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v 38
ph v38 shows f178, the possible door sill, and f176, the baked brick threshold, in doorway a18.  However, it was taken before the cleaning and discovery of f190, the brick floor.  It also shows the edges of walls f97 and f124, putting the doorway in perspective.

v 39
ph v39 shows the animal horn or rib, i94, and how it was discovered in situ and well stratified.  v39a is a closeup of the horn itself.

v 41
ph The courtyard of tbe AK building is quite large, extending more than 20 meters from W to E and at least 15 meters from S to N.  After two years of excavations we have cleared the accumulation from the southern boundary wall to a pebble floor that have been in use when the building was being used as a palace.  This photo gives an overall view of the southern boundary to the current eastern limits of excavation, A11k22.

v 42
ph After the AK building ceased its use as a palace, the west part of the courtyard was modified.  We believe stones were robbed from a western companion to wall f155 and used for other purposes around doorway a17.  The first such reuse after the phase that had the pebble floor f80 included a stone and sherd floor, f187 (whose fill included a goat horn, i94).  This photo shows f187 in relation to walls f172 and f125.  v42a is a tight view of the floor.

v 43
ph A post-palace rebuild had a brick floor, f191, that began at the eastern side of doorway a17 with a brick cover of wall f117 and extended west at least to wall f172.  The floor is shown in relation to doorway a17 and walls f172 and f125.  v43a focuses on only the floor.

v 44
ph After the the pebble floor, f80, ceased to be used, large stones were apparently robbed from a nearby platform wall (western companion to wall, f155) to build a retaining wall that worked in conjunction with doorway a17.  At that time a sherd and dirt floor, f192 was laid overtop, at least in the vicinity of doorway a17.  This photo shows these features in relation to the major architecture, doorway a17, and walls f172 and f125.  v44a shows a very large stone, f189, that seems to have been placed in line with the doorway and set back about 5 meters to the north.

v 45
ph While cleaning for final photos, a gray brick floor surface, f191, was found in the NE corner of k6.  Two rows of bricks, running E-W are visible, while the balance extend into the north baulk.  It appears to be associated with pebble floor, f80 that seems to only extend one meter in from the perimeter of the courtyard, the balance being some other smooth material.

v 46
ph doorway a18, which connects the kitchen to the south with the courtyard, has two brick surfaces.  The first is a brick floor surface, f190 and the second is a baked brick threshold along the northern edge, f176.  The photo shows the doorway and these two features, while the closeup, v46a shows the details of the two brick features.

v 47
ph brick fall from a very large wall to the northeast of k9 can be seen in k9, k3, k4 and A11k22, to the east of k4.  This photo documents the continuous band of this reddish brown material.

v 48
ph a bi-colored baked brick platform, f163, that abuts wall, f1, provides major evidence that the courtyard in which it sits had an important role in the use of the AK building as a palace.  This photo documents the location and design of the platform, showing its location with respect to wall, f1 and doorway, a18.  v48a to v48c document the details of its construction. and its relationship with the pebble floor, f80, which abuts it at its SE corner.

v 49
ph wall, f155, is a stone foundation for what we believe was a very large curtain wall that probably provided a visual barrier to the rooms beyond the courtyard to the east.  v49a shows some of the large stones at the corner of the wall.

v 50
ph excavation of k9 included a deep probe of the east half of the locus from the surface to the excavated surface of locus k4 to find the east face of walls we expected would mirror walls f1 and f97.  This photo shows the enormity of the accomplishment.  v50a shows a small platform in the NE corner of k9 that was left unexcavated at the close of the season due to lack of time.

v 51
ph we have for some time presumed that the bi-colored baked brick platform was built in conjunction with the baked brick floor, f84.  However a test section at the northwest corner shows that the platform is associated with the pebble floor, f80.  We did confirm that floor, f84, does extend east aat least as far as the stub wall, f93.  The photograph, from a high angle, shows the relationship between the platform, the bricks in the bottom of the test section and the bricks exposed in k5 at the close of the 1997 excavation season.  v51a shows that the platform rests on fill associated with the pebble floor.  v51b is a tight view of the bricks in the trench.  v51c shows the platform and its relationship with the pebble floor.

v 52
ph we had presumed that there would be a wall in the far SE corner of k6 that more or less mirrored wall, 155, in the eastern part of k3/k4.  There was no evidence of the wall in a test sounding that we made along the west corner of the north baulk directly north of wall, 72, where symmetry with respect to walls f155 and f93 to the east would suggest.  We believe that if there was a wall at one time, the foundation stones were robbed to build other things in the couryard.  The photo and v52a show the test trench bottom looking from opposite directions.

v 53
ph one continuous wall complex forms the south boundary of A9.  This photograph documents the relationship of walls, f125, f124, f97, wall stubs, f93, f172 and doorways a17, a18.  Individual segments are shown in auxiliary views beginning at the west end.

v 54
ph k9 was excavated in two halves.  Work in the west half stopped when we encountered a large stone wall complex.  Work in the east half continued until we reached the level of k3.  This photo documents the final state at the end of this excavation season.  v54a shows the contrast in depth of the two halves.

v 55
ph we started to excavate k8 from the surface, but work was halted at a depth of about 2 meters due to higher priority work.  This photo shows the final state at the end of the excavation.