Unit 2172
Category: layer dug in 1997
Area: North
Interpretive Categories: Wall sculpture
Data Category Information: In Situ: in situ; Location: feature; Description: moulding; Material: brick; Deposition: heterogeneous
Dimensions: 1.2 x 0.5 m
Description: Description partially split into mudbrick cone and plaster
Discussion: Mudbrick and plaster relief sculpture on the east face of wall F.3, greatly truncated, probably during the digging of pit F.17. Moulding is near impossible recognition to the original form. However it was framed by a panel and was clearly a large piece of 'art' facing into space 71. Moreover the relief appears to begin from just below floor level, although all the respective floors have been cut away by pit F.17. If the floor did not 'sink 'here then it seems as if the sculpture was designed to 'rise up' out of the floor- perhaps to suggest some connection to the building below or to give the impression of antiquity to the building by suggesting the floors had been replastered and reused more than they actually had. Also the idea of walls as 'membrane' might be applied to floors. Alternatively wall F.3 has clearly subsided somewhat and maybe this is all that has happened and the relief was actually at or above floor level.
Execution: Trowel.
Condition: Cool and dry.
Consistency: Mudbrick cone: moderately strong. Plaster: very firm.
Colour: Mudbrick cone: 10 YR 5/4 yellowish brown. Plaster: 10 YR 8/2 very pale brown.
Texture: Mudbrick c: silty loam. Plaster: silty clay loam.
Bedding: Compound layered.
Inclusions: Mudbrick cone: clay fragments 2 %, phytoliths 1 %. Plaster: phytoliths 5 %.
Post-depositional Features: Roots/salts 2 - 5 %.
Basal Boundary: Sharp, distinct and vertical.
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 0
Total Deposit Volume: 0
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 4
Number of Related Diary Entries: 0
Settlement Phase:
Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present
Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present
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Finds Room Information:
All material from site passes through the finds room for washing and separating before it is passed onto the various lab teams. The finds room keeps a basic inventory of what is found. A finds material type list is given here. Further analytical detail maybe provided by the Lab Team data below.
X Finds Material: nothing recorded
Finds Material Stored: nothing recorded
Lab Team Data
Please note the list below does not represent everything that might have been found in this Unit, but represents the datasets we have available on-line. Please ArchaeoBots Sample Recorded: No Ceramic Records: No Clay Object Records: No Chipped Stone Records: No Conservation Recorded: No Faunal Records: Yes
Count of records:: 1
Unit description: F1 is a bone point fragment (modern break). Last number = 1 2002: Turns out to be the tip of 1334.X14, but separate numbering maintained because that one went to the museum.Figurine Records: No GroundStone Records: No Heavy Residue Records: No Microfaunal Records: No
Sorry not all of this data is available online at present, please contact us if you are particularly interested microfauna recordsPhytolith Sample: No
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