Daily Trench Journal

Area D Trench 10

June 14, 2005

J. Vidar

As we began going down in the l14 wall, the progression of construction began to become clearer. Our running theory right now is a three phase construction. The first phase included the wall L10 which was part of a cell plan room associated with the surface L. 15 which we can see at the base of the wall in the pit L11 and continuing on the outside of L9. The wall L12 was also there at this time. The second phase was the sealing in of the cell block room with mud brick at the higher level (L7). On the west side of L10, the L16 surface was also added at this time and appears to continue to the base of L3. L3 was then actually a piling of rocks in a third phase on the continuation of the L16 surface and leaning up against the L10 wall. The L14 wall was most likely added during the second phase as the cell block room was filled in. We know that this was not just a later building all together because of the use of the shared walls – L10, L12, and L9.

Support for the idea that L3 was not a pit, but actually a pile of rocks and sherds against a wall can be seen on Bakir’s day plans from June 7th and 8th, in which he details the original rocks abutting flat against mud brick.