.bk J04
.fl U216sC.j
.fd _J04 strata assignment (H 32-MZA_____s49 and resp def)
.ei sC
.ed U216

.rd U216
.ri sC

s 
49-MZA	10,50,121,150,158,160	Building activities	32-MZA
49-MZA	10,50,121,150,158,160	Building activities	32-MZA

s 49-MZA
;df Before building of ^glacis3 in J06 unit
ds In J04 unit, few are the features that can be ascribed to this stratum: the lower portion of f121 and all the feature below this: f150, f158 and f160. f158 (togheter with the lower portion of f150) is the same as J06f164 (cfr. J06f164), a red accumulation found in the east baulk of k84 in the 2008-2009 excavation season when this locus was dug as part of J06 area (J04k100 was turned into J06k84). When, toward the end of the 2006 excavation season, we expose these features while doing a sounding in k100, we did not understand properly the nature of the layers found below f121 and f124 within this locus, since, the pottery analysis of this feature indicate the presence of Calcholitic sherds (mKB, communication to J04 and all Mozan staff, at the end of the 2006 excavation season). It was unclear how was possible to find, right below accumulations dated to the Mittani Period (Phase 63-MZA) layers dated to the 3rd Millennium BC. However, the excavations carried out in 2008-9 in J06 unit showed a similar stratigraphical situation. From these excavations was cleared that J06f164 (which corresponds to J04f158 and J04f160) is a fill located east of wall J02f129) and had the function of a glacis layer made to protect the stone wall located immediatly on the west (J02f129, for this, please, see J06f164), and the pottery recovederd was rich in Chalcolithic sherds which was the same situation as we found in 2006 while digging J04f158 and J04f160. On the basis of the equivalence of  J06f164 to J04f158 and J04f160 it is possible to assigne these feature to Phase 32, and thus, within s49. It is probably in this stratum that also f10 was built, as part of the building activities on the western side of the temple mound, as suggested by the result of the investigations carried out in the 2009 excavation season; from the information gathered in the last two excavation seasons, it seems that f10 could to be an extension of the revetment wall. In the beginning of the 2006 excavation season, we thought that f10 could have been a possible extension -on the east- of the secondary Apron (J02f131) supposing it to be a specular structure of the secondary Apron as it exposed in J02 unit (for this, please, cfr. Presupposition), altought it was located definitely higher in elevation as this was exposed in J02 (for the new interpretation of f10, please, cfr. J06 f218).
;f158 elev: 8854-8846___f160 elev: 8846-8813
;f164 -J06- elev: 8865-8815___top elevation non corrisponde con top elv di f121, che è: 9011-8854, a differenza di quanto pensa pC che siano la stessa feature, fare nota per patty.
; (f164 is described as 'red orange granular soil, medium thick in the north portion of the locus, while is thin and almost horizontal in the southern portion of k84')

h 32-MZA
df Imperial Akkadian
ds k100 was the only locus, in J04 Unit, where we exposed layers belonging to the Imperial Akkadian Period (Phase 32-MZA) in the 2006 excavation season; this phase is represented by few features: f121 (i.e., the lower portion of f121), f150, f158 and f160. Once we finished digging in J04 unit, the nature of these layers was unclear, since, the analysis of the pottery recovered within features f158 and f160 indicated the presence of some Chalcolithic sherds (communication of mKB to J04 and all Mozan staff). The recovery of this pottery was very difficult to understand in the light of the fact that the top-most portion of f121 was dated to the Mittani period (always on the basis of the pottery recovered, cfr. analysis of the pottery on Q915 by mKB). Thanks to the excavations carried out in the same locus in 2008 and 2009 (k100 was incorporated, during these excavation seasons, within J06 unit as k84), it has been possible to understand the nature of the layers found while doing the deep sounding in J04k100, i.e., J04f158 and J04f160. These features are the same of J06f164 which is a glacis layer (i.e., J06^glacis 3) made to protect a stone wall located on the west, J02f129 (for this, please, see J06f164 and J06^glacis 3); the wall J02f129 was found in the 2004 excavation season during the excavations in J02 unit. The pottery recovered within J06f164 revealed Chalcolithic sherds, dating this and other layers related with this (cfr. all the features within s49 in J06 unit) back to the 3rd millennium BC (cfr. analysis of the pottery on S901 by mKB) thus revealing that in this portion of the tell mound 3rd millennium BC layers were located right below Mittani accumulations. Within s49, falls also f10. Concerning this stone structure, we suppose that it was probably built in Phase 32-MZA as well, o slightly earlier, as part of the building activities on the western side of the temple mound. In the beginning of the excavation in J04 unit, in 2006, we interpreted f10 to be a possible extension -on the east- of J02f131, the secondary Apron, thinking that J02f131 could have had a specular structure (cfr. Presupposition), altough the different elevation between the stone structure located in J02 (J02f131) and the one in J04 (f10). The excavations carried out in 2008-9, instead, cleared that f10 is an extension of the revetment wall (cfr. J06 and J01 excavation units).