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Unit Book A20

The eastern sector of the Palace (Version 1a)

A20f55

Processed on 2025-04-14

1. OVERVIEW

Roster Date Author Record
Category !! !! buildup
Best definition 2008-07-28 yM accumulation A [Input: S802LR.j]
Best image 2008-07-28 !!
v36 [Input: S802LC.j]

2. IDENTIFICATION

Designation

Roster Date Author Record
Description (summary) 2008-07-28 lR Fill inside a1, the last 15 cm above a floor surface. The matrix is mixed between soft gray fill, broken bricks with large pottery inclusions and stone tools. A complete human upper incisor was found suggesting this structure may be a tomb. It appears that we are almost at the floor surface and would expect to have found human bones by now if this were the case. [Input: S728LR.j]

3. STRATIGRAPHY

Recovery/Assignment

Roster Date Author Record
Daily notes about recovery of elements 2008-08-05 lC Today we finished to excavate the accumulation f55 inside the room of a1 that was still in place because in the southern baulk of k15. We excavated it to clarify the presence or not of a wall closing in the south the room and to check where the floor f57 finishes. We left in place a nice grinding stone i23 to take a photo, but in a small sounding near the east section of k15 we found the end of the stone pavement and the presence of a mud brick wall f84, very badly preserved, that we will understand better in the next days. [Input: S805LC.j]
2008-08-06 lR Removed the last portion of f55 today while excavatign the southern baulk of k15. A complete grinding stone i23 was found above the stone pavement f57. [Input: S806LR.j]

Volumetric Localization

Roster Date Author Record
Locus 2008-07-28 yM k15 [Input: S802LR.j]
M#/elev @top 2008-07-28 yM 9253 [Input: S802LR.j]
M#/elev @bottom 2008-08-12 lR 9243 [Input: S812LR7.j]

Contact Association

Roster Date Author Record
Type of contact: latest events 2008-08-13 lR f84 (wall) abuts f55 (accumulation A) [Input: S813LR.j]
2008-08-13 lR f39 (accumulation B) covers f55 (accumulation A) [Input: S813LR.j]
Type of contact: contemporary events/movable items 2008-07-28 lR i16 (human body) sits in f55 (accumulation A) [Input: S802LC2.j]
2008-08-06 eE i23 (grinding stone) sits in f55 (accumulation A) [Input: S813YM.j]
2008-07-28 !! q98.1 (tool) sits in f55 (accumulation A) [Input: S729YM.j]
2008-07-28 !! q98.2 (uncertain) sits in f55 (accumulation A) [Input: S729YM.j]
2008-07-28 !! q98.3 (clay lump) sits in f55 (accumulation A) [Input: S729YM.j]
2008-07-28 !! q98.4 (grinding stone) sits in f55 (accumulation A) [Input: S729YM.j]
2008-07-28 !! q98.5 (shell artifact) sits in f55 (accumulation A) [Input: S729YM.j]
2008-07-28 !! q98.6 (uncertain) sits in f55 (accumulation A) [Input: S729YM.j]
2008-07-28 !! q98.7 (uncertain) sits in f55 (accumulation A) [Input: S729YM.j]
2008-07-28 !! q98.8 (stone tool) sits in f55 (accumulation A) [Input: S729YM.j]
2008-07-29 !! q105.1 (stone) sits in f55 (accumulation A) [Input: S729YM.j]
2008-07-29 !! q105.2 (lithic specimen) sits in f55 (accumulation A) [Input: S729YM.j]
2008-07-28 sE q98 (bones, items, pottery) sits in f55 (accumulation A) [Input: S729YM.j]
2008-07-29 yM q105 (bones, items, pottery) sits in f55 (accumulation A) [Input: S729YM.j]
2008-08-05 sE q153 (pottery) sits in f55 (accumulation A) [Input: S805YM.j]
Type of contact: earliest events 2008-08-13 lR f55 (accumulation A) covers f57 (pavement, type b) [Input: S813LR.j]

Spatial Aggregation

Roster Date Author Record
Aggregate (to which element belongs) 2008-08-19 lR a1 (room) [Input: S818lR.j]

Time Sequencing

Roster Date Author Record
Stratum (to which element belongs) 2008-09-14 lR s14JPC (middle occupation) [Input: S914LR.j]

4. TYPOLOGY

Morphology

Roster Date Author Record
Color 2008-07-28 yM light brownish gray [Input: S802LR.j]
Hardness, compaction 2008-07-28 yM medium [Input: S802LR.j]
Texture, surface finish 2008-07-28 yM silty clay loam [Input: S802LR.j]

6. REFERENCE

Analogical Record

Roster Date Author Record
View/drawing of features

v36
2008-07-28 eE [Input: S802LC.j]

v58a
2008-08-06 yM [Input: S812LC.j]

v58b
2008-08-06 yM [Input: S812LC.j]

v155
2008-09-06 lC [Input: S916LC.j]

v155a
2008-09-06 lC [Input: S916LC.j]

v157
2008-09-06 lC [Input: S916LC.j]

w35
2008-09-13 lC [Input: S913LC.J]

Disposition

Roster Date Author Record
Removed (feature), discarded/missing (item) 2008-07-28 yM S729 [Input: S802LR.j]
Storage 2008-08-12 lR S805 [Input: S812LR7.j]