Area D Trench 10

June 18, 2005

Sibel Torpil

I took over the trench from JV on the 18th of June. I have one worker his name is Nejat Simsek. Our aim is to remove down at least 2 cm at L 19’s south part to find out if the lines of the mud-brick wall are going on or not. On the other hand we also revealed the sub-fill L21, by this way we have observed that a platform was beneath it. During the revealing process in L 19 (to the north- west portion of the locus) we observed slight grain impressions which were getting along with a broken piece of grinding stone. These make me think that we are revealing a storage room.

Besides that we also have removed L3 (the rocks which run through the west baulk) has been removed. After removing the rocks it turned out to be clear to me that the wall of L19 somehow goes together with L9 and it might get a turn to the west and then it may get along with L16. If this is true it can be said that the structure is a big cell planed structure and which has only one coarse of mud-brick wall which is marking its exterior side.

After we finished articulating L3, L19 and L21 Dr. Bradley Parker decided that we should take some overshoots so, that we will be able to observe the entire context in once before it will be gone. For this reason we took some spider shoots.