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.fd New techniques for data entry to communicate commonalities among features.
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-mt At the daily meeting, gB introduced several methods for describing commonalities among elements that were not candidates for aggregation.  One was to group the elements as an assemblage, coded as a b followed by a sequential number.  The second was to discuss the commonalities on the left-hand side of the UGR.  The third was to prepare a text file which describes the commonality and then link it to the elements that share it.

-sg The fifth stage of work will address plots and their link to drawings.  jW will assure the the format for the UGR records matches that required by the plots section to automatically call up the full AutoCAD function.

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;Confluent Features
;	At one place in the NE corner of locus k23 there was a succession of at least three distinct special-use features, one atop the other.  Starting from the top, near the surface was a hard-packed circle of soil with a burned spot in the middle, f136.  Underneath was a circular layer of fist-sized stones in a matrix of mud, f142, at an elevation of about 50cm above the wahal surface, f152, of the Mittani rebuild of the temple mound.  On the bottom was pit, a6, which was cut into the baqaya surface, f109, of the original BA temple mound built during the Early Dynastic perion.
;	It was inappropriate to link these features as an a aggregate because they are not in the same stratum.  Likewise, they are typologically different and cannot be linked as an assemblage.
;	Although the congruence of these features is possibly a chance occurrence, that location could also have been ritually important.  For example, all three elements are just to the east of some deteriorated mudbrick architecture, f215.  Unfortunately, excavation ended before the extent and function of f215 could be determined.  As such we can only say that the link among the three features to a continuing ritual is a distinct possibility.
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