Friday 13 February 2009

LBA palace walls

Just a quickie, as it's all a bit hectic with one week to go. The trench feels basically under control... always an unsettlingly feeling, as archaeology has a habit of making a fool of the presumptive and our best informed predictions.
The Late Bronze Age destruction is poking through in places, which is great. The plaster floors are about 10-30cm below where we're currently at. It's now partly a matter of juggling men and time as we try to expose them all at once for photos. Should be ok if it doesn't rain, and we don't find too much trezur (but if we do, that's a nice problem to have).
Sorry the pic isn't great, half in shade, etc. but I was rushing to plan some of the metre thick LBA walls before hopping on the bus up to Irbid and internet. I think I've found the palatial parking lot (chariots to the west, donkeys on the east please), and audience waiting chamber, before ye olde people went up into the tower building (at the bottom of the photo)... Birq's less sure.

When I'm not doing trench stuff, I'm puddling mudbricks to find out what palaces, temples and humble abodes were built out of, but I won't bore you with photos of the 40 bricks I've analysed so far. Suffice to say, some are half a metre long and weigh over 30kg, whilst others are tiddlers.
Knackered... but happy as a 'khanzir bil wattel' as they would say round here, if creatures that go oink weren't haram.

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