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v 59
ph most tannurs that we find are free standing with their bottoms resting on a floor surface. This one, f215, was apparently sunk into a pit, f248 that was dug for the purpose of lowering the mouth to floor level. The main view shows the body of the tannur that had its southern half excavated in MZ6. v59a, along the top of the tannur shows the outline of the pit.

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v 60
ph the step trench excagations in season MZ6 investigated the time periods that the tell was occupied. As we cleaned and re-aligned the trench in this area (now k10 and k11) it became obvious that there were at least four distinct occupation levels represented. The main view looks north, up the slope in which the various levels have been exposed. v60a focuses on the earliest level, probably early second millennium. It shows a living surface, (wall, floor and tannur). The next phase built over this level, which is best illustrated by the retaining wall, f243, that incorporated the tannur in its foundation. v60b shows the next levels of occupation. Wall, f228, and its associated floors was probably built late in Phase 4 on the level area behind f243. Also in the foreground and on the right side are two pise wall features associated with the early part of Phase 5, Khabur. v60c shows how the early Phase 5 pise foundation/wall cut the earlier wall from late Phase 4. v60d is a foot-level picture of a pit, a29 into which the northern part of wall f225 was dug. v60e shows the same scene from eye level.

v 61
ph the pit, a29, provides an interesting study in stratigraphy. Of course, it was dug into accumulation and architecture from earlier periods. In this case, a Phase 5 pit was dug into Phase 4 material that is represented by the mud cement foundation/wall, f268, which extends west to mud cement foundation wall, f225, which may cut it. f225 definitely cuts the pit, a29. At the bottom of the pit there is a double line of bricks, which may represent the earliest architecture in this part of the excagation and which may have been cut by the pise wall, f268. There is another small pit in the SE corner that may have been cut by f268. This view shows these elements looking to the NW, while v61a shows them looking SE.

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v 62
ph among other things the step trench excagations in MZ6 uncovered a number of burials and graves, particular at higher elegations. One was an elaborate tomb in what is now k31 in MZ14. As we were removing backfill and topsoil we encountered two lines of baked bricks, f281 and f287. When we began to clear the dirt and plastic sheeting from the area between to the southeast, we realized that this was a previously excavated elaborate grave. We immediately stopped excagating. This photograph documents the condition of the grave before we re-covered it for remogal in a following season.
 
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59		NE	gk10 ga26 gf248,215	tannur with mouth at floor level
59a	t	E	gf215,248	view of top of tannur
60		N	gk10,11	view of architecture in step trench/k10, k11
60a	m	N	gf226,231,211,230,243	living area bounded by wall, with floor and tannur
60b	t	E	gk11 gf228,225,252	Late Phase 4 and early Phase 5 architecture
60c	m	SW	gf225,228	Phase 5 wall cutting Phase 4 wall
60d	t	ON	gf225 ga29	Phase 5 wall cutting Phase 5 pit
60e	t	N	gf225 ga29	same as v60d except from eye level
61		NE	gk11 ga29 gf225,267,268,269	illustration of pit stratigraphy and the interaction of Phase 4 and Phase 5 features
61a	m	SE	gf267,268,269	side view of v61
62		N	ga32, gf281,287	previously excagated grave

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f 252
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ds a series of mud cement blocks, most likely forming an E-W wall foundation that is associated with a similar, but slightly larger N-S wall, f225. At one time we thought that this feature was an isolated block of material, but after thorough drying it is clear that it is a succession of regular additions, probably made one after another in a trench dug into accumulation that covered the previous phase. Evidence for this conclusion is that f225 cuts both wall, f228, and floors, f247 and f251, and f252 cuts floor 251.

f 252
ar jw carefully inspected the mud cement (pise) architectural wall/foundation features that run N-S, f225, and E-W, f252, respectively. There is an exposed outside corner (SE) in the SE quadrant of k11 that clearly shows that they form a single, continuous wall that turns to the west and continues for about 5 meters through the west baulk of k11 to A7 where it may turn to the north. (It is not possible to say this with certainty because f252 was cut by a large rectangular N-S pit just inside A7.) One may further speculate that the line of bricks placed atop an accumulation and fill that may be seen in section in the west baulk of k11 in the NW quadrant are associated with these walls. The brick paving and the fill would have covered the space partially defined by E-W wall, f228.

f 228
ar this E-W wall appears to end in the SW quadrant of k11 and has a curious mudbrick structure, f258 attached at the western end. Inspection of the section formed by the east face of the eastern boundary of A7 reveals that there is brick work that would correspond to a continuation of that wall line further to the west. Therefore it is possible that the western end of wall, f229 and the brick structure, f258 form the eastern part of a doorway.