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Unit Book J5

The Mittani Staircase - Version 1a

J5k12

Processed on 2024-11-03

1. OVERVIEW

Roster Date Author Record
Best image 2009-03-13 jW [Input: T313JW.j]

2. IDENTIFICATION

Designation

Roster Date Author Record
Description (summary) 2009-03-18 jW A square, immediately to the south of k13. It delimits the previously excavated (as unit J1) region containing revetment wall, f189. It was not surveyed this season - rather the coordinates were obtained by extending to the south and east existing survey lines . [Input: T318JW1.j]

3. STRATIGRAPHY

Recovery/Assignment

Roster Date Author Record
Daily notes about recovery of elements 2008-08-24 lH We started removing the natural accumulation, f158, after we photographed the water chanel, v104, that cuts its way through this accumulation. We began to cut a new section of the east face of the east baulk in order to dig effectively for the escarpment of revetment wall, f3. The escarpment begins and can be seen clearly as feature 239 in J1 and continues to the west. It most probably ends as f74 of wall f41 in the middle of J5. [Input: S824LH2.j]
2008-08-25 lH Today we removed the compact natural accumulation, f158, especially the part that abuts the revetment wall. The upper sloping part of the red, stone-like escarpment, f169, appeared under the accumulationof f158. We started to follow the escarpment which slops pasically towards the south in this locus. [Input: S825LH1.j]
2008-08-26 lH After we found out that the sloping compact floor, f169,is not the escarpment, but the floor accumulation which coveres it; we started to remove this accumulation. Alaso we extended our excavationarea toward the south and removed the rest of the natural accumulation of f158 which used to cover the floor accumulation, f169. [Input: S826LH.j]
2008-08-27 lH We completed preparations for exploration for westward extension of the escarpment originally found in J1. From overhead, it is clear that we have located it on the eastern edge of the locus. The search is complicated by the fact that the escarpment is covered by a hard deposit of similar material that has melted from the glacis above, f169. We will continue this project next season. [Input: S827LH.j]

Volumetric Localization

Roster Date Author Record
Elements within locus 2009-09-01 jW a10 (stone installation) [Input: T901JW.j]
2008-07-13 mO f6 (stone installation) [Input: S914LH.j]
2008-08-07 sNP f113 (isolated stone) [Input: S914LH.j]
2008-08-25 lH f169 (accumulation A) [Input: S914LH.j]
2008-08-27 lH f186 (wall) [Input: S914LH.j]
2008-09-08 lH f199 (stone installation) [Input: S914LH.j]
2008-08-23 sNP q245 (pottery) [Input: S823DL1.j]
2008-08-23 dL q247 (pottery) [Input: S823DL1.j]
2008-08-26 lH q264 (pottery), q266 (bones, pottery) [Input: S827DL.j]
2008-08-27 lH q275 (bones, pottery) [Input: S827DL.j]
Extension of locus or q-lot 2009-03-18 jW m4324 [Input: T318JW1.j]
Length of two sides 2009-03-18 jW 500E [Input: T318JW1.j]
2009-03-18 jW 500S [Input: T318JW1.j]
Notes on volumetric localization 2009-03-18 jW The perimeter points that define this locus are, proceding clockwise from the NW corner: m4324, m4920, r1166, r1167. [Input: T318JW.j]

6. REFERENCE

Analogical Record

Roster Date Author Record
View/drawing of locus

v2
2008-07-13 lH [Input: S714DL5.j]

v2b
2008-07-13 lH [Input: S714DL5.j]

v4
2008-07-14 lH [Input: S714DL5.j]

v4b
2008-07-14 lH [Input: S714DL5.j]

v103
2008-08-24 jW [Input: S824LH1.j]

v103a
2008-08-24 jW [Input: S824LH1.j]

v104
2008-08-24 jW [Input: S824LH1.j]

v104a
2008-08-24 jW [Input: S824LH1.j]

v115
2008-09-19 jW [Input: S919JW.j]

v115a
2008-09-19 jW [Input: S919JW.j]

v115b
2008-09-19 jW [Input: S919JW.j]

v131
2008-09-22 jW [Input: S922JW.j]

v131a
2008-09-22 jW [Input: S922JW.j]

v135
2008-09-22 jW [Input: S922JW.j]

p1
2009-03-23 jW [Input: T323JW1.j]

p6
2009-03-30 jW [Input: T330JW1.j]