| Entry: | Last diary entry, ever!
Excavating building 52 has been an interesting process. Since we’re basically thrown in to a building as we get here at the beginning of the season, I have come to know the building slowly as the season progressed. From confusion to clarity and back again, I have wandered through the season with a hope to finally get an idea of the life and death of the building phases we have gone through.
I have since long realized that what you think to be right in the beginning of the interpretation process usually proves to be wrong at the end. Or at least different. And my god, this building really took a turn to something different a couple a weeks ago.
We were looking at the space 480 that came up underneath infill U22221. As we were doing so (perhaps I should mention that Hercule Poirot, aka Arek Klimowicz, held a leading role in this story), “we” realized (after a long session of posing questions) that the wall F2183 actually was bounded to the walls creating space 90, as well as with the outer walls of the western part of the building. This changed everything for us, in the way we viewed the building and new questions arose on how the building had been built and functioned through its life cycle. Amazingly frustrating at the time, in the heat. When we thought we had everything under control, that was when everything changed dramatically.
In the end it was fine. We came to accept the new interpretations and welcomed them as very positive additions. We have a good relationship now, the house and I, and I leave it behind feeling confident, confident that everything will change during excavation next year and several times again later in post-excavation!
Live long and prosper! |
