| Roster |
Date |
Author |
Record |
| Evidence |
2005-08-18 |
jW |
A surface, of unknown depth, of "bakhia", the local virgin soil which consists of reddish clay with white inclusions extending from k102 south into k12. It gives every indication of being the third millennium surface of the temple mound that extended from the monumental wall, f11, up to the BA temple. [Input: P818JW1.j] |
| Notes on deposition |
2005-08-18 |
jW |
Because the temple mound is so far above the level of the surrounding ground, this bakhia must have been dug elsewhere and carried up to the temple mound for application on a prepared surface. [Input: P818JW1.j] |
| 2005-08-24 |
jW |
gB and jW discussed the relationship between the terrace, f50, which we hypothesize was built during the Early Dynastic IIIb period, and the monumental wall, f11. Since the terrace and the wall appear to join at least 50cm under the extant wall top, jW believed that the top stones of the wall, which matched the apron, f10, represented a late (Mitanni) addition to an earlier EDIIIb phase of the wall. gB, based on evidence from earlier excavations in unit B6, thought it more likely that the wall we see was the original one and that the terrace, f50, was covered with a surface of brick, which melted and washed away. The top of the brick surface would have been at the same elevation as the wall top. A flat surface running E-W that interrupts the N-S slope one meter N of the wall may be the foundation for one of several concentric rings of stone or bricks that highlighted the rise of the mound. [Input: P824JW2.j] |