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-wk Twelve of fifteen assigned workmen reported.  Omo in Hassake for baculauriate exam administration.  Sipan's absence unexplained.

f 227
su This feature was originally described as the fill of a large pit cut into accumulation, f158.  Further investitgation has clarified the situation; it is rather a Mittani deposit in a channel cut into the Third Millennium deposit by an erosion event.

f 228
ds This feature was originally described as the cut of a large pit.  Further investigation indicates that it was rather the cut of a catastrophic erosion event into accumulation, f158, in the southwestern corner of k106.

-sg As a result of several meetings throughout the day among gB, fAB, mKB, and jW the strategy over the last week was altered to assure that we could meet the major goal of the excavation; namely to clarify the nature of the Late Chalcolithic mound upon which the Early Dynastic revetment wall, f189, and accompanying structures were built.  As a result of the discovery of the stone first escarpment (f188 and f225) and the clarification of the nature of the layered second escarpment above it (f184, f241, and f242)  in locus k106, we can now follow the first escarpment west to the west section of k106.  We will carefully remove the Mittani accumulations above and abutting the second escarpment (f243 and f252) then excavate as much of this Early Dynastic layered escarpment, ^esc2, as necessary to expose the stones of the first escarpment, ^esc1.  The situation farther to the west and north in locus k105 is more problematical.  Here there are a multitude of accumulations, floors, and structures above the Third Millennium levels.  The key to our understanding of the shape of the Late Chalcolithic mound in this locus is to fully expose a portion of the southwest face of wall, f41, which we hypothesize was built in the Third Millennium atop the Late Chalcolithic mound as an adjunct or continuation of the revetment wall.  Hopefully, we can date f41 and expose the first escarpment, esc1, which we expect rests directly on the LC mound based on the findings in J1.  We will need all our resources to accomplish this and we will have to work with large picks when we are removing accumulations and structures we understand and have documented.  To accomplish this we will cease excavations in k100.  We will also closely monitor the ceramics to detect the transitions between constuction phases.  gB suggested that when we use the big pick to excavate a feature, we note this under the procedures code.  He also suggested that we discuss our two strategic options for excavating in k106.