The smell has been... interesting, but one nice thing our ja-poo-zy has given us is this wonderful bench that Greg designed!
It's a nice platform right up against the new wall that will serve as a shaded pottery drawing and eating area. And yes, the floor is covered with dung-filled muna.
In other news, our benches have been delayed. In the Old Kingdom area they found evidence of some old enclosure walls. Since they have part of the same walls running perpendicular in another part of the tell, they are going to look for evidence of the corner... which is right underneath where we'd planned to put benches 3 and 4. So instead of benches, our area looks like this:
Oh well, such is archaeology. I can't decide whether I'm hopeful that they'll find something, or if I hope they give up and give us our bench. We'll see. So instead of putting blocks places, Jon and I are frantically trying to do some more epigraphy before he leaves. We won't be able to get all the Saite blocks done since a lot are too big to move into a position where they can be drawn, but we'll have all of our joins drawn.
Nothing else new to report! Time for a shower!
It's a nice platform right up against the new wall that will serve as a shaded pottery drawing and eating area. And yes, the floor is covered with dung-filled muna.
In other news, our benches have been delayed. In the Old Kingdom area they found evidence of some old enclosure walls. Since they have part of the same walls running perpendicular in another part of the tell, they are going to look for evidence of the corner... which is right underneath where we'd planned to put benches 3 and 4. So instead of benches, our area looks like this:
Oh well, such is archaeology. I can't decide whether I'm hopeful that they'll find something, or if I hope they give up and give us our bench. We'll see. So instead of putting blocks places, Jon and I are frantically trying to do some more epigraphy before he leaves. We won't be able to get all the Saite blocks done since a lot are too big to move into a position where they can be drawn, but we'll have all of our joins drawn.
Nothing else new to report! Time for a shower!
