|
2010-09-27 |
pC |
Some conclusions can be made after the end of excavations in B7. We decided to dig only for one week because we wanted to understand what is f1 and f2 and leave the exposing of all the structure for next season. Digging to the east of f1 we saw that the wall does not continue to the east. Instead digging to the west we discovered that wall f1 is a stepped structure with a nice staircase f19. The staircase leads with 4 steps from west to the east: while we did not found structures to the east, it still remain unclear the function of the staircase. Several hypothesis were rised during the excavation. What seems clear is that f1 and f19 is a building previous to Temple BA: 1) It is lower than the temple and practically goes under the southern wall of temple BA (it would be contemporary if temple BA has high stone foundations and in this way f1 would abut the souhern wall of the temple), 2) f1 and f19 is a staircase and therefore it leads from a lower level than the temple 3) f1 has a different orientation than temple BA. It was noticed the similarity between the western stone wall going against the northern western corner of the temple and wall f1, which could go against the south eastern corner of the temple (gB). If this is the case, Temple BA is built on top of a high stone platform, similar to Steinbau 1 in Tell Chuera. f1 and f19 could belong to a monumental stone building (a temple? an altar? a staircase similar to the monumental staircase in J2?). [Input: U912PC.J]
|