| Entry: | Amazing day in Trench 5…little bit more and we will start to sing Trench Town Rock by Bob Marley. I continued to work in the south-western corner of building 98 and interesting information appeared. We still dig, and as the digging is progressing a necessity for new unit numbers appears (18358-fill between walls of b.98 and b.107; 18363-gap fill between walls of b.98 and b.106; 18362 – uncontaminated brick of f.5055). Despite the yesterdays interest and work on three plaster layers on south wall we concentrated on the western wall (f.2413) which apparently provided excellent new insight into the walls construction. Firstly, the interface between the western wall and the eastern wall of building 107 appeared, as well as the tiny fill gap in between (u.18358). On the middle of this interface, between these walls a bone tool is found which was present in the part of the western wall mudbrick, interface gap and eastern wall of building 107! Such unusual find requires further discussion and interpretation. Beside this interface in the upper level of western wall also a cracking gap behind the western buttress occurred which gave information of separate buttress building (at least in its final stage) after wall rising.
The situation bellow two black mortar levels was also quite amazing. Finally we defined the walls disposition on the south-western corner of b.98. The frontal interface of southern wall (f.5056) was clearly visible after removal of western wall in the corner. The southern wall is the one who reaches up to the eastern wall (f.2425) of b.107, and the western wall of b.98 is not connected with the north wall of b.106. The interface gap between f.2408 and f.5056 appears and tomorrow will be resolved. At the most southern bottom of the western wall of b.98 finally a clear indication of wall foundation appeared. The compact clayish bottom fill is the most lower wall level and confirms that the floor do not continues bellow the wall. Tomorrow goal is to define if there is any connection between this compact fill and building floor.
The work on figurines will continue later today. Yesterday I grouped them into human, animal, abstract and non-diagnostic figurines in order easier to understand each of these groups. It is noteworthy that many of these figurines strongly resemble East Mound (EM) corporeal principles, thus question of their origin is raised. Were they continuation of EM tradition or they were brought to WM during providing mudbrick material for buildings. Considering the functional impracticality of inclusions within mudbricks (pottery, bones, obsidian tools, figurines) it is still questionable whether WM communities were intentionally or occasionally inserting such objects. Considering today WM figural finds it should be asserted that EUR found almost complete animal figurine in his building and I found human like clay object (similar to wider labrises in the Balkans) inside western wall of b.98.
And yes, today we got present by Banu, an excellently made oriental darbuka!!! The music on Catalhoyuk will rumble through Konya Plain. Ishallah… |
