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2008-7-22 | pC |
After finishing excavating in k65, I moved the team of k65 in k75 (Ibrahim and Fahed): they removed the first 20 cm f39, which I define as top soil, because it was exposed for 2 years. The second pick run was full of big sherds, stones, pebbles and bricks. I think this was already a new feature and not anymore the topsoil. Tomorrow I will assign a new feature. In the North-East corner was found a baked brick with incised lines q64.1 .
[Input file: S722PC.J / S722PC.-J]
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2008-7-23 | pC |
today we removed f43 and found a new layer; it is a compact mud irregular surface with some sherds embedded: it is different from the above layer f43
[Input file: S723PC.J / S723PC.-J]
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2008-7-26 | pC |
today we finished to remove the East baulk of k74 and we finished cleaning all the squares
[Input file: S725PC.J / S725PC.-J]
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2008-7-28 | pC |
We removed f59, which is an accumulation covering a mudbrick structure, which we are exposing and not fully understood; f59 was soft but with patches of harder soil and was characterized by the presence of a lot of pottery and big sherds. since we found a line of bricks in the Eastern part of the square f64, i decided to change feature number and expose the bricks and excavate in the western part which is f65: it is an accumulation which abuts f64 and is characterized by the presence of big sherds, carbons, brick crumples and pieces of tannur. It is the same as f59 which covers it. In the south part of the square aKarim found a rounded and flat clay object which has in one side the impression of a basket ( i2).
[Input file: S728PC.J / S728PC.-J]
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2008-7-29 | pC |
Today we continued to excavate f65, the accumulation aganist the presumed structure in bricks, which is still brickmelt f64. f65 is a mixture of brick melt, pieces of bricks and lot of pottery. After removing f65 we found an homogeneus layer of brickmelt f72; while excavating was very similar to f65, therefore i suppose is still a mixture of brickmelt and soil. It is very similar to f60 in k85, which presents a similar situation to k74. after a meeting with fAB we decided to remove the top 5 cm of f64, in order to see if there is a brickfall or a wall. It was very useful because we saw a clear line of bricks with South direction. After a meeting with gB, fAB and all J6 staff, we instead decided to keep f64 and to excavate to the west f72 to search for the face of a wall. After removing f72 we encontered in the northern part of the square an accumulation without bricks and sloping west. It is f73 and we still did not excavated. Today mKB analyzed the pottery for f59 and f65 and it is all Mittani
[Input file: S729PC.J / S729PC.-J]
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2008-8-2 | pC |
We started to remove the brickmelt f64, beginning from East; we removed also the presumed andiron; there were only fragments and not decorated. In the northern part we found a pit that cuts the brickmelt f64: it is filled by a very soft brown soil with few pottery; at the top of the pit there is a thin line of ash. We did not excavated all the pit, being half of it in the northern baulk. Therefore we decided to remove the baulk: it is f88 and the topmost part is very soft and corresponds to f59.
[Input file: S802PC.J / S802PC.-J]
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2008-8-3 | pC |
Today we finished to remove the northern baulk f88: it was soft and was all accumulation same as f65 and f72. It covered a row of bricks which is very badly preserved and therefore removed and the pit f87. Half of the pit was excavated yesterday and today we excavated the northern part which was in the baulk. It is a round shallow pit, 40 cm high in the northern part and 20 cm in the southern part: this is due to the fact that we missed the top part of it while ecavating f64. This pit cuts f64 and f76, which probably originally belonged to the same structure, which now is melted. The pit cut f92 cuts the brickmelt and was probably a storage pit. when it came in disuse it was filled by earth and at the top by some bricks which sealed the top. The fill f87 was loose earth very fine in texture and soft; it has some rooths and lot of phytoliths, some pottery and stones and a burnt backed brick. There was also q155.1 and q155.2, which are lavorated stones of unknown use. The pottery looks Mittani
[Input file: S803PC.J / S803PC.-J]
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2008-8-4 | pC |
Today we removed f64, which is still brickmelt: it is red brown in color, due to the presence of the bricks, and is full of pottery, which dates to Mittani (mKB). It has some stones and some pieces of tannur. We checked better in section the pit cut f92 and it is clear that it cuts the brickmelt f64: probably first there was the brickfall, then the upper part of it melted and was excavated the pit in the brickfall, then some brick fall into the pit.
[Input file: S804PC.J / S804PC.-J]
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2008-8-5 | pC |
today we removed all f64, which is still brickmelt. It covers f103, which instead is brickfall, characterized by lot of broken bricks and by a brown reddish color. There are 5 stones f106 sitting in it. We found also a large piece of kilin waste q173.1 from one spot.
[Input file: S805PC.J / S805PC.-J]
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2008-8-6 | pC |
Today we removed all the brickfall f103 and we exposed the glacis f107, which is the same as f63, f109, f110
[Input file: S806PC.J / S806PC.-J]
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2008-8-13 | pC |
Today we removed the remaining part of the brickfall above the glacis f107. we assigned a new feature number to this part of the brickfall, being just 10 cm above the glacis: f123 is more compact and bricky, with some charcoal and a lot of pottery. We found at the beginning of the day, in the North-East part of k74, just above the glacis, two Early Dynastic seal impressions ( i8 and i9). The pottery is mostly Mittani but with some earlier sherds mixed (mKB). While exposing the glacis, Su'ar found a floor pavement made of sherds. It seems to be just above the glacis and probably was made by people walking by: 2 m to the North there is the bin, which was dated mittani, therefore the floor could be linked to activities in the bin. We are very closed to Khabur and probably the glacis is dated to Phase 5. In J4 was found a floor J4 f154, located South of the glacis J4 f127. J4 f127 is the same glacis as f107 and probably j4f154 is the same floor as in k74. In J4 k100 was excavated f121, which was at the elevation of 8996@top a hard surface, which is probably the same glacis as f107 and f63 in k84 (8974@top), considering the slope toward South
[Input file: S813PC.J / S813PC.-J]
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2008-8-25 | cVP |
This square is not officially excavated right now but cVP is following the outlines of a structure, possibly a wall, feature number f166.
[Input file: S825CVP.J / S825CVP.-J]
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2008-8-26 | cVP |
In order to more clearly define the nature of the structure f166, a micro-sounding is opened in the broken area of the glacis.
[Input file: S826CVP.J / S826CVP.-J]
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2008-8-26 | cVP |
We open a small rectangle running along the outer face of the possible wall f166, to be able to understand better its nature. In this micro-sounding the upper part consist in ashy layers but under it, and mixed, we have a brickfall accumulation, with brown soil and pieces of broken bricks.
[Input file: SZ31PC.J / SZ31PC.-J]
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2008-8-26 | cVP |
We opened a small rectangular square in the outer face of this structure f166, inside the already existing hole of the glacis, searching down the wall. In the south part is still going down, but in the north end the lower layers of bricks seems to be projected outside, giving the impression of a "glacis"-like or "dyke"-like.
[Input file: SZ31PC.J / SZ31PC.-J]
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