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-wk The team I send yesterday to J3 will be working there for the next two days; Salah Sadi was present but worked again all the day with the electrician.
-mk Today mk bwp put three control points in the S section of k74, k64, and in the N section of k72.

k 84
dy Today cC and vN removed f96, the saluki bones (f97=i5, q208). A sample of the soil within these bones has been also collected for further analysis (q208.1). Once they finished, they start digging the fill of the pit in the E and N baulk of the square (f86, q210), helped by Kamiran Hussein, in order to look for the bottom of the pit. At the same time we continued digging in the S area of k84 (i.e. 120m N and 300m W from m3830), removing f88, the natural accumulation we have been digging also in k72, k72, k74 as well as k63 and k64 in the first weeks of the excavation (q206, q212). 

k 63
dy Today we continued digging f90 in k63 for the whole day (q204, q207, q211). Before every pick run we decided to dig 100m W and 400S from m4465 with the little pick, in order to check the accumulation/surface below and then dig with the big pick in the whole area. Several pick runs have been done today without notice any change in the consistence and soil matrix in the whole unit. f90 is very compact, and looks to be a surface which has been compacted by water. It is very hard to remove also with the big pick. No stones or bricky material or melted bricks have been found in this locus. It is thus like if that the bricks exposed in the E section of k73 (which indicate the presence of a wall/structure there) and of the two stones f104 (f104.1, f104.2) in the NW corner of k63 (which could be linked with the brick wall or structure exposed in the E section of k73) could have influenced the depositional history in k63. We decided thus to stop digging here and move the team working here in k72. We stop digging here at the elevation of m4465 +44 -126. 
sg Right in the N section of k73 we found a line of stones, six, medium small in dimension; of these, four are long aprox 40cm each (while two are very small in dimension) running W-E right (f146). These look to be in line with two large stone exposed in k83. It looks like that these stones are in line with the suppose revetment wall as it is exposed in J2 (W to the primary and secondary apron). We thus decided to stop digging in k63 (considering also that in that locus we have not find any particular accumulations, indicating any particular use in that area) and we decided to start digging in k72. Before start digging there, we took some general views of the floating stones located here, before their removal. The stone that we are going to remove are: f12 (and its pedestal, f98), f19.2 and f19.3 (and their pedestal, f100), f101.1 and f101.2 (and their pedestal f102) (v58, v58a). We then took a general view of k82 and k72, toghether with the E section of k82, showing the 200m of natural accumulation on top of/between these floating stones (v59, v59a, v59b).

-sg Right in the N section of k73 we found a line of stones, six, medium small in dimension; of these, four are long aprox 40cm each (while two are very small in dimension) running W-E right (f146). These look to be in line with two large stone exposed in k83. It looks like that these stones are in line with the suppose revetment wall as it is exposed in J2 (W to the primary and secondary apron). We thus decided to stop digging in k63 (considering also that in that locus we have not find any particular accumulations, indicating any particular use in that area) and we decided to start digging in k72. Before start digging there, we took some general views of the floating stones located here, before their removal. The stone that we are going to remove are: f12 (and its pedestal, f98), f19.2 and f19.3 (and their pedestal, f100), f101.1 and f101.2 (and their pedestal f102) (v58, v58a). We then took a general view of k82 and k72, toghether with the E section of k82, showing the 200m of natural accumulation on top of/between these floating stones (v59, v59a, v59b).

k 72 
dy Today we start digging again in k72. We start by removing some floating stones and their pedestal: i.e. f12 in the N baulk of k72 (and its pedestal f98, q214), f19.2 and f19.3 close to the W section (with their pedestal f100, q215), and f101.1 and f101.2 close to the W section of the square (with their pedestal f102, q213). Before their removal, we took the relay of each of them (r71 for f19.2, r72 for f19.3, r73 for f101.1 and r74 for f101.2) and then dM took a general view of these stones of k72 (v58, v58a).  Tomorrow we start digging f103 in the whole unit. 

k 73
dy Today we continued digging f89 in k73 for the whole day (q205, q209). We assigne a feature number to the bricks that looks to be part of a wall. This wall/structure looks to have a rounded shape but, this shape could be due to the fact that most of the bricks on top are very badly preserved, and thus can give a wrong impression. We define this as a wall, altough it could be possible that in the next days we are going to review this definition. By looking at the wall section three lines of bricks and a grey mortar between them are visible. By digging the bricky accumulation around this wall/structure, we exposed, right in the N section of k73 six stones, medium small in dimension; of these, four are long aproximately 40cm each, while two are very small in dimension. They have a W-E allignment, and look to be in line with two large stone exposed in k83. It looks like that these stones are alligned with the revetment wall as it is exposed in J2 (W to the primary and secondary apron). Today we finished to expose, in the NE area of the square, the pebbles, which seem to be part of a small pebble floor (aproximately 80mx70m), which ends in the E in a small natural floor charachterized by the presence of pottery sherds lying horizontally (aproximately 60mx40m). This pebble floor is at the same elvation and it is alligned with the small pebble floor exposed last week in k83. In the SW area of k73, S to the bricky wall/structure, have been exposed only melted bricks and brick fragments, which gave to the soil a brown colour; it is to noticed also that we did not expose any ash layer, as espected on the basis of the asy spots noticed one week ago in the E section of k73. Both in the NE and SE area of the locus, we have been also exposing only soil mixted with melted bricks and large fragments of bricks. In the E section of the square, instead, some bricks have been found, which looks to be again part of a bricky wall/structure running N-W just in/below the E baulk. They are located at 50m S from m4467, and this structure/wall is well preserved for aproximately 120m in lenght. By looking at the E section, we noticed four lines of grey mortar, therefore it is possible that here we have 4 lines of bricks in place. 
sg It would be possible that f146, the six stones exposed in the N section of k73, are part of the revetment wall as it is exposed in J2 (W to the primary and secondary apron). We thus decided to stop digging in k63 (considering also that there we did not find any accumulation indicating that that area was used), and to start digging in k72 in order to look for these stones.

-sg It would be possible that f146, the six stones exposed in the N section of k73, are part of the revetment wall as it is exposed in J2 (W to the primary and secondary apron). We thus decided to stop digging in k63 (considering also that there we did not find any accumulation indicating that that area was used), and to start digging in k72 in order to look for these stones.