Daily Log

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July 9, 1979

4 cartons of pottery

7 boxes of tile

We continue to remove a layer of earth over teh burn layer ca-27 cm. deep and 42 to 69cm. from the top of the trench in the strip running north south just east of the strip removed just east of the north-south wall.  We begin moving north from the last portion of M38-39 and reach ca. 80cm. down the soil here is a dark tan and of a granular, clayey consistency with chunks and bits of a harder, white material.  A grea deal of tile is found scattered throughout including several fragments of frieze plaques.  4 boxes of pottery, mainly impasto and small courseware.

In J soil of the red-black burn layer is touched here too a bit of bronze emerges.  The cut dips toward the north graxing the burn layer.  Many small and some large stones throughout.  A few fragments of yellowish and piknk plaster are found.  Pottery is concentrated in grids L-M38-39, which yields a full carton, while L-G produce 3 cartons.  Some bucchero, oragnce and gray ware may be added to the more plentiful impasto moted above.

19790099

19790099

• Find #2
• M39
• fragment of rochetto of reddish impasto on head and incised "x"
  • Drawing
  • Photo

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19790081

19790081

• Find #3
• M39
• Fragment of relief plaque with guilloche border
  • Drawing
  • Photo

19790082

19790082

• Find #6
• L38-39
• Fragment of freize plaque
  • Drawing
  • Photo

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19790083

• find #8
• J-L38-39
• Fragment of frieze plaque.  Processio. Rump and tail of horse
  • Drawing
  • Photo

19790086

• Find #10
• H-I38-39
• fragment of freize plaque with guilloche border, horse race
  • Drawing
  • Photo

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P.M.

2 boxes of tile

3 cartons of pottery

We complete the clearing of this mornings cut to the north reaching the end of F38-39 and exposing the east and north walls of the trench in grids 38-39 F-O to a depth of 25-30cm., just reaching, or just over the burn layer below.  Tile continues to around and frieze plaque (#16) to occur, also antefix fragments (#5, #10. #12).  Bronze slag and pottery continue in modest quantity.

Also begin removing the cut below the above one mentioned in grids O-N37-38, extending the cut made along the north-south wall to the south, and P37-38.  here an uneven burn layer is encountered, especially in O-N, low in the cut with characteristic red-black siol.  These cuts produced bronze slag, and small quantities of sometimes fine pottery, much charcoal, of which a sample is taken, and fragments of worked stone, ivory and wood.  Also 1 box of tile .  Bronze slag, also large lumps (#6,#8) and fragmentary nails (#19)

Also begin full exposure of rock fall in grids N-P33-34 where a 1/2 carton of pottery emerges and continues removing a large pot in N33 where a rochetto (#21, p. 253 ) is found.

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19790273

• Find #5
• F39
• Fragment of gorgon antefix (locks)
  • Drawing
  • Photo

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19790089

• Find #10
• F38
• Fragment of gorgon antefix with paint visible, red on tongue and face, darker coloration within mouth
  • Drawing
  • Photo

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19790104

• Find #21
• N33
• Fragment of impasto rochetto
• Drawing
• Photo