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EF08.30
Season
2008
Narrative

Today we were working again in T20 and T22. In T22, we focused mostly on the southern line, trying to better delineate the stones that lie between the two trenches. The area that lies directly south of the central room is being dug down, but because of the quantity of rocks in the area, it is being troweled and so is somewhat of a slow process. So far, it is possible that one of the jumbles of rock that lie just north of the terrace wall continues into T22, but it's not yet clear.The terrace wall itself seems to be confounding. When we discovered more of the EB surface today (while removing a number of the rocks that were jumbled together west of locus 104's original extent, but which were clearly not a wall), we thought it might be possible that the terrace wall was associated with the EB surface and so also EB. However, as Ruben delineated the corner of the pithos wall with the terrace wall, he found beneath it some apparently LB sherds, suggesting an LB date for the terrace wall. The actual joint between the pithos wall and the terrace wall may be only an abutment, not an intermingling of masonry. The EB surface of T20.104 was found to extend to the west beyond where it was photographed yesterday, which was not a surprise. The surprise, however, was a vessel lying on top of it, nearly complete (locus 108). There is also a bone on the surface (horn?), and an obsidian core was found somewhat above the surface. Photos were taken of this surface at the end of the day, but the vessel and the bone--and another large vessel sherd near the east-west wall (Locus 107)--were left in situ at the end of the day. Tomorrow we will try to open up the entire room and find the boundary between loci 101 and 104.