Errors for Unit A16

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Introduction

See MZ.

A16 is the oldest book that has been made to comply to the current UGR standards; it was the primary book that was used to test the programs that produced the UGR. These various permutations of the programs required slightly different input formats, and these changes meant that some of the problems were amplified while others were resolved. Additionally, the several input formats meant that several of the files were copied, in whole or in part, thereby creating multiple entries with the same information.

A further factor which lead to the number of errors in the data is the large quantity of information collected over two seasons of excavation. The volume of material excavated over the two years was considerable: 8 initial loci meant that the footprint was 10m x 20m, covering thus 200m² and there was an additional small locus along the western side of the unit along the border with A10. The estimated total cubic volume is 350m³, and this is a conservative estimate. As for the chronological span, the latest material dates to the Khabur levels while the earliest dates to phase 2, the construction level of the palace. As such, A16 spans nearly the complete diachronic sequence present in the AA area of Mozan. All of these are indicators of the large quantity of data present in the current volume. This large quantity of data also contributed to the quantity of errors that arose in the processing of the data; thus while there might be more errors in number than in other books, they are still relatively few as a percentage of the total data.

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Form

Some of the errors present in the record are the result of changing practices in documentation over the years. The main problems focus on the digital photographs and the use of relays. The use of digital photography has developed considerably over the years, primarily in labeling of the files and their integration into the UGR, the use of views and the view log, and the creation of templates. Relays were used less frequently in defining excavated volumes, resulting primarily in the lack of precise volumetric data tied to the pottery collection lots.

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Record

The following are a list of errors still present in the record, as compiled by Yasmine Mahmoud in September 2011, and revised by Lorenzo Crescioli during July-August 2012. These will be corrected in future as much as possible, but for now current focus is on completing the interpretitive portions present in the left hand side.

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Aggregates

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Features

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Items

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Loci

All the loci do not have a relay measurements except for k109, k111 and k112.

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Q-items

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Q-lots

Most of the qlots are missing the horizontal definition.

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Relays

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Views

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Some formal discrepancies

Under the pottery description of the right hand side, some formal scattered discrepancies can be recorded. They concern two main aspects: the code of the vessel shape and the measurement of the rim diameter. These differences are due to the presence of two different professional figures: the draftsman and the analyser. The differences are usually minimal, 2-4 cms in the rim diameter, and small variant in the shape description.The difference in diameter is due to a minimal difference in the inclination of the sherd when measured. The differences in shape description are usually related to very small sherds, difficult to be reconstructed in the original shape. Sometimes the discrepancy is due to changes in the codes format, happened during the years. The discrepancies are generally minor and slight, and usually do not affect a right understanding of the single sherd, since the drawing is present.

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Judgment

While many staff members have worked on the data present in this publication, any errors are the responsibility of the authors.