Entry by CA:
East bench protruding from central east pillar. The bench was exposed during Mellarts excavation and was subsequently greatly weathered. The benche's northern edge blends into the central east platform and the southern edge is almost level with the floor. The western edge of the bench is c.8cm high.
Where the bench joins the central east pillar there is a rectangular break in the plaster along the surface. It is likely there was a plinth perhaps displaying a buchronia as in building 80, space 135.
Update, 01/08/2011, AM:
This feature is a bench extending from the eastern wall (f4088) of building 97, space 365, from a visible scar in the wall. Excavating this feature revealed mud-bricks and plaster mortar on the east end of this bench, constituting an addition to its original, more level structure-- although it should be noted that even at the earliest plastering, a small, 2 cm tall step is present at the eastern end. The plaster mortar, furthermore, was at one point shaped to provide support for a round mud-brick pillar, around which the rectangular addition was built.
The northern face of the bench and the top face, toward the eastern end, show in-situ red-painted plaster, suggesting that this bench was partially or completely painted red at one phase in its use-life. |
