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Unit Book J3

J3f72

Processed on 2024-07-27

1. OVERVIEW

Roster Date Author Record
Category !! !! installation
Best definition 2005-09-04 rE stone installation [Input: P918JW3.j]
Summary 2012-10-07 jW Line of large stones in k12 which rest on accumulation f34 and are posssibly the western edge of middle Mittani apron f10. [Input: WX07JW1.j]
Best image 2006-04-20 jW
v31 [Input: Q420JW1.j]

2. IDENTIFICATION

Designation

Roster Date Author Record
Description (summary) 2005-08-29 jW A north-south line of seven large limestone blocks along the western boundary of k12 atop compacted fill, f34. The northernmost stone had previously been designated f35 when it was the only stone showing. It is likely part of re-modeling in the Middle Mittani period which included the construction of the western part of the second apron, f10. [Input: Q302JW2.j]

3. STRATIGRAPHY

Volumetric Localization

Roster Date Author Record
Locus 2005-09-04 rE k12 [Input: P918JW3.j]
Relays (applicable to elements) 2005-09-03 rE r336 (40800 48859 - 9074 / Relay location: SW corner point 1) [Input: P904RE1R.j]
2005-09-03 rE r337 (40791 48894 - 9081 / Relay location: SE corner point 2) [Input: P904RE1R.j]
2005-09-03 rE r338 (40847 48925 - 9096 / Relay location: Arc 1a point 3) [Input: P904RE1R.j]
2005-09-03 rE r339 (40876 48950 - 9096 / Relay location: Arc 1b point 4) [Input: P904RE1R.j]
2005-09-03 rE r340 (40896 48945 - 9095 / Relay location: Arc 1c point 5) [Input: P904RE1R.j]
2005-09-03 rE r341 (40910 48964 - 9098 / Relay location: Arc 2a point 6) [Input: P904RE1R.j]
2005-09-03 rE r342 (40919 48997 - 9120 / Relay location: Arc 2b point 7) [Input: P904RE1R.j]
2005-09-03 rE r343 (40937 48998 - 9117 / Relay location: Arc 2c point 8) [Input: P904RE1R.j]
2005-09-03 rE r344 (40950 49013 - 9142 / Relay location: E1 point 9) [Input: P904RE1R.j]
2005-09-03 rE r345 (40965 49016 - 9133 / Relay location: E2 point 10) [Input: P904RE1R.j]
2005-09-03 rE r346 (40983 48991 - 9139 / Relay location: E3 point 11) [Input: P904RE1R.j]
2005-09-03 rE r347 (41006 49006 - 9147 / Relay location: NE corner point 12) [Input: P904RE1R.j]
2005-09-03 rE r348 (41019 48973 - 9157 / Relay location: NW corner point 13) [Input: P904RE1R.j]
M#/elev @top 2005-09-04 rE 9157 [Input: P918JW3.j]
M#/elev @bottom 2005-09-04 rE 9062 [Input: P918JW3.j]

Contact Association

Roster Date Author Record
Type of contact: contemporary events/movable items 2005-08-22 rE f72 (stone installation) bonds with f35 (isolated stone) [Input: P824GM.j]
Type of contact: earliest events 2005-09-18 rE f72 (stone installation) covers f78 (isolated stone) [Input: Q301JW.j]
2005-09-18 rE f72 (stone installation) covers f79 (isolated stone) [Input: Q301JW.j]
2005-09-18 rE f72 (stone installation) sits in f33 (laminations) [Input: Q301JW.j]

Spatial Aggregation

Roster Date Author Record
Aggregate (to which element belongs) 2007-07-17 !! a3 (installation) [Input: R718JW.j]

Time Sequencing

Roster Date Author Record
Stratum (to which element belongs) 2012-09-09 jW s144J3B [Input: W909JW.j]
Phase (to which element belongs) 2012-08-26 !! f532 (apron) [Input: W826JW.j]
2012-08-26 !! f549 (stone installation) [Input: W826JW.j]
2012-09-09 !! h7mJ3B [Input: W909JW.j]
2012-10-07 !! f10 (apron) [Input: WX07JW.j]
2012-10-07 !! f35 (isolated stone) [Input: WX07JW.j]
2012-10-07 !! f36 (isolated stone) [Input: WX07JW.j]
2012-10-07 !! f55 (isolated stone) [Input: WX07JW.j]
2012-10-07 !! f63 (accumulation D) [Input: WX07JW.j]
2012-10-07 !! f72 (stone installation) [Input: WX07JW.j]
2012-10-07 !! f75 (stone installation) [Input: WX07JW.j]
Strata (included within phase) 2012-10-07 jW s144J3B [Input: WX07JW.j]
Stratigraphic reasons of assignment 2006-04-26 jW Same elevation as apron, f10, but sitting in first post-abandonment accumulation, f33. [Input: Q426JW.j]
2012-10-07 jW A line of seven limestone blocks that sit in f33. Although physically separated from it they may mark the western edge of the second apron f10 [Input: WX07JW.j]
Other reasons, reservations, qualifications 2006-04-26 jW May have been a late addition that better defined the western limit of apron, much of which seems to have washed over the top of wall f11 and now forms f39 and f40. [Input: Q426JW.j]
2012-10-07 jW Along with stones f35, f36 and f56 these may be the extant components of the damaged far western edge of construction related to the second apron f10. The stones roughly rest on the same early Mittani accumulations as and fall within the north and south boundaries of the second apron. [Input: WX07JW.j]
Notes on time sequencing 2005-09-11 jW While in the process of taking test photographs, jW closely examined the section of the west baulk of this locus in the vicinity of where the line of stones, f72, was located. It clearly shows a grayish brown deposit, f34, capped in some places by bakhia and a horizontal course of bricks, sloping up from the top of the monumental wall, f11, north to the site of the BA temple. It is about one meter higher than the level of the first complete bakhia layer, f50, that we encountered. In light of the very early date (Late Chalcolithic III) for the sherds found in the accumulations comprising this ashy deposit, it is reasonable to presume that its top represents the level of the original terrace. Digging with the large pick, we failed to recognize the full impact of compacted fill, f34, during the excavations. Since the line of stones, f72, was atop this ashy deposit, we can date the placement of the stones to a period after the monumental wall, f11 was built. We cannot rule out the possibility that f72 was a late, second millennium modification to the wall, f11, and apron, f10, system. [Input: P911JW.j]

4. TYPOLOGY

Morphology

Roster Date Author Record
Ware or Material, species 2005-09-04 rE lithic [Input: P918JW3.j]

6. REFERENCE

Analogical Record

Roster Date Author Record
View/drawing of features

v17
2005-08-25 rE [Input: P904GM5.j]

v17a
2005-08-25 rE [Input: P904GM5.j]

v31
2005-09-05 gM [Input: P918JW2.j]

v31a
2005-09-05 gM [Input: P918JW2.j]

v31b
2005-09-05 gM [Input: P918JW2.j]
v31c
2005-09-05 gM [Input: P918JW2.j]

p5
2006-05-03 jW [Input: Q503JW.j]

Disposition

Roster Date Author Record
Removed (feature), discarded/missing (item) 2005-09-04 rE P905 [Input: P918JW3.j]