Daily Trench Journal

Area D

Trench 4

June 10, 2007

Today was the first day of actual excavation within D4 for this season. We initially cleared 2m as a cleaning locus in order to star the season in the Ubaid. The idea was that the roads that go through D6 would continue into D4 and produce more of the context that we have already found. The roads did continue as we thought, so for a more detailed account of EB / MB roads, see Trench D6. Under the roads, we did come across an EB building abutting the last road on the east side, with a burned up slump layer on the west. The wall itself was composed of green and red brick, and was approx 1 – 1.5m thick. The structure may also be associated with a similar structure at the same level in E2. See Bradley’s report for a more detailed account.

We initially divided the trench into three loci based on initial features we noticed. L4099 contained a white ephemeral organic surface about 1cm thick abutting a large rock and containing flat lying sherds. L4100 at first appeared to contain a structure, but it later disappeared. L4098 did not contain any noticeable features except for L4101. The locus was a pot containing ash and organic material. We excavated it as a pit and kept the contents for carbon sampling and floating.