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356Late Bronze Age/Kinet Phase IV:1, West Slope 7Kinet’s LB sequence is based on the west slope’s combined OP. J/L (ca. 100m 2 ) 8 . It was excavated by 1999 down to the site’s earliest LB level, Kinet Period15 (LB I/16th c. B.C.), represented by impressive stone foundations belongingto a single structure, and an intrusive material culture from central Anatolia.Kinet retained this Hittite character during three further LB occupation levels,Periods 14, 13.2 and 13.1 (all LB II) 9 . A broader expanse of these Late Bronzelevels could be anticipated in the adjacent trench OP. E/H, immediately to thenorth and east, which at the time was in Kinet’s Late Iron Age Period 7 10 . Theconsiderable project of taking E/H down to LB levels began in 2001, and wasmost instructive: in 2005, revealing a final LB II phase marked by the declineof Hittite influence (Period 13.2, not attested in J/L); and, in 2006, adding 170m 2 to the layout of its thoroughly Hittite predecessor, Period 13.1. This season,efforts in OP. E/H, now 190 m 2 , concentrated on Period 14, Kinet’s earliest LBII architectural phase (14th c. B.C.), known in ‘94/’98 J/L to have burnt withfurnishings in situ. The 2007 season also succeeded in recovering an outline ofthe underlying building from Period 15.PERIOD 14: OP. E/H this year nearly tripled Period 14’s exposure. Its northarea was occupied by a large building (Figs. 7-8), whose outer foundations(wall 572) were followed for a length of 17.5 m. It served as a back wall forthree rooms (637, 638, 640), all extending into E/H’s north balk: the servicewing of a multiroom complex. The rooms’ two separate floors, the later onewith smashed pottery, matched J/L’s phasing and circumstances precisely.Differences in masonry showed that the rooms were not all constructed atthe same time, again like the house in J/L. Near the close of Period 14, butapparently prior to its destruction, a third building (walls 573/571, 532) wasfounded in the southeast quadrant of E/H. It survived, with multiple repairs,throughout the following Period 13.1, and is associated more appropriatelywith that later level 11 .7 Supervisor for OP. E/H: C. Gates, with F. Tütüncü and E. Yüzügüzel.8 Because the west slope trenches expanded west as they became deeper: OP. J/L became ca. 9.5x 9.5 m. for Period 14, and ca. 9.5 x 13.5 m. for Period 15.9 Gates 2006.10 By 2004, OP. E/H combined five adjacent trenches of varying sizes that began on the westslope as independent operations: the stratigraphic sounding ‘92/’93 OP. C, ‘94 C II, ‘93/’98 F,and the original OPs. E (‘93-’95) and H (‘94-’95). OPs. E and H started at the top edge of themound, and gradually absorbed the other trenches further down the slope.11 Gates 2008: 287-288.