| Entry: | The cleaning we started yesterday was finished before breakfast, pictures of the room 105 were taken and after that we were finally able to start excavating. The section we will be working on for the next weeks will cut through the wall of building 105 into the next building and will hopefully show us in which order the different features (walls, buttresses) were added to the construction. Our goal for today was to cut the upper buttress far enough to reveal one specific mudbrick and show its exact outlines.
It seems like a rather rewarding work, as we are hoping to get outcomes that are relevant for the history of the whole building and the working conditions are most certainly making our life much easier.
I had some trouble adapting to the work on the walls which have been exposed for a long time and now are very dry, crumling easily on any contact. We hoped to get a little further than we did in the end, but I think we set up a good base for moving on faster in the next days, because there were still many questions to be answered about various aspects of organization. As a student who has mostly been working in rather unimportant excavations in Europe up to now, the sheer number of findings is amazing to me. Many objects that would have been major discoveries on other excavations like obsidian flakes on painted ceramic sherds are very common here.
I felt more convinced today that the buttresse were there to sustain a second floor, just because of their strenght. I was standing on one of them for several hours and never felt on unsecure ground. |
