Kenantepe 2005        Page 1

Trench: D.10

Date: June 07, 2005

Today, we cleaned the pit L.4 and L.5. The bottom of L.4 was at 587.22m, and the

L.5’s was at 587.16m. A "flint scraped bowl" was immediately beneath the pit L.5, implying that the possible Ubaid layers are reached and this pit was dug into a Ubaid layer. The soil under those pit is orange-buff color and crumbly.

The burned mud-brick pile in the mid-west part of the trench was partially removed to see what exactly this pile should mean to us. The bricks rarely have complete size and their size varies. The soil in between them seems to represent fill accumulated in time indicating that the bricks were randomly piled or dumped. No artifacts were detected in relation with this feature. It is clear that this pile continues further down, which will be checked tomorrow.

Although it is not certain yet, we may have found the south face of the wall that is the south wall L.77 in D.8. A plaster line visible throughout the north section might be indicative of the interior of the wall. If this is the case, then the N of this trench may contain a room next to D.8. In addition, there is non-substantially preserved plaster line going in N-S direction in the NE of the trench. This line also confirms that there is a wall in the E of the trench drawing the Eastern boundary for the possible room and the plaster might be the interior face of the E wall of this room.

Work today has shown that there is another pit located to the immediate E of L.4. This pit partially damaged the E of Pit L.4 and it is much larger than the other ones in the trench. Its bottom reached at 587.27 meter.