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-wk Fourteen of fifteen workmen reported.  Sipan again absent.  jW and fAB discussed the need for a replacement.

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nv Object found in a small ash lens imbedded in the pebble floor, f254, near the northeastern corner of brick wall, a11.

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su We continued to remove the pebbles of this feature.  What had originally appeared to be a single layer pavement is much deeper in many places than one would expect of a floor.  It now appears as if it may have been pebble-rich fill to level and stabilize a surface below, which sloped away to the southwest from the Mittani period revetment wall, f41.

-dy In k105, we concentrated our attention in three areas, north and south of the brick wall, f255; and in the southeastern corner, near the baulk separating k105 from k106 to the east.  In the southeast corner of pebble fill, f254, adjacent to f255, we exposed a fifth "step" of the stepped stone structure, f205.  It was below and south of the fourth "step" f257.  To the south of the southeast corner of wall, a11, we made a small test probe to find the bottom of wall, f41.  The accumulation just above what we believe to be the bottom was very clean and had few sherds.  However, mKB and hQ evaluated them as from Phase 3 (JPB sequence).  This is the earliest material found so far in k105.  At this level, we also discovered a large, flat stone oriented, southeast to northwest, f265, about 50cm west of wall, f41.  Between this stone and the wall was a surface of broken stones, f267.  In the southeast corner we continued to remove accumulations above what we hypothesize is the stone escarpment to the revetment wall, f189, assuming that it continues to the west from k106 into k105.<bk>In k106 we continued to excavate to the west, following the southernmost line of stones of ^esc1.  We also began to excavate a two-meter wide sounding next to the entire extent of the west baulk of k106.  After one pick run we encountered a hard, reddish mass of soil, f268, which may have served as part of ^esc2 during one of the use phases of the revetment wall, f189.