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Unit Book J5

The Mittani Staircase - Version 1a

J5v124

Processed on 2024-11-03

6. REFERENCE

Analogical Record

Roster Date Author Record
Template

2008-09-09 lH [Input: J05_VWX.j]
Photo of context (v view)

2008-09-03 dM [Input: J05_VWX.j]
View/drawing of features 2008-09-22 jW f136 (accumulation D), f137 (accumulation A), f167 (volumetric material), f168 (gully) [Input: S922JW.j]
View/drawing of locus 2008-09-22 jW k22, k32 [Input: S922JW.j]
View/drawing orientation 2008-09-22 jW looking southwest [Input: S922JW.j]
Text description of view 2008-09-22 jW This final photograph shows the state of k32 at the end of excavations. Although this season the primary purpose was to improve sightlines to the monumental staircase and revetment wall from the viewing platform shown on the upper right, in future seasons we planned to excavate it to learn more about the escarpment, 74, to the earliest wall system, f41, which lays below the laminations, f167. (The laminations probably represent the material from mudbrick and pise buildings on the surrounding hillsides that went out of use and disolved due to weathering. At the time the monumental staircase was built, f137, was the surface of the plaza to the west of it, and covered f74. However, over time it was cut by a gully, f168. The natural accumulation, f136, started just below the topsoil and continued to the laminations. It is primarily post-abandonment accumulation of aeolian soil hardened by standing water. [Input: S922JW.j]
Web view

2008-09-03 dM [Input: J05_VWX.j]