| Entry: | Team: all except Ezra plus Jonathan and Catriona, Sevgi, Leila, Nesime, Zeliha, Vildan, Arsuman Hanim and Zafer from the Selcuk team joining
Weather: still hotter than yesterday
Gulgun and Hanfe managed to draw the grave lining in grave 2404 (13757) today and dug the fill (13758) dwon to a layer of yellowish mudbrick chucked into the grave.
Scott lifted skeleton 13746 out of 2403 and Duygu got the second part of 13743 x6 (with the dragon(sehorse head) out of the fill: seems to be some handicraft device. Next to it was a bone pin x7. Looing forward to see them cleaned and glued. While cleaning the fill 13743, we retrieved the four coffin nails, of which x9 proved to be attached to pieces of the coffin still preserved. Duygu hardened the stuff after a photo, so I can look for more coffin remains and draw them on Sunday.
Nejat and Sedef started to dig out the (hopefully no grave again!) moleholes E of 2404 as unit 13728.
Jonathan and Catriona document their work.
Ingmar cotinued drawing the E extension of trench 5, while Mustafa and Serkan cleaned in its northern part. Work on 13735 slows dwn considerably due to the disapponiing animal burrow interpretation.
In trench 6, Christoph is doing a great job in coordinating digging and documentation activity, and the Selcuk team proves very useful: Leila and Sevgi dug down between the presumable grave lining 13812. Before that, I checked if I can find any pit etc. cutting the structure tworads the W, as there are stones missing, with no success, however. The entire surrounding soils seem sto be a big disturbed mess. Under some dislodged bones (a pelvis), a skeleton appeared.
Nesime drew and took off the stones 13837 - there seems to be no grave, fortunately.
While cleaning around 13813, Nesime and Zeliha clarified the size and N outline of the pit I had seen close S of the stones two days ago, thus corroborating my and Ingmar's view that it is a wall stub. Pit 13821 spooned out by Nick along a section today could be the reason for its truncation towards the N. Its outline there still awaits final judgement. The wall itself has at least three courses of stones, a foundation trench is not visible.
The grave inside mudbrick lining 13806, which seems to be gnawed by a pit in its S, was excavated down to a yellow mudbickish layer under which the skull became visible. We stopped here in order to avoid exposition of the bones while we are away for Friday and Saturday (various excursions). The same applies to the grave at the S profile.
Naiose's sounding 13734 proved be quite useful: at the S bottom, two fallen mudbrick slabs appear to be part of a mudbrick tumble that it also visible in the profile. In the center, two stones running roughly parallel, and yet another ca. EW row of mudbricks roughly parallel under the N profile of the whole trench. While Peter and Jonathan claim this mudbrick is EC, Catriona and I favour that it is late - it seems very similar to the one we got in grave 2403. The space between the fallen slabs and the row, however, seems way to wide for a grave. The profile the sounding created proved very useful to understand the hard stuff 13823 as indeed a pit fill and will be drawn by Naiose on Sunday. Her sketches on the unit sheets are really, really good, by the way.
Tom exposed half a square meter of what appears to be a floor. We all hope it is indeed EC.
Nice to have a party without a motto for fancy dress tonight, so I can wear my new dress.Entered By: ER |
