| Entry: | Today I went on excavating room fill 31199. Among the nice finds were three small articulated bones, possibly for dating, a groundstone with pigments, a pottery lid and something that might be remnants of a pot-stand with orange earth in it. I progressed in the east quarter of the surface, trying to get the walls rid of the fill in front of it. Indeed what we thought might be wall plaster of the eroded south wall is a plaster on top of the fill 31199, so it might be the same as the floor 16932, though the connection wasn’t preserved. We will go on scraping and clearing walls tomorrow. Regarding the room fill, I spotted in the section a very weird line of yellowish earth, which might be a plaster. I tried to follow it up to the west, but it was quite unsuccessful since it seems to be damaged through animal burrows and probably the use of the pick in the previous days, also the yellow earth is very humid and has the same loose consistency as the room fill soil. We will see tomorrow how it goes. Today DSE was also working with me in this part of the building, trying to clear the relationships between the walls and the buttresses. It seems there is a plaster layer surrounding the western buttress, leaving possibly a small passage between it and the east wall. I fill remove the fill in this corner tommorrow to try and see if this is a mudbrick wall that we see in between, |
