Aug 8, 2000

Level 5 Today, we only completed one level....  Tomorrow, I am planning to excavate as much as we could. This morning, I decided to keep the wall at the West corner and dig around it to see if the wall extends downward and show any surface. As soon as we start excavating, we found a surface with pebbles and flat-lying sherds. It was a definate surface as in the case with the level 2. we exposed rest of the surface and seems to show several different types of cultural surface. We took a plannable photo-shot and I draw a quick sketch of the plan, but I will try to explain here. If you stand on the South balk and look towards North, this is what you will see: From West(Left), there is a wall (from level 4). This wall was made from lining the flat-stone, about 15 - 20 cm long. About 5 or 6 rocks are placed in line, running N-S, slightly tilted to East. Next, there are some rocks, similar to the wall, are placed below the wall. About3 or 4 rocks on south side. Actually, this is hard to explain. Basically, There seems to be a two lines of large rocks running N-S, and in between those lining of rocks, the surface is covered with small stones of about less than 5 cm in diameter. This surface is tightly layed with rocks. Phill told we that it was similar to the steps at Hasan Kayf. it certainly does. Or, it could be a passway. Just north of these tight layed rocks layer is a pebbled surface. East half is somewhat covered with hard compacted soil that we seeing all over the site. I am not sure the wall from the previous level has any connection to this surface. After taking photos and draw a plan, I decided to take away the wall from Level 4. KT 3026 and KT 3027 came out from below the wall. We will dig down tomorrow, destroy this beautiful surface. The mission is to reache the Uruk surface! It's kind of strange to see nothing on my 4 m x 4 m trench, but so far we had two definate surfaces on 2 m x 2 m. Archaeology rely on chance.