June 7, 2007

Area D

Trench 6

Jason Kennedy and Barish Uzel

Today we began by removing the street locus 113, in an attempt to define the depth of the wall in Locus 112. After determining that Locus 112 was only one course of stones, probably representing a foundation wall, we removed the stones from the rock wall. We attempted to remove Locus 112, however the workmen removed both Locus 112 and Locus 115 at the same time. This resulted in a mixing of the artifacts and the labeling of all artifacts from both Loci of undetermined contexts being placed in Locus 115. The problem is that Locus 115 probably represents a largely sterile fill locus behind wall Locus 112. We then began to level Locus 114, coming down upon a concentration of Ubaid ceramics and artifacts (bone awls KT5 and KT6) in the northwest corner of the trench. Upon bringing the Locus down to the level of the street (Locus 113) we cleaned the trench and noticed a possible mudbrick wall emerging in the western baulk and some plaster lines that could indicate some Ubaid architecture beginning to emerge in the Northwest portion of the trench.