.bk A9
.fl Lx03jw2.j
.fd feature descriptions for f268,f269
.ei jlw
.ed Lx03
.rd Lx03
.ri jlw

f 269
df fi
ds this feature, was first seen in the east baulk of k11, in a N-S section, after cleaning the excavation from MZ6. It was our impression that it was a half section of a pit.  From the bottom up, this feature appears as a series of layers, including red, brown and gray material which rise upward against the south face of the pise wall, f268. After about 10cm of these layers, there is at least 40cm of disorganized bricky material above.
ar most pits we encounter are round, with the bottom in the shape of a half sphere. To a degree, this is what we appear to be seeing. However the E-W section through what would be the center of a small pit shows the bottom layers to be flat. This means that either the pit was very oblong in the EW direction or that this feature is not a pit. The E-W section also shows N-S courses of brick, f229 laid on top of the layers, not the disorganized jumble of f269. jlw concludes that f269 is really accumulation or fill atop a floor system that extends south and west from pise wall, f268. The excavators (including jlw) did not recognize it and dug it out to its present state. The rise of the top layers of f269 along the south edge of f268 is typical of the intersection of walls and floors. The material in the top may well be brickfall or fill for the next phase of building, marked by N-S pise wall, f225, which cuts f268.

tc ab f268

f 268
df w
ds wall built of mud cement (pise) and appears to extend E-W from somewhere in k12, west through k11, where it appears in section in the east baulk, at the bottom of the excavation on the east side and in parts to the west and into A7, where it appears in section on the west face of the east baulk. It also appears to be cut by N-S wall, f225. Because it was cut by several pits between f225 and the west baulk, parts of f268 are difficult to trace due to the lack of a good section.

ar this wall was cut by wall, f225 and pits a24 and a29, all of which were associated with Khabur pottery, Phase 5 of the occupation of the tell. On the other hand, none was found in the material at the elevation of this feature. Therefore jlw concludes that f268 is associated with the last stages of Phase 4.

f 225
tc cu f228
tc cu f268
tc cu f240