Kenantepe 2005         Page 1

Datum: 587.95 (located to the NW of D.5)

Trench: D.5

Date: May 18, 2005

Today, I checked carefully if wall L. 5211 (Nick’s 5201) was continuing further down, but it turned out that this feature is not a wall but probably collapse of mud at the NE edge of the ‘Ubaid settlement. Thus, L.5207 expands into this area to the edge of the settlement.

Work has continued in L.5206 with sm. pick and trowel and there is not ant distinct feature in it.

Work in L.5207 produced two mud-bricks lying in N-S direction but there are not more of them to call a wall here. The complete one in the N has the size of 55x25 cm. Separate from these, there are three smaller size (10-12x20 cm) mud-bricks lying about 50 cm away in the E-W direction. Because of the alignment, they may have been in-situ representing a wall. Both of these two types of bricks show no sign of fire. It is unsafe to call them as a wall and give them a new locus number due to bad preservation. The soil in this locus consists of hard and fine clayey silt with almost no inclusion. However, the soil color varies as various sizes of patches, such as orange, buff and light brown. Perhaps, I am dealing with the collapse of various walls filled the area over time at the sloping edge of the settlement. I wish there would be some better architectural remains to confirm this statement.

Wall L.5213, drawing the borderline in between L.5206 and L.5207, is partially removed to see its foundation level. It seems it does not go further down. Tomorrow, I will check once more when it dries completely and I will remove it completely to come to the level of L.5206.

The deteriorated baulk in between D.5 and D.9 removed until the level of L.5206, which was 586.35 as of today. This clean baulk will allow me to control possible Ubaid levels in D.9 and compare them within both trenches.