.bk J05
.fl T726jW.j
.fd Daily journal for T726. Feature descriptions and comments
.ei jW
.ed T726
.rd T726
.ri jW

-wk All assigned workmen reported.

-sf jW worked at home for parts of the time before and after breakfast preparing the UGR.  jN worked at home refining the object processing system for all units.

-sy dM took a photo of a corner stake to show the advantage of the two-prong design.  The soil surrounding the front prong had been excavated but the stake was still held securely in place by the back prong.

-eq Distributed two new trowels to Ibrahim and Anwar.

-sg Held an on-site meeting with gB, fAB, jW, sE, eA, jN and the staff of J1 (lC, mM, aA) to discuss the impact of J1's discovery of a floor surface directly adjacent to the portion of stone installation, f188, that is in J1.  The surface, J1f313, contains many pebbles and sherds pressed horizontally.  It was agreed that we should excavate f204 in k100 down to the level of this surface, then try and follow the sherd floor to the west.  Since the escarpment that we are looking for appears to overlay part of the stones of f188, it will help locate the escarpment and clarify the stratigraphy.  There are two large stones just below the extant surface of f204 that may be associated with similar stones at the same elevation located just to the east in J1.

q 311
fo Pottery from this lot was mis-identified as coming from f158.  It really came from f169, immediately below.

-sg During the staff progress review on T724, jW noticed that stair, f21, was built on the line of what we believe is the Third Millennium revetment wall, f41.  The stones of the bottom step of f21 appear to be laid atop f41.  However, the Mittani revetment wall extension, f3, follows a different course and its north end stops short of the platform to the east of the top step of f21.  This raises the possibility that stair, f21, was built in the Third Millennium.  One way to test this hypothesis is to follow the top step of stair, f205, to the north to see if it links to staircase, f21.  Then we could excavate to the west of the link to collect sherds associated with its construction.  Another way is to excavate along the north edge of f21 to collect sherds associated with its construction.  The problem with either approach is that it destroys the monument that we want to preserve.  gB encouraged the J5 staff to develop other alternatives.

f 200
ds A small patch of sandy soil to the south of stone installation, f200 in the southern part of locus k105.  It was stratigraphically linked to, and was probably an extension of, soil in a water channel, f206 found on the north side of f200.

f 211
ds A large, cut, high founded stone block adjacent to revetment wall, f189, in the west end of k106.  It neither bonds with or abuts f189.  Two smaller stones below it suggest that the stone was placed for some purpose which we cannot know.