| Entry: | Spent today exposing the plaster in the NE corner of space 450, around buttress F.3326. Originally I thought I perceived mudbrick and a niche with roomfill, designating two units – U.15182 and U.15183 respectively. I thought the niche contained vessel X11 from U.15177. After lifting the vessel and going further into the section, I could no longer see a believable niche. The bricks of U.15182 seem to run all the way N-S in the profile, immediately in front of the plaster of the wall and the buttress. A layer of roomfill emerged underneath the mudbricks in section. A similar situation was observed around the buttress F.3326. The mudbricks and the plasterline are colinear and immediately adjacent. (see working shots and sketch on Unit sheet)
I also lifted cluster X18 of U.15177 under buttress F.3326, and supervised Ismail lifting cluster X21 underneath buttress F.5057 in the south end of space 450. It consisted of 2 vessels, and some bones sandwiched between the sherds bagged separately). All of these clusters seem to lie at the border under the buttresses. I would say they are from an earlier phase of roomfill, but they seem too intact. If someone built buttresses over the older roomfill, would that roomfill not be more compact and the vessels – more fragmented? Interestingly, all three clusters (X11, X18, X21) are under the corners of buttresses. |
