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Roster |
Date |
Record |
| a5 |
H99 |
2006-08-21 |
We have no apparent cases of intrusion in the glacis or in the natural accumulations above the Plaza until the latest, post-sacral phase (h7-JPA). Accordingly, a5 requires special attention. During excavation, the top of the pit was noticed just above the level of the glacis. Since the pit is in the section of k13, it could be determined that indeed it was not cut from above the glacis surface, and that the grey, ashy accumulation found elsewhere directly above the glacis covers it imemdaitely (see v81). There are two possible scenarios to explain this pattern of deposition. (1) It may have been cut in the final era of the Mittani period when natural accumulation had covered the monumental structures (wall, f11; apron, f10; J2 staircase) along the periphery of the temple mound. The location of the pit could have marked the outer limit of the sacral area, which now consisted of the baqaya surface from the pit up to the BA temple. The pit possibly would then have been cut for ceremonial purposes, as a poor memory of earlier cultic activities at the foot of the Temple Terrace. This would date the pit to the very end of phase h6B-JPA. (2) Alternatively, the pit could have been dug by Assyrians who displaced the Mittani at Urkesh. To them, the still extant mound would have had no sacred meaning and they could have dug the pit where it was most convenient to them for any one of a variety of purposes. This would date the pit to the very beginning of phase h7-JPA. [Input: Q821JW1.j]
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| i20.1 |
Q4 |
2010-01-19 |
Several similar glass pendants were found at Nuzi (Starr 1939 Nuzi), all of green glass and belonging to "three principal forms," all having in common "the sun in the center, the eight radiating rays, and the dots between each ray. The decoration is invariably in raised relief." (Vol I, p. 451; Pl. 120 NN, OO, XX). They are discussed, and other examples are given, by Dan Barag in (Oppenheim et al. 1970 Glassmaking, p. 140 and Fig. 15. The Nuzi pendants come from the destruction deposit marking the end of Stratum II (second half of the 15th century and beginning of the 14th), and seem to be primarily associated with rituals practiced in the Temple and in the Palace Shrine (Barag, p. 135 f.). [Input: U119GB.j]
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| i20.1 |
Q4 |
2010-01-19 |
Similar pendants in gold are known from Ebla (Aruz et al. 2008 Beyond Babylon, p. 40), the Uluburun shipwreck (op. cit., p. 350 f.), Qatna (op. cit., p. 352). [Input: U119GB.j]
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