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.rd H617
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-pr Areas A6 and A9, immediately to the north share a common boundary.  Previous excavations in A6, which was aligned to the AS trench used for early excavations, had found a major E-W wall along the northern boundary, a doorway in that wall, and a small portion of a N-S wall originating just to the east of the doorway and extending to the north.  This year, when the grid was reoriented to the alignment of building AK, these features were incorporated into the southern boundary of A9 and became the points of departure for exploration of the more northerly parts of AK.  Three squares were laid out, two along the southern border and one immediately to the north.   The southern boundary of A9K1, to the far southeast, was shortened to four meters to assure it fell completely within the portion we wished to excavate, while A9K2 to the east was full-sized.  The full southern boundary of A9 was delineated by a pin placed on the first available unexcavated surface to the west.  Square A9K3, to the north, was offset two meters to the west of the eastern edge of A9 to explore for the prevoiusly mention N-S wall, while at the same time also avoiding the worst effects of a deep wadi which extends NE from the doorway in the middle of the southern border.  Adequate space was left to the west for Area 2 to excavate two full-sized squares.