| Entry: | A new week after an excellent Friday in Konya. We started taking out the floors cleared the previous week. The aim here is to relate the patches of clay plaster in the centre of the trench with the floors which we had previously uncovered in its western part. The stratigraphy is not of much help here, as we are still near the surface and everything is very disturbed. We are digging through the same blocky brownish mixed fill that covers most of the trench. Digging the area made things more complicated, as immediately below we came across a new floor. This looks, however, much more substantial and covers almost continuously the area excavated by 1731 with a noticeable slope towards the West. To the North it extends up to a buttress, or low wall, which has been uncovered last week and runs vertical to Wall 102, although a gap of ca 10 cm separates the two. All indications point to the relation of the floor with the lower floor adjacent to the hearth, but no secure connection can be made yet.
On the Northern half of the trench, (i.e. from Y 960.60 to Y 965.60) the work finished with identifying the North wall of Building 10. It forms an unusual recession at its Eastern side, making Building 10 wider at this part. Some stratigraphic observations for this area: Wall 105 -as well as part of Wall 102 were covered by a very badly preserved plastered floor, which was founded on a reddish brown layer. Both features overlay the walls, so they should represent the last episode of habitation in the area. No walls related to it were found.Entered By: Kostas Kotsakis |
