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2008-7-14 | pC |
today we begin to excavate in this square, beginning whith the top soil f5 q4: it has dark organic bands, roots and stones of 10-20cm, and lot of pottery sherds. After a pick run we changed feature in f7, which is a natural accumulation, characterized by the presence of roots, stones and lot of pottery: hB has beeen looking at them and she found very interesting: they are mixed up, but there are Khabur and Mittani. We should find very high Mittani, so we look already from the top features
[Input file: S714PC.J / S714PC.-J]
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2008-7-15 | pC |
In k75 we keep also the same feature as yesterday f7 (hB: sherds mixed Khabur-mittani), but after a pick run i decided to change, being the clay more clean, fine in texture as f6 in k85 at the same elevation. f9 is the same as f6 in k85: it is fine in texture, hard when picked. There are a lot of pottery sherds. We found one Mittani painted sherd. sMuhammad exposed an area where the surface is harder and has a lot of stones (5cm) and sherds embedded, liyng flat: this is probably due to the presence of water flowing to this area, and probably is not due to human presence. I decided to relay and photograph this area and to give a new feature, f10: f10 sits in f9 and expands in the southern area of k75 and goes toward south in k76. I decided to finish excavating in k74 and move the workmen in k65.
[Input file: S714PC.J / S714PC.-J]
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2008-7-16 | pC |
in k75 Fahed is the only pickmen for today: he went very fast, even the soil was hard: he removed first the South-east area which is f10 and then continue to remove f9. We forgot to take the bottom elevation of f10, but is only 10 cm thick. Today we keept the same feature because there was no particular change in the soil: f9 is still crumby in consistence and hard when picked. It is fine in texture as f6 in k85. Today from this feature we collected very few pottery. In the center of the square Fahed found an animal hole, which is at the elevation of 9191@ and is 5cm in diameter. After a pickrun the soil is more fine and has patches of softer and harder soil. In the North baulk there is a stone, probably floating.
[Input file: S716PC.J / S716PC.-J]
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2008-7-17 | pC |
Today we continued removing f9, which is still the same of yesterday: it is hard when picked, has some pebbles (>10cm) and has patches of soft and harder soil and is crumby in consistency. After two pick runs i decided to change feature in f17, because the consistency was softer and very similar to f8 in k85, which is soft when picked and fine in texture and has few pottery sherds. f17 is characterized by the presence of phytolitics and some rooths. At the end of the day came out the top of some stones.
[Input file: S718PC.J / S718PC.-J]
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2008-7-19 | pC |
We keep the same feature as yesterday, f17, which is still very soft when picked and fine in texture. f17 covers a line of 5 stones of >40 cm in dimension, which is f21: they are alligned in North eastern-South western direction: theese stones remindes me to the stones alligned in J2 in front of the second apron lJ2f15, lJ2f24, lJ2f27 at the elevation of 9170@ ca. and also f21 is at 9170@: i suppose f21 is the same as theese stones in J2. Probably at the end of Mittani, there was a level surface in front of the second apron and of the staircase, with theese stones associated to it. After removing f17 we changed feature in f18, which was more soft than f12 in k85. this feature is characterized by the presence of some melted brick pieces: after a pick run they exposed a brick melt surface, which is f22. The stones f21 are 10 cm higher than the brick surface f22 and are later in date.
[Input file: S719PC.J / S719PC.-J]
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2008-7-20 | pC |
Today we took views for the brick crumble surface f22 and the stones f21. I decided to stop excavating here because we needed to remove the Eastern baulk of k85 f30: this was removed and it was created a slope for the wheelbarrow. Then i moved the workmen in k65 in order to reach the same level of k75 and to see if there is also the same brick crumble.
[Input file: S720PC.J / S720PC.-J]
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2008-7-22 | pC |
I decided to move the workmen from k85 to k75, because there we decided for the moment to stop digging: we want to expose the same feature of k85 f37, being in k75 at the same level. We removed the brick melt f22 and after a pick run we found f39, which is present only in the Western part of the locus. It seems that f22 continues in the Eastern part. We took relays and we decided to clean all expose it and stop excavating. Today dH hQ cJC draw the North and the East section of k75
[Input file: S722PC.J / S722PC.-J]
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2008-7-23 | pC |
today we removed the North baulk f47 and the East baulk f44. For the east baulk was created a slope for the wheelbarrow. Today eA and dH drew the North section
[Input file: S723PC.J / S723PC.-J]
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2008-7-26 | pC |
today we cleaned the surface of k75 f42, since was exposed for few days.
