the west found in A2 and A7 estend eastward about 5 meters. As one proceeds further to the east he encounters some ill-defined structures that appear to be made of mud plaster. Some have hints of red bricks on top, while others do not. Seen in section, some appear to have the rectangular form of the foundation, f225, while others are very amorphous. This continues for about 15 meters, the approximate width of the modern gully. Then for the next 10 meters, substantial mudbrick walls again appear, which are obviously the northern extension of the settlements of A11 to the southeast. The large wall complex that begins in k21 and extends to the north, through k31, k41, k42, k51 and k52 is interesting and is most likely Phase 5 Khabur. The seal, i138, and the statuette, i149, are tantilizing hints of important settlements after Khabur. [Input: L722JLW1.j] | |
| 2001-07-23 | jlw | began to remove the accumulation, f319, below what we at one time thought was a floor surface, f306, but now appears to be the bottom of a pond that formed in the gully. Although there are a few deeper spots, due to the excavation of pits, there remains about 20 cm to be excavated to attain a uniform surface. We will be careful to watch for bricks along the north and east baulks. The bottom of the brick structure, f315, has been exposed and the mass is almost surely congealed reddish fill that is found in most of the pits in this area. It is possible that we did not see the fill because the pit may have been used for clean material or it may never have been used after being dug. [Input: L723JLW.j] | |
| 2001-07-23 | jlw | even though we do not have baulks in the northern tier of loci, we are respecting their boundaries by digging each locus fully before proceeding to the next one. [Input: L723JLW.j] | |
| 2001-07-12 | jlw | deployed half, under the supervision of Anwar and Mizar, to A7 to begin removing the covering from the Phase 4 buildings in preparation for kite photographs of A7, A9 and A11 which we expect will illustrate the links between the settlement sectors that we have found to date. [Input: L923JW.j] | |
| 2002-09-12 | jw | jlw ran a brief test on the new program J46.a, gb rewrote to address several issues in the use of an earlier version, J44.i. jlw seemed to experience problems in processing feature logs with the earlier version of the program. The problem was that it appeared to prepare incomplete entries for each feature, stopping at the first elevation in each case, while also attempting to process any entry beginning with the letter "m" as a marker file. Yesterday, jlw rushed a test on the new program which appeared to exhibit the same problems. However, when he ran it this morning under more controlled conditions, it proceseed a very large feature log file perfectly. So, the initial conclusion is that the program is working as it should. jlw will attempt to run another set of files using J44.i to see if the problem was "operator error" all along. [Input: M912JW.j] | |
| 2002-09-13 | jlw | jlw took Munsell color readings for new features in the north baulk of k41 that were identified on the basis of analysis of photographs used in preparing templates. Weathering has blurred some of the distinctions, but all were identified with selective picking. [Input: M914JW.j] | |
| 2002-09-14 | jlw | jlw took Munsell color readings for new features in k11, k21 and k24 that were identified by analyzing photographs used in preparing templates. Weathering in k11 has revealed an even more complex pattern of brick work in the east and west baulks than previously observed. We will reexamine the templates to see if the new features are visible. In k24, jlw observed that a large animal had dug a burrow in the NE corner of the locus. We had hypthesized that this region was a small section of the SW corner of a room formed by pise walls f325 and f348. The fact that the burrow was dug in a place expected to contain softer accumulation/fill than the pise, adds credence to the hypthesis. [Input: M914JW.j] | |
| 2002-09-14 | jlw | Overall, jlw identified four new features: f373, a thin layer of granular brownish clay-like material above the pise floor (f354) in k21; f374, several courses of bricks seen in section above bricks (f359) in the north part of the east baulk of k11; f375, several courses of bricks seen in section in the north part of the west baulk of k11 (probably associated with f374); and f376, a layer of soil above the topsoil in the north baulks of k23 and k24 resulting from the weathering of the berms. [Input: M914JW.j] | |
| 2002-10-07 | jw | in a continuing review of the documentation available at Tell Mozan that may assist in the compilation of the A9 global record, jlw found discrepancies in the way sketches were numbered through the years. Forty-eight sketches from MZ10, MZ12, and MZ14 were assembled, uniformly numbered, and scanned into the record (W15a). [Input: MX07JW.j] | |
| 2002-10-08 | jw | measured the resistance to crushing of unconfined samples of pise walls, bricks, fill and pit refuse with a pocket penetrometer. The pise walls had resistance readings far in excess of 4.5 kilograms per square centimeter, the maximum reading on this particular instrument(Soil Test, Inc. model CL-700). Bricks also had resistance readings in excess of the maximum, but broke at considerably less pressure. Regular fill had resistance readings of from 1.5 to 4.0. Fill of an ashy pit had a resistance reading of 0.75. [Input: MX08JW.j] | |
| 2004-08-18 | jw | Visiting paleozoologist H-P Uerpmann, in the process of analyzing the animal bones from present and past excavations, attempted to find the time of the first appearance of the horse at Tell Mozan. To assist in this effort, we provided bone lots from selected features assigned to Phase 4 in MZ12 and MZ14. (He already has identified horse bones from Phase 5.) As a part of this effort, mkb examined the pottery from f144, f162, f218, f241, and f249. The results are positive assignments to Ph 4a for all but f162, which had few sherds and none of those were diagnostic. [Input: O818JW1.j] |
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