Context Title: No. 9 Church Lane     
Context Name (Publication): No. 9 Church Lane1     
Context Description: The house lay at the far end of a long private passage which ran back from Church Lane between the "Ram Chapel" (No. 11 Church Lane) and a row of what were probably magazines belonging to the householder; that they were store-rooms seems to be shown by the fact that they required protection; at the entrance of the passage there was a little guard-chamber where a slave could sit and keep effectual watch on all comers. There were six store-rooms in all and they call for no description; to the first three (Nos. 2a, 3a, and 4a) which inter-communicated, no entrance could be found by us, the wall being in places completely ruined; No. 5a afforded access to Nos. 6a and 7a and was itself entered by a door prudently close to the front door of the house proper. The wall along Church Lane was somewhat pretentious, for twenty-five courses of burnt brick still survived; round the main court (Room 1) there were sixteen courses, but behind this the building utilised older walls of which the burnt-brick foundations were buried deep underground and only the mud brick showed above ground level. There were therefore two periods represented, of which the front of the house belonged to the later. It is peculiar that there were two front doors, one leading straight into the central court and one into the small passage-room (2) which is more like the normal lobby. At a later time, when the court level had risen by 0.60 m. or more, the door into it was walled up and only that into the passage used. It is further peculiar that access to the two rooms (3) and (4) was through the passage only and that they had no doors onto the central court - it is a most rare exception to the rule of the omen-texts.2     
Culture/Period: Isin-Larsa1     
[1] Imported from BM list of contexts.
[2] UE 7 p.131-2

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Object U Number Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) Museum Number (BM Registration Number) Museum Number (UPM B-number) Description (Catalog Card)
16070 (none) (none) (none) Clay tablet. Commercial. Date: Year after Simurru was destroyed for the thrid time?- Dungi 31 (SAKI 231) (Text varies from SAKI 231 in the order of the words) [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16367A (none) 1931,1010.174 (none) Set of four weights: (A) Black hematite, ovoid, weight 224 grs. Prob. - 3 sheqels (nominal weight 25.248) Type I (B) Black hematite, ovoid, weight 7.68 grs. perhaps-1 sheqel (nonminal weight 8.416); Type I (C) Brown hematite, in section thus [drawing] weight 8.512 grs. - 1 sheqel Type ? (D) Black hematite duck weight=4.352 Grs= 1/2 sheqel (nominal weight 4.208) Type VI
16367B (none) 1931,1010.174 (none) Set of four weights: (A) Black hematite, ovoid, weight 224 grs. Prob. - 3 sheqels (nominal weight 25.248) Type I (B) Black hematite, ovoid, weight 7.68 grs. perhaps-1 sheqel (nonminal weight 8.416); Type I (C) Brown hematite, in section thus [drawing] weight 8.512 grs. - 1 sheqel Type ? (D) Black hematite duck weight=4.352 Grs= 1/2 sheqel (nominal weight 4.208) Type VI
16367C (none) 1931,1010.174 (none) Set of four weights: (A) Black hematite, ovoid, weight 224 grs. Prob. - 3 sheqels (nominal weight 25.248) Type I (B) Black hematite, ovoid, weight 7.68 grs. perhaps-1 sheqel (nonminal weight 8.416); Type I (C) Brown hematite, in section thus [drawing] weight 8.512 grs. - 1 sheqel Type ? (D) Black hematite duck weight=4.352 Grs= 1/2 sheqel (nominal weight 4.208) Type VI
16367D (none) 1931,1010.174 (none) Set of four weights: (A) Black hematite, ovoid, weight 224 grs. Prob. - 3 sheqels (nominal weight 25.248) Type I (B) Black hematite, ovoid, weight 7.68 grs. perhaps-1 sheqel (nonminal weight 8.416); Type I (C) Brown hematite, in section thus [drawing] weight 8.512 grs. - 1 sheqel Type ? (D) Black hematite duck weight=4.352 Grs= 1/2 sheqel (nominal weight 4.208) Type VI
16368 (none) (none) (none) Necklace. Carnelian: balls, double conoids, lentoids, rings & 2 bugles. Quartz: balls, double conoids. Jasper: 1 flattened double conoid, 1 barrel. Agate:barrel.
16379 (none) (none) (none) Bronze bowl. [drawing]
16393A (none) (none) (none) [A-B] A pair of gold earrings. Thin gold wire. Single coil. Ends slightly overlapping. [drawing 1:1]
16393B (none) (none) (none) [A-B] A pair of gold earrings. Thin gold wire. Single coil. Ends slightly overlapping. [drawing 1:1]
16394 (none) (none) (none) Beads, 2: Sard lentoid, lapis bugle.
16523A 42-30-156 (none) (none) [A-C] 3 clay tablets. See U.16823. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card] (A) ...; (B)...; (C)...;
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Social Variation in Ancient Mesopotamia: An Architectural and Mortuary Analysis of Ur in the Early S Social Variation in Ancient Mesopotamia: An Architectural and Mortuary Analysis of Ur in the Early Second Millenium B.C. 1990 Luby, Edward Michael (none)
Ur Excavations VII; The Old Babylonian Period Ur Excavations VII; The Old Babylonian Period 1976 Woolley, L. and M. Mallowan (none)
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