Daily Trench Journal

Area D Trench 10

June 13, 2005

J. Vidar

I started D10 in the afternoon on the 13 after Bakir left. I began by having one guy take down the L14 wall to try and get down to L17. While he was doing that, I began looking around the walls of pit L11. What we originally thought was the NE corner of Room L7 actually turned out to be another mud brick row. When I looked on the south side of the pit, I scraped the side back until I found the edge of the wall L10. Abutting the wall on the E side is a clear line of red mud brick going about 7 cm down followed by 1 cm of black ash/mortar. This line of red mud brick slopes up wrapping around a quarter of the pit until the slope itself takes it out and hence making it invisible on the east edge. The NE corner however is higher than where the sloping line ends on the east side of the pit and I therefore believe that the mud brick we found in this corner is all part of one surface. The L7 room might actually be more of a mud brick platform associated with the L10 wall.

Lower down in the pit, another sloping black layer can be seen following the same slope as the higher one. This other layer is about 22cm below the mud brick layer. It appears to be in line with the L15 surface, which makes me believe that the thin layer of white directly above the black might be the continuation of this plaster.

Also, this second layer is in line with where the wall L10 appears to bottom out. This is about 26cm down from the top of the pit on the S side.