.bk J04 .fl Q906sC.j .fd daily journal Q906 .ei sC .ed Q906 .rd Q906 .ri sC -dy today we will have the visit of the Minister of Syrian Culture and a lot of work need to be carry out in J1 as well as in J3. For this reason, we have been working in J4 only for the first half of the morning in J4 with only one team of workmen. All the other workmen have been working in J3. In J4 we only needed to remove a small portion of the N baulk in k84 left from yesterday excavation and to clean the whole unit. k 84 dy Today we finished to remove the N baulk in k84, f80 (q226, q227). We finish digging here at the elevation of m4450 +54 -121. Just 15cm N to m4412, close to the bottom of the N baulk in k84, I have noticed a fragment of plastic. This therefore belong to the investigation that mH and aP conducted here in the 2004 archaeological season. The elevation of the plastic is m4410 +57 -121. k 73 dy During the cleaning of top of the E baulk of k73 some bricky fragments have been exposed. They are in line with the bricks noticed yesterday in the E section; they seem to run NW-SE.