.bk A09 .fl J630jlw1.j .fd daily journal .ei jlw .ed J630 .rd J630 .ri jlw -wk 6 large picks and 34 in support, including dirt train. k 3 dy made several pick runs with large pick. On last one, began to see ashy patches and some pieces of burned roof material. This may be additional evidence of catastrophic destruction of this portion of the building (supplementing the burned brick that can be seen in f89 in the east baulk of k4 at approximately the same elevation. Exposed one stone, flat on one side, lying at an angle of 80 degrees to the horizontal. Function and context unknown, but it is the first of its type to be found in this locus since the excavation was resumed this season. Found a broken figurine, one of the few artifacts that have been found in this locus aside from grave goods. Made one final run with small picks. A few additional pieces of burned clay, a few brick pieces and a few pieces of charcoal. One conical cup bottom. f 126 df ac ds brownish soil, somewhat damp and greasy. Contains a few sherds and bones along with some patches of black ash and burned brick, possibly from a roof, since there are reed impressions along one side. c# 10YR4/3 co dark brown .ri gb a 17 M2 the excavation shows a very interesting pattern that clarifies the use of the building. On the Northern (F1) side there is no stratigraphic distinction at all between floor accumulations, and no trace of floor surfaces. This is in marked contrast with the door sills clearly visible on the Southern (B1) side. There are two important consequences to be drawn from this. (1) The doorway was used as a doorway with a door panel and a door sill all the way through the mid to late strata of AK occupation. This demonstrates that the building was indeed used as a building, i.e., it was not abandoned. (2) on the other hand, the very gradual accumulation on the Northern side shows that there was no carry over of floor surfaces visible in the deposition. In other words, the very uniform accumulation we have witnessed espedcially in areas A6 and A10 does correspond to a gradual build-up within the building, even though there id no visible trace of successions of floors. Such an accumulation is rather deep(up to 2.5 ms in A6) which implies a long time lapse. It should be noted that the distinction between mid and high floors has always been based on absolute elevation only. -sr See note on M2 for a17. The general implication is that we may distinguish a palace occupation of AK (first floors) from a non-palace AK occupation (mid to high floors), when the building existed as a roofed building, but may possibly no longer have functioned as a palace. This might perhaps be explained if the main part of the building (to the N and E) had burnt down, and only the storehouse was spared and continued in use, but not as a portion of the palace. a 17 pr we will leave a section NS to show how door sills consist of a single brick against the southern door jambs (where door panel was). M2 There is a sequence of interesting pairing surfaces just N of doorway a17 which may be related in time as serving all similar functions in relation to the doorway. .ri jlw a 17 dy began to excavate highest level of accumulation in doorway that was indistinguishable from surface soil. Then we excavated the highest threshold, which had an elevation of ???, stopping at the second highest, which had an elevation of ???. The contrast between the south face where the thresholds were clearly visible and the north face where it was all but impossible to distinguish any layers (except for narrow bands of ash) alerted us to the opportunity to learn more about the history of the building's occupation. (See gb discussions M2 and -sr of this date on a17.) Cleaned and straightened sections in preparation for a group discussion of this topic on J701. k 8 dy continued to excavate as rapidly as possible. Some time lost because of problems with the dirt train. Moderate amounts of pottery, some bone and a few artifacts (bead and stone tool). No architecture. .rd J628 f 119 df ta ds bottom section of moderate-sized tannur. Inside diameter of 50cm with 13 cm thick walls. a 19 df ta ds aggregate of tannur, f119, and the modest amount of pottery within, q293.