Unit 19078

Category: Layer    dug in 2010

 

Area: North 

 

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Interpretive Categories: Red hand painting 

 

Data Category Information: In Situ: in situ; Location: building; Material: plaster; Deposition: heterogeneous; Basal Spit: painted

 

Dimensions: 0.165m x 0.12m 

 

Description: red hand paintings 

 

Discussion: The two hands at the top of the wall might consist of two different activities/events of painting, because there are small specks of lighter red paint. Both hands have an area around the little finger that seems either disturbed or painted in a lighter red, and a circular pattern on each palm.
The hands have been consolidated, and the excavation will probably be continued next year. The condition of the red paint was very 'powderish', and it already began fading the day after it was exposed.
The hand at the west side has been truncated by an animal burrow, which has caused the destruction of the little finger.

During the 2011 season the rest of the wall plaster at that level was exposed revealing 9 more painted hands on the North wall. In the 2012 seaons an additional 3 were found on the East wall. There are a total of 13 handprints. In the 2013 season the hand to the left of there the initial two were taken was removed for conservation. The hand print just to the west of that one, had badly deteriorated and was also removed, but is a partial print. 17 August 2013 AML

The final two hands from the North wall F.3094 were removed in the 2014 season. 09/07/2014 AML 

 

Recognition: wall plaster 

Definition: clear 

Execution: scalpel 

Condition: hot and dry 

Consistency:  

Colour: white and red 

Texture: plaster 

Bedding: layered 

Inclusions: none 

Post-depositional Features: animal and insect burrows 

Basal Boundary:  

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): below: (Click to view the record) 19085 

 

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 

Related Photos: 16 (Opens as a group in a new window)

Buildings: (Click to view the record) 77

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 336

Features:: (Click to view the record) 8147 (wall feature)

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 contact us to obtain more information about this Unit.

ArchaeoBots Sample Recorded: No

Ceramics Data for 2010 still to be released

Clay Object Records: No

Chipped Stone Records: No

Conservation Recorded: No

Faunal Records: No

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 records

Phytolith Sample: No Sorry not all of this data is available online at present, please contact us if you are particularly interested phytolith samples

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