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July 18, 2001

The day was spent trying to understand the relations between the various features in the N part of the trench, as the southern is relatively clear--Floor (L5027) covering most of the area bordered by walls on the W and N (L5008 and L5031), and two pits (L5029 and L5024) which I think area sealed by the floor. Thankfully, things did become more clear today.

The area in the center, formerly under the stone feature (L5025) has come down on a surface with flat-lying sherds and scattered pebbles and bones. This area (not yet designated, the fill immediately above was L5034) abuts the single course mudbrick wall L5018 on the S and seems to W all the way to the baulk, though abutting a solid mudbrick portion of L5019 in the far NW, that I surmise is a wall. I think there may be a corner as the orientation is similar to that in the southern portion of the trench, but if there is it is lost in the baulk. As we took the whole locus off as a layer to the S, we came upon a burnt area, with abutting (?) mudbrick on the E, which possibly connects to L5018 and/or L5031. Either way, it seems associated with the surface, which, in conjunction with L5018 may form a corner to the area. Unfortunately for C-14 sampling, there is a termite nest right in the middle of the ashy area, so any samples from there have a high probability of being contaminated.

The raised area of L5028 (which is immediately S of L5018) became a bit more clear. It was covered with mudbrick collapse, which we removed today, and it came off with a flat bottom surface on a layer of good mudbricks (okay, so maybe it was originally good mudbrick not collapse, but hey, it was in terrible shape and now we have a good surface, okay?). I'm still trying to figure out their orientation, though, at the moment it appears they may have actually form a curve that goes from S to NE, possibly abutting the surface area. A question still remains whether the surface level is contemporary with in the S end of the trench and the surface which over L5033 (just north of the old baulk and in the far east). If the wall is indeed curved and associated with the surface, it may not be contemporary with the oven, or if they are they are in separate rooms.

Finally, wall L5008 was finally finished being cleaned today and is a nice, clear wall abutting surface L5027. Hopefully once we the N side a bit more cleared up, we can spider-photo plan the whole thing.

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Date 2001-07-18
Year 2001
Has note The purpose of the daily journal was to record the activities taking place in a trench each day. This included which loci were excavated, how and why loci were excavated and the ongoing impressions of the relationships among loci. It should be noted that journals record the actions, impressions and ideas of trench supervisors during the excavations. They are not, therefore, the final interpretations or syntheses of the emerging data.
Dayplan-D-5-2001-07-18-A
Suggested Citation

Greer Rabiega, Sibel Torpil, Eleanor Moseman, Greer Rabicca. (2012) "D-5-2001-07-18 from Asia/Turkey/Kenan Tepe/Area D/Trench 5/Locus 5008". In Kenan Tepe. Bradley Parker, Peter Cobb (Ed). Released: 2012-03-28. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/documents/69765641-7159-42d1-ac5a-900a8c9f9612> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k2nk3bn05

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