Kenantepe 2005        Page 1

Trench: D.10

Date: June 11, 2005

We worked with two workers and we paid attention to find the bottom of the pit L.11. It became clear that this pit was partially cut into pit/wall L.3 in the NW. Bottom of the pit L.11 has not been found today and the dumped bricks are still found inside at 586.93 meter. Tomorrow, we will continue excavating this pit until the bottom of it is reached. In the SW corner of the pit there is a group of pebbles going into the W section. According to this section, those rocks continue towards N and maybe meeting with pit L.3.

Today, we also began removing the N baulk to find the N wall of the room L.7. Some mud-bricks began appearing in the W side of the baulk, but they disappear in the E side. Hopefully, those bricks will continue further E and make the N wall of the room. The plaster line found at the bottom of the baulk seems to confirm this idea. The pit L.3 may be earlier, since the mud-bricks in the baulk are on top of it. If the room L.7 really associated with these brick in the N baulk, then the room becomes later than the pit. For the moment this explanation is not convincing because the L.3 seem to be cutting into the W wall L.10 of the room. Perhaps, what we have in the baulk is not really belong to room L.7 and it may belong to some other architecture that was later than the room L.7. Pit L.3 may also be dated to the II. Millennium layers that was cut into Ubaid in a diagonal way towards E adjusting the possible slope of the mound. The painted sherd we found inside of the pit may be accidental and the pottery bags from this pit have not been studied yet. The major problem with these assumptions is the limited exposures of the features and the weak quality of preservation. Probably, trench D.6 will provide secure answers to the stratigraphic issues and the position of the pit L.3, room L.7 and the N wall of the room.