| Entry: | The morning today was spent leveling and straightening a section alone the western edge of the trench in order to increase the safety of the trench's western side and also to provide a more visually pleasing facade for photographs and visitors. While this was something that needed be done, it had little archeological value, so I was glad in the afternoon when I began exploring the corner joint between the southern wall (f. 2426) and the Eastern wall (f. 2425). It so far appears that the walls are bonded together, thus built together, but that cannot be said for certain yet. The course I exposed seemed to show that the mud brick from the southern wall extending through the corner with a joint between it and the first brick of the eastern wall. However, this is not necessarily the case for every course of the wall. The relationship between this southern wall and the northern wall of building 105 was also very interesting. At their corners, they seemed to be touching each other, but after roughly .5-1 m going west along the wall the separated a bit and this gap was filled with mortar. It is unfortunately not yet clear if this gap between the buildings widens, closes, or merely continues as the top of the wall is heavily mixed together as it was exposed many years ago and has been used since as a walkway. Further removal of the wall (either my wall or b.105's wall) should help to clarify that. |
