Daily Trench Journal

Area D

Trench 4

June 20, 2007

We continued excavating L4113 and L4112 as separate loci. We originally thought that a wall was emerging in the north center of L4113 but on further excavating, we realized that we are still just in a further layer of the collapse.

L4112 today is revealing ashy fill with the same white organic material visible yesterday, however, there is very little brick material showing up in the locus still.

Towards the end of the morning, Bradley found the remnants of a textile mat laying flat in the SW corner of L4112. He followed it and believes he found the surface.

Afternoon session:

Cat, Bradley and I went out again in the afternoon and continued excavating out from the mat that Bradley had found. This in turn led to the discovery of the floor under the collapse. We spent the rest of the afternoon tracing this floor. Cat found a pair of andirons on the edge of wall L4110 and I found what later became KT#47 in L4113 – a large mountain of fragile carved stone. We have no idea what it is but have been calling it an alter piece. This was found flat on the floor with smashed seed and carbon concentration underneath of it, leading us to believe that it was not originally sitting on the floor, but landed there during the collapse. The alter was found in the NE corner of L4113.