Hello again fans of the Turkey Trip Blog! A lot has happened since I made my last entry! I'm almost a full meter deep in my trench (which doesn't seem like much but, trust me, it took a lot of work...), and I have found several more terra cotta roof tiles as well as numerous pottery sherds (also made from terra cotta). Eventually, we will clean off all of the terra cotta fragments and try to figure out what period the sherds came from as well as investigate whether we have any pieces of pottery that fit together. Although I'm extremely excited about all of the terra cotta, the most impressive discovery I've made in the past week was a Roman coin (dating to approximately the 2nd-3rd century AD). The coin looks to be somewhat well preserved and could prove to be useful in dating our temple.

As of recently, I have been focusing on digging as quickly as possible because part of the back face of the temple is in my trench and it is our goal to have it exposed by the end of the season. We believe that I still have at least 2 meters to go before I reach this goal so I've got my work cut out for me. Luckily, I get to have a break from digging sometimes because one of our local workers takes over for me for awhile :)

Thanks for reading!

Until next time,

Billy