Daily Log

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Thursday, 25 July, Morning

We clean down additional areas of the tile concentration in N 90-92 for photographs emphasizing a fragment of incised cut-out akroterion protruding up in m 90.  As is usual in such concentrations in this area of T26, there is also a fair amount of plaster, often large pieces with reed impressions, or rocks, and rocks, and of pithos fragments, as well as a modest amount of pottery.  Removing in M-N 90 we recover 2 cassette of tile and ca. .25 of plaster; also over a latte box of pottery and several pithos fragments.  Cleaning to "floor level" in O-R 92 we encounter a column base, which is badly worn - not surprising given its proximity, ca. 10 cm to the surface.  This yields no pottery and very little tile and plaster.  We also cut back the baulk across K 88-90 in preparation for a section.  From near the floor level at the very bottom, ca. __cm, come many large chunks of an unusual slab (no. 33); tile1, plaster 1.  The removal and tabulation of tile fragments is completed.  From this material a number of pieces are saved: fragments with incised letters or signs nos. 1-16; fragments with finger marks, nos. 17-22; other anomalous fragments, nos. 23-24; a lateral sima jaw, no. 25; and some fragments of covertile, nos. 26-30.

From the cutting back in K 88-90 comes a latte box of pottery.

We save some large pieces of plaster and large portion of a covertile from M-N 90.

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17

19850145

19850145

• Find 1
• N 90-92
• no depth
• fragment of pantile with incised letter (gamma or lambda)
  • drawing
  • photo

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19

20

21

19850173

19850173

• Find 10
• N 90-92
• no depth
• Fragment of incised pantile
  • drawing
  • photo

22

23

24

25

19850141

19850141

• Find 22
• N 90-92
• no depth
• fragment of covertile with fingermark
  • drawing
  • photo

26

27

19850100

19850100

• Find 25
• M-N 89-90, O-R 85-90
• no depth
• fragment of lateral sima "jaw" of spout
  • drawing
  • photo

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29

19850165

19850165

• Find 27
• N 90-92
• no depth
• fragment of covertile with "tongue" for insertion
  • drawing
  • photo

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31

19850078

19850078

• Find 31
• N 90-92
• no depth
• fragment of incised akroterion (fragment joins 19850049 , see for complete description)
  • drawing
  • photo