Space Number:  561

Area: GDN  

Within Building Number: 142 

Phasing:
Mellaart Level: Unassigned at present 

Hodder Level: TP.M 

 

Description:
Sp.561 was located to the south of the annex and the main room of B.81, it was not recorded by James Mellaart in 1960s.

This space was connected through carefully modelled wall openings with not only Sp.555 (B.81) but also Sp.537 (B.142). Sp.561 clearly extended beyond the limits of excavation. We managed to expose an L-shaped area of about 14 m2 that was delimitated, from the north and west by simple and plastered walls (F.7692-7694 & F.7696). In the north-west part, these walls were set on bare compound foundations (F.3090 & F.3091) reminiscent of structures documented and excavated in TP Area. This architectural and structural configuration seemed to be built onto the main building block of B.81 as a part of an extension.

The most elaborate architectural feature of Sp.561 was a plastered platform with a low and narrow bench at its southern edge (F.8063). It was situated within a north-west recess alongside the northern wall with a wall opening (F.7694). This break, about 0.6 m wide, was almost identical to the wall opening in the southern wall of Sp.555. It was blocked with a bucranium (22894), however, most probably a double one.

There were some stone tools and phytolith concentrations found directly on the platform surface. But most importantly a collection of about 200 astragals together with other worked stones and many diagnostic pottery sherds were deposited within the room-fill (22811) that sealed the entire Sp.551. 

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

Conservation Recorded: No

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