| Entry: | So, my turn to write the diary. Yesterday we started a new layer (U. 17263), more compact, more heterogeneous than the last one. There is lots of lumps of mud bricks, plaster, black or yellow patches. The surface is not always clear, especially in the South-West corner, where we found plaster around bricks, but it doesn’t seem to belong to architecture. It abuts the buttress F. 5062, but the line of plaster around those mud bricks is really not coherent. There are also mud bricks in plaster at the bottom of the actual profile, which cut the room in two pieces. We left them in place to see if it continues deeper.
The whole surface is made of different kind of material that collapsed from the walls and the roof, so we have mud bricks, plaster lumps (sometimes red painted), and lots of different patches:
=> orange-yellow
=> brown
=> black : it looks the same as the big round black patch FKJ excavated yesterday around F. 3353, a loose texture with little white inclusions, between 1 and more than 5 cm deep. It could be organic remains, maybe large pieces of wood (from the roof?). We noticed two concentrations of pottery, the first in the middle of this part of the room (behind F. 5061), and the second at the Northwest corner. As for the Northeast corner we found large pieces of burnt plaster, with maybe pieces of interior wall face plaster, and a concentration of clay balls.
So, we are still in the room fill, with lots of pieces of collapsed material, lots of artefacts thrown away, with lots of pottery sherds in a vertical position (so thrown away with other fill). |
