J6f142

File: \MZ\A\J06\D\F\0142.HTM
Processed on 09-12-2010
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Labeling/Designation
Label is included in another 2009-2-12pC ^pit2 [Input file: U717PC2.J / U717PC2.-J]
Category 2008-8-16!! fill, dumping, collapse [Input file: S818PC.J / S818PC.-J]
2008-8-17!! build-up [Input file: S817CVP.J / S817CVP.-J]
Definition 2008-8-16pC fill [Input file: S818PC.J / S818PC.-J]
2008-8-17cVP accumulation B [Input file: S817CVP.J / S817CVP.-J]
Summary 2010-8-20pC f142 is the ashy fill of the elongated pit cut f122: is a brown soil composed by different horizontal layers with lot of bones, carbons, pottery. The north continuation of it was found in J4 (J4 f137) [Input file: SZ31PC.J / SZ31PC.-J]
Best image 2010-8-4 pC

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Description/Count
Description 2008-8-17cVP first discovered while digging up the glacis f132, in a elongated spot running NE-SW, along the pebble floor f140, at the beginning it seemed to cut f132 and f140. It is an ashy grey soft soil. We realyed the zone opened today, that was not very deep, some 15 cm, and at the bottom there was a brown soil. The filling today gives a sealing, a piece of inlaid and a small miniature vessel. [Input file: S817CVP.J / S817CVP.-J]
2008-8-19cVP the ashy spot is composed by a group of different layers running almost horizontally, but slightly sloping down from the NE corner, alternating lenses of ashes, grey soil and brown soil. It contains a big quantity of pottery sherds and animal bones. The pottery seems also to be Khabur and possibly h23. [Input file: S819PC.J / S819PC.-J]

Recovery/Assignment and the Record
Daily 2008-8-18cVP The spot of ashes detected yesterday in just a small area seems to be different layers of ashy accumulation that runs down pc f140, and also under the brown soil f141. It slopes down in the south and SW area, where we still have to remove the remains of f141. [Input file: S817CVP.J / S817CVP.-J]
Argument 2008-8-19cVP The fact that it is found in a round area, going down to the center, and resting and abuting the brown soil around, along with the quantity of discarded sherds and bones, make us consider the possibility that it was a kind of dump. [Input file: S819PC.J / S819PC.-J]
Procedure 2008-8-20cVP We excavate the rest of this feature, the ashy layers, that goes deeper in the centre of the shallow pit or dump. Reaching the bottom, we relay and photograph. [Input file: S820PC.J / S820PC.-J]

Volumetric localization
Locus 2008-8-16pC k84 [Input file: S818PC.J / S818PC.-J]
Relays 2008-8-17pC 295 (38883 51786 - 8971 / Relay location: NE point) [Input file: S820DH-R.J / S820DH-R.-J]
2008-8-17pC 296 (38917 51713 - 8953 / Relay location: NW point) [Input file: S820DH-R.J / S820DH-R.-J]
2008-8-17pC 297 (38830 51612 - 8938 / Relay location: SW point) [Input file: S820DH-R.J / S820DH-R.-J]
2008-8-17pC 298 (38788 51612 - 8939 / Relay location: S point) [Input file: S820DH-R.J / S820DH-R.-J]
2008-8-19dH 381 (38782 51652 - 8935) [Input file: S828CVPR.J / S828CVPR.-J]
2008-8-19dH 382 (38788 51410 - 8897 / Relay location: point) [Input file: S828CVPR.J / S828CVPR.-J]
2008-8-19dH 383 (38715 51327 - 8897 / Relay location: point) [Input file: S828CVPR.J / S828CVPR.-J]
2008-8-19dH 384 (38728 51251 - 8896 / Relay location: point) [Input file: S828CVPR.J / S828CVPR.-J]
2008-8-19dH 385 (38628 51239 - 8901 / Relay location: point) [Input file: S828CVPR.J / S828CVPR.-J]
2008-8-19dH 386 (38573 51326 - 8939 / Relay location: point) [Input file: S828CVPR.J / S828CVPR.-J]
Elevation 2008-8-16pC 8913 @bottom [Input file: S818PC.J / S818PC.-J]
2008-8-16pC 8940 @top [Input file: S818PC.J / S818PC.-J]

Contact association
Type of contact: Latest events 2008-8-18cVP f132 (glacis) overlays f142 [Input file: S817CVP.J / S817CVP.-J]
2008-8-17cVP f140 (pavement C) overlays f142 [Input file: S817CVP.J / S817CVP.-J]
2008-8-17cVP f141 (accumulation A) overlays f142 [Input file: S817CVP.J / S817CVP.-J]
Type of contact: Contemporary events/Movable items 2008-8-7cJC i11 (jar) sits in f142 [Input file: S818PC.J / S818PC.-J]
2008-8-7cJC i12 (sealing) sits in f142 [Input file: S818PC.J / S818PC.-J]
2008-8-18eA q231 sits in f142 [Input file: S818PC.J / S818PC.-J]
2008-8-19pC q249 sits in f142 [Input file: S826PC.J / S826PC.-J]
2008-8-19eA q252 sits in f142 [Input file: S831HQ.J / S831HQ.-J]
2008-8-19eA q253 sits in f142 [Input file: S831HQ.J / S831HQ.-J]
2008-8-20eA q255 sits in f142 [Input file: S831HQ.J / S831HQ.-J]
Type of contact: Earliest events 2008-8-20cVP f142 overlays f151 (accumulation B) [Input file: S820PC.J / S820PC.-J]
2008-9-2pC f142 sits in f122 (cut) [Input file: S902PC.J / S902PC.-J]
2008-8-19cVP f142 abuts f150 (accumulation D) [Input file: S819PC.J / S819PC.-J]
Inclusions 09-12-2010 !! frequencies of ceramic vessels and sherds included within feature

Time sequencing
Stratum to which element belongs 2010-7-29pC s18dJ6A [Input file: U815PC.J / U815PC.-J]
Phase to which stratum belongs 2010-7-29pC h7dJ6A [Input file: U815PC.J / U815PC.-J]
Stratigraphic reasons 2008-9-21pC is located under ^glaci s2 and cuts f151, which is early mittani [Input file: S921PC.J / S921PC.-J]
Typological reasons 2008-8-18mKB most sherds are Phase h23 but one may be Phase h35 [Input file: S825MKB.J / S825MKB.-J]
2008-8-20mKB date determined by looking at shapes and decoration only; pottery q lots will receive a full analysis at a later time. Mittani based on preliminary examination of shapes and decoration [Input file: S820MKB.J / S820MKB.-J]

Descriptive
Color definition 2008-8-16pC grey [Input file: S818PC.J / S818PC.-J]
Color number 2008-8-16pC 5YR 5/1 [Input file: S818PC.J / S818PC.-J]
Hardness 2008-8-16pC soft [Input file: S818PC.J / S818PC.-J]

Analogical record
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Reference to Plot 2008-9-6pC p0005 [Input file: SX22PC.J / SX22PC.-J]