Building 46

Area: North 

Location: West of B.49 

Building 46 was poorly preserved; the structure was located very close to the surface of the mound and had been heavily eroded. These walls of Building 46 were constructed on top of the walls of Building 48, following the same plan. However the later walls were not directly above the earlier walls but were offset by about 40mm. The building was constructed directly over Building 48, with no evidence of an occupational hiatus between the buildings.

The walls of Building 46 were constructed in shallow foundation trenches. Beneath the western wall of the building a layer of grey ashy material (11108) was used as a levelling deposit. Building 46 was defined by mudbrick walls F.1800, F.1801 and F.1802. The northern wall of Building 46, was entirely eroded away, and the northern extent of the structure therefore could not be established. The mudbrick used in the construction of Building 46 consisted of light yellow brown silty clay. The mortar was light grey brown silty clay. The walls survived of only 2 or 3 courses of mudbrick and were up to 0.30m high. Building 46 is an eroded building whose northern wall has not been preserved as well as its features. Thus, the phasing of the building is unclear_ all features within the walls have been truncated or eroded away. The fill within the three walls that may be associated with its early building phase are 11100 and 11102 which are the same. The infill contained very few artifacts, it mostly consisted of rubble. (mortar, mudbrick, and plaster chunks) The walls of this building did not have a plastered surface. The walls consisted of badly preserved 2 to 3 courses of mud brick with mortar in between. The bricks were orangish light brown in color and had a texture of a silty clay loan. The mortar had a blocker structure with a colour of light greyish brown. The walls were removed to uncover building 48 which lay right underneath them. 

Number of Related Diary Entries: 2

Conservation Recorded: No

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