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-wk Today after breakfast I sent all the workmen to J3. I continued working in J4 with only one team. All the staff went home to do object description.
-mk Today we removed markers m4378 in the E baulk of k83, m4412 and m4411 in the N baulk of k84

k 72
dy Today we started by removing the dirt left from yesterday excavation from the removing of f103. We then start digging f103 (q218). Since I have been asked for workmen we stop digging here, clean the whole unit, and then I send the team working here to J3. Another floating stone has been found in the pedestal of stone f12, f98. I thus assigne a new feature number to this floating stone (f106) and to its pedestal (f107). During the cleaning of the whole locus a tannur has been exposed in the SW area of the square (f112).

k 62
dy Today we did not worked in this square. We only assigne a new feature number to the two floating stones (and relative pedestal) close to the N baulk of k62: f108 (close to the W section, with the pedestal being f109) and f110 (with the pedestal being f111).

k 84
dy Today cC and vN finished to dig the pit f86 (q219) in the N baulk of k84, reaching its bottom (located at the elevation of m4410 +70 -140). dM took a particular view of the bottom of the pit (v60). I then move the workmen (Kamiran Hussein and his team) to remove f80, the N baulk of k84 (q220, q222, q223, q224, q225). While digging this feature we expose, at the elevation of m4377 +78 -119, a very compact surface. This surface is characterized by the presence of pebbles and it is rich in pottery and lithic artifacts, such as fragments of hammers and of stones; these stones are polished from use, which suggests that they have been used as a tool (q223.1, q223.2, q224.1 and q224.2). From today excavation is still left a small portion of the baulk (100m from m4412). We'll finish to remove tomorrow.

k 73
dy Today we continued digging f89 in k73 (q217). We reached the bottom of f93, the bricky wall, and exposed the small pebble floor f143, W to the bricky wall. f93 sits on top of stones of small dimensions. gB told us that this bricky could be a bin contruction, as found in houses or temples open areas. As noticed already yesterday, the pebble floor f143 W to f93 is at the same elevation and linked with the small pebble floor of k83 (for this reason we assigne them the same feature number, f143). E of f93 we have been digging surfaces characterized by soil mixed with melted bricks and small fragments of brick.