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Tuesday, January 13, 2015

View of the “kom” on square G Central 6/East 13 baulk.
Detail showing a secondary pit dug sideways into the kom in order to deposit the infant.

On the “kom” on square G Central 6/East 13 baulk we have discovered an infant burial, indicated yesterday. The overview from above shows the position of the child’s skull on the mound, and the detail with an arrow shows a secondary pit dug sideways into the kom in order to deposit the infant. The soil is a grayer color and nubbly here. Afaf is working here and looked up to let me snap the picture. The last photo here was taken later in the day and shows that Afaf and Sayeed began to find the rest of the skeleton which is actually running toward the southwest. The pottery on surface does not really appear to be in association with this deposit.

Alaf and Sayeed working on the burial.

The Pottery Team: Luke, Rania, Phil, Marina, Gaultier, and Meredith.
The Pottery Team: Luke, Rania, Phil, Marina, Gaultier, and Meredith.

It is generally difficult to showcase our “Pottery Team” who are really working intensively and therefore largely seated at their tables. So I show you a group of pictures taken through the day, morning and then afternoon. As you can see it is still pretty nippy in the morning, but less so by around 10 am. Around the table in the morning, clockwise, Luke, Rania, Phil, Marina, Gaultier, and Meredith. Then you see Marina at her drawing and Luke working on gluing a pot. Finally, you see Rania and Phil who never seem to emerge from their wrappings but who work, work, and work.

Marina at her drawing and Luke working on gluing a pot.
Rania and Phil.

The team at Trench G Central 7/East 12 baulk.
Jessica and Allie working with gufti Yasin to clean emerging bone.

Over at Trench G Central 7/East 12 baulk, Allie today is helping out with another new skeleton that has appeared above the level of the skull we knew to be in situ (!) So far we have the bones of four (!!) new skeletons (one only a pelvis and long bones) since we began work on the 4th. You see Jessica and Allie working with gufti Yasin to clean emerging bone, while nearby Violaine keeps the notebooks. This is surely an interesting environment and becoming more so all the time.

Violaine keeps the notebooks.

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