Unit Book J4

The Eastern Top of the Main Staircase (Version 1a)
J4 synthetic View / Stratigraphy

Phase 65MZA within Unit J4

Yasmine Mahmoud – July 2025

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Stratigraphy


After phase 63 where no human activites are attested in J4, some activities began to take place. However, this rebuilding phase in J4 is on a smaller scale compared to other areas around the monumental staircase. The area began to gradually buildup and then eroad, before we can start seeing some activities where some stone and mud brick structures were constructed (f93, f84, f159, f170). However, the south of J4 affected by the brickfall bf^2 in J6, was not used. In fact, the entire area of J4 goes back tto not being used in the later stratum of this phase as a consequence of the fire that followed the brickfall in J6.



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Typology

All the ceramic that was collected dates to the Middle Mittani period. Interstingly, No artifacts or sherds were collected from inside the bin f93.

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