| Entry: | Today I went on digging unit 15152 in space 341. The walls 5055 and 5056 are very disturbed by animal burrows, what makes the search for the earlier phases of the wall slightly more difficult. In the South - East - corner, where a mudbrick is looking into room (thats what I thought yesterday), I found today that this mudbrick is a) disturbed by an animal burrow, so I can`t get the situation in the corner of the wall 5056 and buttress 5057, and b) there is also a disturbance at the "rear" part of the mudbrick, so I actually can`t say whether it is connecting to the wall 5056 or not. By now I don`t think that this is the case, but it`s rather a guess. But I think it would be quite unprobable when building a new phase of the wall, only one mudbrick should be in disorder with the earlier phase. In my opinion it is much more probable that this mudbrick is also just garbage or collapsed.
The dark rectangular spot at the buttress 5054 turned out to be just a thin lense ( around 4 cm thick). Under it was very compact soil located. The momentary planum shows at roughly the same part another dark burned lense, rectangular, but S-N orientated (in contrast to the one before, being E-W orientated) but maybe it`s just another thin lense. We`ll see. Right beside this dark spot, there turned up some more red painted plaster, neither connecting to the planum nor to the wall, but being located in between the planum and the S-E-corner of butress 5054. In the NE-corner of the unit turned up some more chunks of red on yellowish - white painted plaster. One of those chunks stucks almost vertically in the ground, so I´m not sure wether this plaster really can indicate a surface. Interesting to is also that quite a lot of bigger pottery sherds are stucking vertically in the ground. But in general finds are quite rare in this layer of roomfill. |
