excavation_area_SF.jpg

Attribution:	UE 6 Plate 53, with overlay of approximate excavation unit in green
Media Type:	map

Location	Context Title	Context Description	Description (Modern)
	Giparu \| SF	The excavation area abbreviation SF refers to the southeastern portion of the giparu (KP). This building was very large and in season 3 its full extents were not yet known. It was being excavated from the north (HDB) and the south (SF) simultaneously, thus it initially received different abbreviations. SF may stand for South Face or South Front, though this is nowhere recorded. Legrain records "Gipar-ku, SE part" for this context. The shape of the giparu changed through the centuries and SF runs to join with the dublalmah to the east, as that building merged with the giparu in the Neo-Babylonian period.	(none)