Unit 2516
Category: layer dug in 1997
Area: North
Interpretive Categories: Wall plaster
Data Category Information: In Situ: in situ; Location: wall/blocking; Material: plaster; Deposition: layered (wall plaster); Basal Spit: painted
Dimensions: 1.04 x 0.30 x 0.02 m
Description: Wall painting /multiple plastering
Discussion: Brief description of painted plaster layers;
1st) orange- salmon paint which appears to have been all over face of wall (F.3)- no edges /patterns visible.
2nd) c. 6-70 layers of white plaster below paint (1). This is a light orange -pink colour, appears to consist of thin lines (c. 5 mm wide) painted in geometric designs, part of this layer planned (97/409).
The layers of plaster, painted and not, are extremely difficult to separate and to phase. During cleaning they fragment easily, so that planning during cleaning is essential, and photographs are unlikely to show a complete version. The painting s as I inherited them had multiple layers visible. I am counting Kate's kilim/ladder pattern as my Layer (1). She, however, has recorded a higher level of orange/pink paint without patterns, later plan is 97/409. My plan 97/429 also includes the kilim/ladder, but distinguishes associated paint from background layers rather differently, there seems to be a large area of orange-red paint to the north of the pattern, but actual lines are rare- one to the N, one above the ladder design.
Layer (2): I've decided the ladder design is separate from the black/red design, and maybe a bright red and grey pattern at N end is part of the same layer ( see amended sketch).
Layer (3): Geometric design consisting of dark red triangles and a linear meandering design in black. The background is white. Originally part of this was planned as layer 2 (97/430), the dark red as layer 3 (97/431) and the main black design at 1:2 (97/432). This was because damage made it impossible to be sure what constituted a single level and also fragments kept falling off =, so plans were made during work of separate areas. Now- on 23/9/97- I have overlain these plans and found they join with no overlaps and are coherent, I have also added a piece from the N end (put on 97/431 because there was space, for no other reason) which is the same red and probably belongs- right place in the sequence. Fragile traces of black lines and red blocks found at top of S end- not planable.
(The lower part of the wall was not planned- traces of black and red paint found on at least 3 layers- see cont. p. 2.)
Layer (4): A thick layer of rendering c. 2-3 mm thick layer between 3 and 4. Layer 4 is broad panels of red paint on a white ground forming narrower white panels. The red is pale and has heavy salting on it. The red and white panels were the last definable paintings. Below this there seem to have been 5 layers of plaster, mainly white, but with traces of red and black paint on 2nd and 3rd, not cleaning/planable, very thin and fragile. There may have been 6 layers, not 5- the adherence on unpainted plaster is very good, making it difficult to clean, it also lacks the extra thickness of a layer of paint.
So, the painting seem to occur in the early and middle stages of the building's life. I don't know how many layers eroded off the latest one found, or how many Kate cleaned off in the initial cleaning onto her uppermost painted layer. * Schematic section overleaf.
Rendering below the first plaster layer was 8-9 mm thick.
Pages 3 and 4 plus changes to page 2, written 23/09/97. Original field notes should be kept. Plans have not been altered, but new composites have been compiled.
Execution: dental pick, brush and leaf
Condition: cool, covered
Consistency: moderately strong
Colour: varied - red hues required for paint don't occur in our Munsell.
Texture: clay
Bedding: Layered
Inclusions: red, black, grey, orange, pinky paint.
Post-depositional Features: many rootholes, cracks, water damage, close to surface exposed for 2 seasons or more
Basal Boundary: anthropogenic, clear where it joins wall, difficult to separate layers of unpainted plaster/rendering.
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 0
Total Deposit Volume: 6
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 5
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: This unit all went to flotation. The Sample 5 >4mm flotation, sorted 100%, yielded only a single piece of microfauna (nice and fresh), pulled for analysis. Sample 4 >4mm flotation, 100% sorted, recorded completely, produces a whopping two little scraps, rather rolled. Such a sparse unit would resemble platform or oven floors. Last number = 1Figurine 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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