Unit 21272

Category: Layer    dug in 2017

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: plaster and mak-up on platform 

Data Category Information: Location: feature; Description: pedestal/podium/plinth; Material: mix (dark grey&white); Deposition: composite (floors/bedding/plaster/packing/occupation)

Discussion: U21272, this unit consists of layers of plaster and make up, the plaster covered the floor surface of platform F3441 including its edges south and west. The southern façade of platform was decorated with red painting. This layer represent the first later plastering events of phase II. The make-up below of the plaster is very compact and contains charcoal and moderates plaster. The colors of this layer between light brown/orange and mid red. We can suppose the relationship between this floor and the modification of the central main space by plastering floor U19186, including central platform F7411 with the extension tow benches F3439= (F7429, F7435) to the south and wweast and F7410 to the north. In this level the platform become smaller than the earliest level in this phase, the northern bench was covered the painting side edge of the platform F3441 and adding the pillar F3429in the back of the bench against the eastern wall F5014, as the same way a narrow bench F7435 was built against the earliest bench F7429 with extension to the west. Finally white plaster floor U21254 was covering the surface and another white plaster layer belonging whole facing of the structures. We think at that level the painting facing eastern wall on the back of platform 7411 was added at this level. 

Consistency: compact 

Colour: on top white plaster, make up: light brown/orange and dark red to the E 

Texture: silty day/ sandy at bottom of the layer 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: moderate plaster5% & mudbrick frags10%, clay aggregates20%, charcoal 20% 

Post-depositional Features: truncated burials 

Basal Boundary: very sharp, constructional, smooth 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 21274 below: (Click to view the record) 19145 

Dry sieve volume: 15 

Total Deposit Volume: 39 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Finds Room Information:

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X Finds Material: nothing recorded  

Finds Material Stored: nothing recorded  

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