.bk J03
.fl Q818jW4.j
.fd Daily journal for Q816
.fn -wk, -cf, -sg, k23  Corrected R109 to change -cf to -sf
.ei jW
.ed Q818
.rd Q817
.ri jW

-wk  For all the sub-units of J03, 6 picks and 16 in support reported for work.  New workmen added substantial capacity to remove soil from ever-deepening trenches.  Abd'el Hamiid serves as an administrative assistant to all three sub-units, focusing on helping to draw sections, filling out tags and taking relays.

-sf Last day in the field for eF, who will now work full-time assembling a collection of obsidian for technical analysis.

-sg Now that the original, EDIII surface of the temple mound has been exposed from the north baulk of k13 to the north face of the monumental wall, f11, and the east-west line of limestone blocks, a4, identified as possible post-Mittani decorative additions to a mound that had covered the wall, we decided to leave a4 on a pedestal and search for more of it in the locus immediately adjacent to the west, k23.  Also, the post abandonment accumulations overlay what we hope is a well-defined N-S strip of the wall as existed during the Mittani period, running from the south wall face in k21, through the wall top in k22, and continuing upward to the north in k23.  There is tantalizing evidence of this late modification in the west baulk of k12 and k101, excavated in MZ18.

k 23
dy Began removing the temporary south baulk that was established for the safety of workmen and to protect the exposed layer of baqaya to the south in k12.  As we were removing accumulation f107, we observed an E-W line of large limestone blocks, a4.  gB believes that they may have been a part of a late addition to the temple mound, perhaps made late in the Mittani period.  We decided for the moment to leave them on a pedestal until the locus to the east, k23 was sufficiently excavated to confirm or deny our hypothesis. To the east of the easternmost stone in a4, we fully excavated the baulk to determine the relationship between the baqaya surface in k12, f50, to the baqaya surface in this locus, f109.  Although jW had anticipated that f109 would be a later addition, the surfaces merged at the south edge of the south baulk.