DOI article:
Bieliński, Piotr: Tell Rad Shaqrah 1992 - the fifth season of explorations in northeast Syria
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new trenches were marked out. The trench designated as A-2
measured 6 x 5 m and was extended by 2 x 1.5 m to the north-
east, while A-3 measured 4 x 5 m. The A-2 trench is situated 5
m to the south of the old trench A and A-3 about 10 m to the
west of it (Fig. 2). Since the northern part of Tell Rad Shaqrah
was designated as Area D the 1991 test trench A-l on the slope
was renamed D-l, and enlarged considerably to measure 5 x 7 m.
To the west of it two new trenches labelled consecutively as D-2
and D-3 each 5 x 6 m were opened at a distance of 5 m from
each other.
In trench A exploration of locus 1/A, a large room partly
uncovered last year belonging to the ED period building men-
tioned above, was completed. Its original dimensions were 5.8 x
4.2 m. Pairs of fairly regularly spaced inner buttresses were
recorded on the northern, eastern and southern walls, but only
one such buttress on the western wall. Instead there was an
entrance with a stone door socket. Along the northern and eastern
walls, in between the buttresses, ten storage jars were found;
none were uncovered against the southern and western walls of
the room.
The center of locus 1/A was occupied by a large nearly
rectangular fireplace, while another, much smaller, one was found
near the northeastern comer of the room. In the northern part of
this room there was a shallow, gypsum-plastered basin. It was
rectangular and measured ca 1.1 x 1.1 m. On the floor and near
the storage jars an interesting set of complete vessels ranging in
shape from cups to jars was discovered. Numerous fragments of
wall plaster were scattered over them, having evidently fallen
from above. One such fragment, about 1 m long, was decorated
with a series of small rectangular niches ca 10 cm deep.
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measured 6 x 5 m and was extended by 2 x 1.5 m to the north-
east, while A-3 measured 4 x 5 m. The A-2 trench is situated 5
m to the south of the old trench A and A-3 about 10 m to the
west of it (Fig. 2). Since the northern part of Tell Rad Shaqrah
was designated as Area D the 1991 test trench A-l on the slope
was renamed D-l, and enlarged considerably to measure 5 x 7 m.
To the west of it two new trenches labelled consecutively as D-2
and D-3 each 5 x 6 m were opened at a distance of 5 m from
each other.
In trench A exploration of locus 1/A, a large room partly
uncovered last year belonging to the ED period building men-
tioned above, was completed. Its original dimensions were 5.8 x
4.2 m. Pairs of fairly regularly spaced inner buttresses were
recorded on the northern, eastern and southern walls, but only
one such buttress on the western wall. Instead there was an
entrance with a stone door socket. Along the northern and eastern
walls, in between the buttresses, ten storage jars were found;
none were uncovered against the southern and western walls of
the room.
The center of locus 1/A was occupied by a large nearly
rectangular fireplace, while another, much smaller, one was found
near the northeastern comer of the room. In the northern part of
this room there was a shallow, gypsum-plastered basin. It was
rectangular and measured ca 1.1 x 1.1 m. On the floor and near
the storage jars an interesting set of complete vessels ranging in
shape from cups to jars was discovered. Numerous fragments of
wall plaster were scattered over them, having evidently fallen
from above. One such fragment, about 1 m long, was decorated
with a series of small rectangular niches ca 10 cm deep.
121