.bk A09
.fl Mx07jw.j
.fd daily journal for Mx07
.ei jw
.ed Mx07
.rd Mx07
.ri jw

-dy in a continuing review of the documentation available at Tell Mozan that may assist in the compilation of the A9 global record, jlw found discrepancies in the way sketches were numbered through the years.  Forty-eight sketches from MZ10, MZ12, and MZ14 were assembled, uniformly numbered, and scanned into the record (W15a).

.rd L716

i 139
df ja
in 30, shoulder of jar, N
or W, rim

.rd Mx06

-sp in study season MZ13(2000-K), jlw undertook several small projects involving the southern border of A9, which is formed by a major E-W wall that forms the north face of the AK building.  The first task was to remove a pillar of accumulation from the NW corner of N-S stub wall, f176, which marks the western boundary of A9.  The accumulation was of uniform texture and color, 10YR6/2, light brownish gray.  There were no artifacts.  The second task was to remove a one cubic meter platform of accumulation at the far western end of the same E-W wall, that was technically a part of A7 because it was about 7 meters west of the west face of f176.  Sketch A9sk20 describes the situation.  There were a few artifacts, consisting of non-diagnostic body sherds of common wares, none of which were kept.  The third task involved preparing a sketch of the south, unexcavated, face of doorway, A9a17, which was never excavated.  It is important because the doorway remained in use after the main palace was closed.  The material in the doorway is about 2m high and consists of a series of alternating thresholds and accumulations, indicating that building AK was accessed by that doorway for an extended period of time after the reign of Tupkish.  A layer of brown bricks atop the palace redbrick walls on either side of the doorway is further evidence of the continued occupation of AK.  Sketch A9sk19 is the result.

.rd Mx07

-sg in order to evaluate the pise wall and foundation construction used in several loci of A9, jw will take hardness measurements of various walls and accumulations with a soil penetrometer, which measures the resistance to crushing of an unconfined sample of soil.  In addition, we suspect that ash from the kiln was added to the soil mixture to additionally strengthen it.  yt, the ceramic manufacturing specialist stated that when alkali from kiln ash deposits (we have found kilns nearby in A7 and A15) is mixed with loess, the result is a very hard dense volume of material that explodes to powder when crushed, the act of which takes a hard push to accomplish.  On a microscopic level, individual ash particles and the fine grains of loess are indistinguishable.