Unit 3338

Category: layer    dug in 1998

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: wall plaster 

Data Category Information: In Situ: in situ; Location: wall/blocking; Material: plaster; Deposition: homogeneous

Dimensions: 0.59 x 0.03 x 0.42 m 

Discussion: (3338) represents a layer of plaster on the surface of wall [278]. It may once have covered the upper courses of this wall, but this was not evident on excavation. It also did not seem to extend beneath the extent that was excavated. There were fairly distinctive 'ribs' of plaster forming two parallel lines that ran horizontally across the wall surface (see sketch). These might have been unintended undulations on the wall surface, or the product of post-depositional factors. However, observations have been made of similar details on plaster elsewhere in the Mellaart area and it might have been an intentional wall feature. To the Eastern end the plaster curved slightly over the surface of N-S running wall [281] but ended here more definitely suggesting that this wall was not [plastered, although it seems to have been bonded to [278], but this is hard to prove. 

Recognition: A distinctive white, chalky consistency 

Definition: Separated from the wall by salt encrustations 

Execution: Trowel 

Condition: dry at the top but damper lower down 

Consistency: firm 

Colour: 2.5 Y 8/2 pale yellow 

Texture: chalky clay 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: occasional flecks of yello ochre/charcoal 

Post-depositional Features: salt encrustations 

Basal Boundary: a sharp / distinct / contructional basal boundary, marked by salt encrustations 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 3348 below: (Click to view the record) 3347 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 7 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): VII 

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  

Lab Team Data

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