.bk A9 .fl H728jo-3.j .fd h/j .ei jo .ed H728 .rd H721 .ri jo -sg will stop digging in k4 at the buttom of f73 elevation 8565, will dig only the trench along side the north baulk, starting with f74, 120cm wide N-S, 800cm long E-W,the western end will encloud part of A2. the trench is to detect the presence of Ak wall(s) in A9 area f 74 ds hard compacted light brown accumulation below f73 in k5, contains few sherds and no other contenents f 74 dy dug only in the lamination of k5d espite its appearent extention to the rest of k4 below f73, E and W k5 were assigned different q-lots k 4 dy the eastern extention of A6 northern baulk is being dug in the follwing up down order f2,f8,f27,f34 and f45 .rd H720 .ri jo -sg will remove the eastern extention of A6k217 northern baulk to inline it with k4 eastern baulk -sg A E-W tranch will be dug along the northern edge of k4, that is to inspect the existanc of N-S walls of AK such as f1 and/or A6f16, another tranch may also be dug N-S starting from doorway a1 to detict E-W walls. the non existenc of walls will confarm the posibelty of a large cortyard k 4 dy in prepration to lemet excavation to the tranch f73 is being leveld in the entier locus .rd H719 .ri jo k 4 dy secoundary baulk in the middle of k4 is removed to the level of the rest of the locus, f70 and 73 were removed k 4 sg will contenu removing f69 fill of a12, will contenu also diging the remaining portion of f70 at eastrn k4, will start diging f73 at western and the middle of k4 f 73 ds brown-redish accumulation, not hard compacted, covers the entier locus. It is the highest accumulation containd within the Ak walls f1, A6f16 and A6f78 .rd H715 .ri jo k 4 sg will leave a secoundary baulk unexcavated to the west of a12, 140cm wide 400cm long and will excavate to the east and to the west of it .rd H716 .ri jo f 72 ds redbricks laied flat, sits on f73, not in clear specific structure, some form a line 9relays 96-100), other bricks are scatered in the general area around the main group of the bricks f 71 ds a circled plastered floor withe several faces, the plaster seames clear from any traces of ash, acuumulation f70 tops the floor f71 and surounds it. the highest plaster elevation is 8406 and the lowest is 8391 .rd H719 .ri jo a 12 ds a 170cm diameter circled pit, 90cm deep, filled with soft loos ashy accumulation mixed wityh large number of sherds and tannur fragments (no tannur structure was found), the remaining of the pit extend in the northern baulk .rd H724 .ri jo k 5 sg contenu diging down in k5 to reach Ak floor, by now we are 50-40 cm higher than the closest AK floor in A6k22 (sector D) f 72 dy scatered isolated red bricks seams to appear in different elevations in the same general area f 79 ds hard pinkish-red accumulation below f78 in k5 f 80 ds leveled small stones form a stone paved floor, uncovered below f79 next to f81, it is lemeted to the eastern portion of the deep exposed part of the trunch k 5 dy features 80 and 81 might form a mixed bricks stone paved floor f 81 ds bricks to the west of f80, surounded by f82 f 82 ds hard red paking inbetween bricks f81 and to the south of the uncoverd portion of f80 k 5 dy diging throw the paking f82 to define the bricks f81 uncovered another layer of bricks below both f81 and f82,the lower bricks f84 seme to expand even below the stone paved floor f80 to the eastand towards the north below the northern baulk and to the south. it does not extend to the west. f 83 ds ashy accumulation at the SW corner of the deep exposed k5, it might suggest a burning activete have taken place and have some thing to do with the trace of burning on top some of the bricks of f84 f 84 ds 29cm x 29cm x 5cm backed bricks below features f81 and f82, slopes to the east below f80, traces of burning appear on top of some of the bricks k 5 dy f84 slops down east below f82 where f80 sits on, therfor f84 will not be exposed in the east at this point a 13 ds features 80-86, to levels of floors, the hiest is the stone paved floor f80, the secound is the brick paved floor f84, the two floors are seprated by a paking f82 .rd H725 .ri jo a 13 sg will expand the exposure of a13 to the south by diging extra 80cm to the south of the deep portion of k5 340cm long E-W, the choice of the southern exposure is because the northern portion is below the northern baulk, to the west f84 does not extend and to the east f84 goes below f80 which we have no intention to remove it at this time without exposing it combletly. the stratgraph of the southern expantion as allredy knwn thrw the excavation of k5 and seenon the section, that will unable us to dig the extra 80cm in a short time f 80 dy the stone paved floor does extend to the south forming a U shpe facing west f82 fills the space between the two angles. f80 elevation is 8298 f 84 dy bricks f84 expands more behined the excavated portion of k5 to the east ,north and to the south. the most western bricks seam to cover an opening because of the sound of an empty spase below them when they are hit with a hard object (pick) the sound is different in the other bricks .rd H726 .ri jo f 84 sg will remove one of the western bricks of f84 to detict the cause of the sound below f 84 dy the 2nd brick from north at the western en of f84 is removed and it turnd out not to be covering an opning rather it sits on f85 clay layer covers f86 red paking i 31 ds one brick of f84 was removed and then replaced in its original location in f84 f 85 ds brown clay used to conect the bricks of f84 together and to level the packing f86 below f 86 ds red paking mixed with chunks of gepsom, below f85. it was uncoverd only below the removed one brick of f84 f 49 tc co f63 f 64 tc ab f61 f 62 tc co f64 f 65 tc si f63 f 45 tc co f66 f 68 tc cu f67 f 45 tc co f67 f 68 tc cu f70 f 68 tc cu f73 f 68 tc cu f74 f 70 tc co f71 f 70 tc co f72 f 70 tc co f73 f 73 tc co f74 f 70 tc co f66 f 70 tc co f67 f 69 tc in f68 f 74 tc co f75 f 74 tc co f76 f 77 tc ab f68 f 69 tc co f77 f 76 tc co f78 f 78 tc co f79 f 80 tc co f82 f 81 tc ab f80 f 81 tc co f82 f 79 tc co f83 f 79 tc co f80 f 79 tc co f81 f 82 tc ab f80 f 82 tc co f84 f 85 tc in f84 f 84 tc co f85 f 85 tc co f86