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| Area: North |
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| Dug in Year: 2013 |
| Feature Type: podium/pedestal |
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| Location: At the central western edge of platform 3695 |
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| Grid X: 1149 Grid Y: 1172.4 |
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When we removed the arbitrary layer u.20615 on top of PLT F.3695, the red paster layer u.20634 beneath it was impossible the reach in a small depression at the western edge of the platform. What we thought at first to be due to erosion since 2005, was in fact a very clear cut in the red layer.
It is not completely clear at what exact moment during the use of the platform the pilaster/pedestral was removed and the cut u.20941 filled up with the layer u.20674.
Although, this layer of fill is not a make-up layer of the type used in the platform. Also, it is burnt and it is thus older than the burning of building 52. The pilaster/pedestral was thus already removed when building 52 was set on fire.
Also, at least the upper layers of arbitrary layers u.20615 were covering it. It is thus reasonable to think that the pedestral/pilaster was removed and the cut filled either when layer u.20634 was cut for the burial f.7112 and covered by u.20615. Because the kerb f.3693 was covering a little bit the fill 20941, because it was not destroyed by the removal, and because this kerb was itself partially covered by layer u.20615, this proposition seems to be most accurate.
It was possible to interpret this cut in the platfrom as the print of a removed pilaster/pedestral by comparison with already known pilaster/pedestral in the site.The size and the emplacement fit with the type of pedestral used to hold, for instance, a pair of bull horns. Can this be the origin of the horns put next to the bucranium in the western part of space 94? |
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| In situ Conservation: No |
| Lifted: No |
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| Feature Relationships: |
| abutted by: (Click to view the record) 3693 |
| cuts: (Click to view the record) 3695 |
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| Number of Related Diary Entries: 1 |
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| Conservation Recorded: No |
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| | No. Of Units in this Feature: 2 (Click here to view unit list) |
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