DOI Artikel:
Bieliński, Piotr: The first campaign of excavations on Tell Rad Shaqrah (Hasake Southern Dam Basin)
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.26426#0084
to assume that the building to whieh they belonged was an
important one. All the pottery collected from the floor of the
storeroom could be dated to the Early Dynastic III period (but not
to its later part), corroborating the date suggested for the thick wall
and the glacis.
In area B in the southeastem comer of Tell Rad Shaqrah two
trenches were opened, each of them measuring 9.5 x 4.5 m,
separated only by a narrow baulk. Remains from three consecutive
oecupational strata were uncovered in both trenches. AIl the strata
contained pottery of ED III date with such characteristic elements
as Metallic Ware and rarely found sherds of incised (late) Ninevite
5 pottery. The topmost layer of this sector was nearly completely
washed away by erosion. It comprised only fragments of basalt
foundations (about 0.5 m wide) consisting of two rows of boulders
with no corresponding floors or walls. These foundations, in
certain places preserved to a height of two layers of stones, formed
the outlines of small reguiar rooms on the tell surface.
The second stratum was much better preserved. In this layer,
in the northem part of the trench, there was a narrow street (c. 1.4
m wide) mnning from NW to SE. The discovered fragment was
nearly 4 m long and was partly paved with pebbles and covered
with ashes mixed with potsherds. On both sides of this lane two
separate dwelling units were located. These had stone foundations
similar to the ones from the upper layer. Of the northem unit only
one room comer was exposed within the trench limits, while of the
southem one two small rooms were explored. Each of them was
c. 1.1 m wide. The northem contained a large tannur. It seems that
this unit continued further toward the west and south. Still further
to the south and southwest, fragments belonging to three other
domestic stmctures were discovered. They consisted of (with one
exception) very small rooms, rarely larger than 1.5 m, and with
walls respecting the same orientation as the narrow street. The
mudbrick walls of these houses were plastered from inside and
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important one. All the pottery collected from the floor of the
storeroom could be dated to the Early Dynastic III period (but not
to its later part), corroborating the date suggested for the thick wall
and the glacis.
In area B in the southeastem comer of Tell Rad Shaqrah two
trenches were opened, each of them measuring 9.5 x 4.5 m,
separated only by a narrow baulk. Remains from three consecutive
oecupational strata were uncovered in both trenches. AIl the strata
contained pottery of ED III date with such characteristic elements
as Metallic Ware and rarely found sherds of incised (late) Ninevite
5 pottery. The topmost layer of this sector was nearly completely
washed away by erosion. It comprised only fragments of basalt
foundations (about 0.5 m wide) consisting of two rows of boulders
with no corresponding floors or walls. These foundations, in
certain places preserved to a height of two layers of stones, formed
the outlines of small reguiar rooms on the tell surface.
The second stratum was much better preserved. In this layer,
in the northem part of the trench, there was a narrow street (c. 1.4
m wide) mnning from NW to SE. The discovered fragment was
nearly 4 m long and was partly paved with pebbles and covered
with ashes mixed with potsherds. On both sides of this lane two
separate dwelling units were located. These had stone foundations
similar to the ones from the upper layer. Of the northem unit only
one room comer was exposed within the trench limits, while of the
southem one two small rooms were explored. Each of them was
c. 1.1 m wide. The northem contained a large tannur. It seems that
this unit continued further toward the west and south. Still further
to the south and southwest, fragments belonging to three other
domestic stmctures were discovered. They consisted of (with one
exception) very small rooms, rarely larger than 1.5 m, and with
walls respecting the same orientation as the narrow street. The
mudbrick walls of these houses were plastered from inside and
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