UPDATE OF THE SUMMARY OF POTTERY READING (AUG 19, 2000)
There are several points that I must make correction from the above summary since the last pottery reading.
Rather than go back and fix my original data, Idecided to mention here. Now, we know more about pottery than
before and I must make that clear. All the possible N5 pot-sherds turned out to be a Hellenistic in age. Also,
what we call type I (pale-ware with red paint) is also of Hellenistic age. This will suggest that almost all the loci
are of Hellenistic in age. The burial 1005, is not an Iron age burial and it is Hellenistic. Locus 1009, which
seemed to be a clearly Iron age occupation is in doubt. From KT 1051, I found Type I which is Hellenistic, but KT
1054 seems to be in Iron age (Assyrian nipple base, COR. bowl etc) KT 1054 is the only KT that is in Iron age
and others are Hellenistic.
Locus 1011
This Locus is the Burial at the SE corner of the trench. surrounded by lining of rocks.
We found a skelton in the south balk. The skelton was oriented towards west (direction of head), and the hand
was crossed. The age and sex has not been determined. Below the stones, I found a mud-brick lining, possible
following the rocks above.
Type 7 and Type 65 (Jar with rolled-over rim) both Hellenistic
Locus 1015
This Locus is the burial at the center of the trench. The pit was dug through the surface
1013 and 1020. Head was oriented towards Southwest. We excavated this individual with extreme care. During
the excavation, we found ribs, knee bone, and finger bones in the skull. Also, some gnaw marks were apparent in
the right Tibia and Femur. We think that this person was left out after the death for a while. Then, he body was
picked up by someone, all the fragments of the body was stuffed into the head and buried. Interesting enough,
when the pit was dug, a burial right below the feet (East) was cut through (Locus 1026). It seems that Locus 1015
cuts Locus 1026, and the head of 1026 is smashed. There were only few pottery from this burial pit and not a
definate diagnostic sherds were found, but it seems to be from the Hellenistic. I found an outline of this pit above
the surface of 1020 (found loose soil at Locus 1008). The Locus 1008 dates to Hellenistic. So, this burial must
dat to Hel or later.
Locus 1017
This Locus is the pit that is located at the SW corner of the trench. We found several
smashed pieces of human bones, and the soil was loose so it was a good possibility to find a burial here. We do
not know the precise shape of the pit since it was too close to the balk and it seems to go under the rocks at
Locus 1016. This suggest that pit is earlier than the rocks of 1016. The pottery from this Locus seems to be of
hellenistic, but we only found few frag of Red-Brown wash ware.
Locus 1018
This Locus is the Oven at the SW section of the trench. It has a circular shape. Ashy soil
was on top of a compacted mud. The Oven seems to extends further north and could be connected to Locus
1024 (Oven II). Several bones were found scattered arond the area. The burial 1015 seems to cut through the
oven. I found dark ashy soil below the large rocks(Locus 1016). The relationship between the pit(1017) and this
Locus has not been determined. Found Type 7 pot-sherds and seems to be from hellenistic age.
Locus 1024
This Locus is the Oven at the Northside of the trench. This oven was not well preserved,
and seemed to have a pit at the center. The soil was loose and deep on the North side and ashy soil was shallow
at the south side. Both of the oven L1018 and L 1024 has not been fully excavated, we must define the limit of
the oven. We found red-brown wash and type 9, purly Hellenistic assembly.
Locus 1025
This Locus was assigned since we found child teeth within the Locus 1011(burial). The
soil that looked different and loose were pedestled to be excavated. We found little differnce, but probably a pit.
Found hellenistic incurbed rim bowl.
Locus 1026
This is the burial that is located just east of the burial 1015. The skull of this person was
bashed when a pit was dug to bury a person (L 1015). Pottery reading has not been done for this Locus.