[Input file: S725PC.J / S725PC.-J]
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2008-7-28 | pC |
Today we opened k75 because i get a new team of workmen: they excavated f61, which is an accumulation which covers a surface of melted bricks. We will look carfully tomorrow for the brick, but it seems to be the same as the brick in k85, which are at the same elevation
[Input file: S728PC.J / S728PC.-J]
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2008-7-29 | pC |
today we continued removing f68, which is a mixture of soil and brick melt, very similar to f60 in k85 and to f65 in k74. It abuts f71, which is the brickmelt. The brickmelt shows no clear shape of complete bricks or walls, therfore i decided to remove the first 10 cm with the big pick, clean and then remove other 5 cm with the small pick and trowel, making a flat surface: this allow us to see the face of the bricks and to see if there is mortar in between.
[Input file: S729PC.J / S729PC.-J]
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2008-7-30 | pC |
Today we removed only f68, which is a very hard accumulation, characterized by the presence of some brickmelt, some pebbles. Under f68 there is f80, a surface with bricks and small pebbles and some sherds lying flat. We took a view of all the square to see both features. We decided to leave f80 and remove 10 cm of the brickmelt f71: it is still brickmelt, hard when picked and comes out in big chunks; there are some stones and big pieces of bricks.
[Input file: S730PC.J / S730PC.-J]
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2008-7-30 | pC |
today we removed part of the brickmelt f64, which could be a structure, but melted out. It is very hard and compact, fine in texture and is characterized by the presence of some stones (>15 cm), pieces of bricks and tannur. We removed it with the small pick and trowel, but we still did not found any coherent structure. In k73, in the South-East corner there is part of a brick wall f76. This was exposed two years ago, as we excavated in J4 k73, but we left the wall because continued under the baulk and was the end of the excavation season. Now that we reached the same elevation in k74, we can suppose that this wall has its continuation to the South in k74 f64. Therefore today we stopped excavating in k74 and we cleaned the wall f76 and excavated to the East in k64.
[Input file: S730PC.J / S730PC.-J]
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2008-7-31 | pC |
today we excavated only f71 which covered f82: f71 was the brickmelt, very hard and consisting of an uniform surface of melted bricks; f82, instead is softer, with patches of soil and harder where there are bricks. Being full of brick, partly also complete, this is the beginning of the brickfall, same as f75 in k85
[Input file: S731PC.J / S731PC.-J]
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2008-8-2 | pC |
Today we removed the brickmelt f82, which is very hard: is still alternig to have softer patches to harder ones and alterns hard surfaces to softer ones, very similar to a brickfall; this is probably due to different periods of exposure to the water and sun, which melted the bricks and then dried it out. To the East there is a part which is different and harder than f82. this is f78, which has some small stones, pebbles and some bricks. I differentiated from the brickmelt, being this more an accumulation than brickmelt.
[Input file: S802PC.J / S802PC.-J]
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2008-8-3 | pC |
today we excavated the brickmelt f93, which is located under f82. It differentiate from f82 being more soft, but still full of brickmelt and pieces of bricks
[Input file: S803PC.J / S803PC.-J]
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2008-8-4 | pC |
Today i looked well in the East section and i saw a clear layer of ash under the brickmelt f82. therefore i decided to excavate with the small pick and to find where are the limits of the ash: it covers half of the square and it abuts f82. It is soft in consistence and dark black-brown in color. There were fragments of faience beads. We collected a carbon sample q164.3
[Input file: S804PC.J / S804PC.-J]
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2008-8-5 | pC |
Today we exposed all the ash f97, which is located under the brickfall f93. It is a soft powderly soil full of ash and some carbons. There are few sherds. It seems that it slopes toward West and possibly is the same ash as f90 in k85, being both located under the brickfall.
[Input file: S805PC.J / S805PC.-J]
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2008-8-6 | pC |
Today we partly exposed the glacis f109, which is located directly under the ash f97
[Input file: S806PC.J / S806PC.-J]
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2008-8-9 | pC |
today we removed the north baulk f111, which is brickfall
[Input file: S809PC.J / S809PC.-J]
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2009-9-1 | pC |
we decided to stop excavating in k75 at the level of the glacis f109 and to dig only in the western squares k84- k87
[Input file: SZ31PC.J / SZ31PC.-J]
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