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Introduction
J4 was an active excaation or one season in 2006. However, a portion of J4 unit (T14) has been excavated as part of the B6 in 2001 by the German team of the university of Tübingen, and other loci had been already investigated previously; k82 and k83 in season 2004-5 as part of J2 unit.
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The 2006 season
18 loci were laid, but only 15 were excavated. The main goal was to look into the possibility of a specular arrangement of the monumental staircase complex. It was mainly set around wall f10
(exposed in T14) to see if the secondary Apron as exposed in J2 area continued on the east.
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Follow-up work to the 2006 season
The documentation work that takes place during the excavation was continued afterwards, working on stratigraphy andd understanding the depositional history of the area.
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The excavvation of J6 in 2008-2009 seasons
The more profound understanding of the unit J4 came from he excavations of unit J6, set to the south of J4, which also subsumed parts of J4 under it. Through J6 it was possible to understand the deposition of the Mittani layers directly on top of 3rd millennium layers (the finds of k100.
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Follow-up work in the later years
The analytical record (the right hand side) was complete in terms of data entry by the end of the 2010 where a lot of work on the phase and strata assignement was done, in addition to adding more ddetails aout the understanding of the stratigraphical situation in the light of J6 excavations. However, the right hand side needded revision and completion, and synthetic record (left hand side) needed to be written.
his was done between 2022 and 2025.
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