DOI article:
Bieliński, Piotr: Tell Rad Shaqrah 1994
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.26424#0114
basins, a life-sized model of a human foot made of gypsum was
discovered. It is evident that it is not part of a broken statue but a
complete piece. In the northwestern corner of the room there was
a child burial in a mudbrick box. It contained a very poorly
preserved skeleton of an infant and grave goods, including shell
pendants, numerous beads and one badly corroded, unidentifiable
bronze object.
On the south house 13/BI was bordered by another slightly
larger one (5x4 m). This southern house (labelled /ocMj 39 -
42/ Bl) was originally also single-roomed, also had six internal
buttresses and adjoined the defence wall of the settlement on the
east. The entrance was similarly located in the western wall of the
house. The domestic installations found inside /ocMV 39-42/BI
included fireplaces, banquettes and /YmHOMrj. Traces of several
internal reconstructions suggest that the house was inhabited over
a relatively long period and was finally divided by a partition wall
into two oblong narrow rooms (each about 1.6 m wide).
Subsequently some internal divisions took place inside these rooms.
Further to the south of 39-42/BI, in the enlarged Bl trench,
some fragments of another multi-roomed structure were discovered.
It seems evident that they are of the same date as both houses
described above.
Investigation of the walls of the above mentioned
13/BI revealed that the building was erected directly on top of the
walls of an earlier one belonging to the fifth Early Dynastic
stratum in area "B". This lower house, with walls preserved over
1.8 m high, was also single-roomed and had the same dimensions,
i.e. 4.6 x 3.7 m, as its successor. Also the disposition of the
internal buttresses was similar. In the lower building (/ocMJ 45/BI)
the buttresses were larger, however, taking on the form of false
arches resembling those exposed in /ocMJ 13/BI in the upper layer.
The six regularly disposed buttresses stood at floor level and were
accompanied by four smaller ones which should rather be called
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discovered. It is evident that it is not part of a broken statue but a
complete piece. In the northwestern corner of the room there was
a child burial in a mudbrick box. It contained a very poorly
preserved skeleton of an infant and grave goods, including shell
pendants, numerous beads and one badly corroded, unidentifiable
bronze object.
On the south house 13/BI was bordered by another slightly
larger one (5x4 m). This southern house (labelled /ocMj 39 -
42/ Bl) was originally also single-roomed, also had six internal
buttresses and adjoined the defence wall of the settlement on the
east. The entrance was similarly located in the western wall of the
house. The domestic installations found inside /ocMV 39-42/BI
included fireplaces, banquettes and /YmHOMrj. Traces of several
internal reconstructions suggest that the house was inhabited over
a relatively long period and was finally divided by a partition wall
into two oblong narrow rooms (each about 1.6 m wide).
Subsequently some internal divisions took place inside these rooms.
Further to the south of 39-42/BI, in the enlarged Bl trench,
some fragments of another multi-roomed structure were discovered.
It seems evident that they are of the same date as both houses
described above.
Investigation of the walls of the above mentioned
13/BI revealed that the building was erected directly on top of the
walls of an earlier one belonging to the fifth Early Dynastic
stratum in area "B". This lower house, with walls preserved over
1.8 m high, was also single-roomed and had the same dimensions,
i.e. 4.6 x 3.7 m, as its successor. Also the disposition of the
internal buttresses was similar. In the lower building (/ocMJ 45/BI)
the buttresses were larger, however, taking on the form of false
arches resembling those exposed in /ocMJ 13/BI in the upper layer.
The six regularly disposed buttresses stood at floor level and were
accompanied by four smaller ones which should rather be called
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