No. 9 Niche Lane

Context Title:	No. 9 Niche Lane
Context Name (Publication):	No. 9 Niche Lane¹
Context Description:	No. 9 (given a street number in virtue of its having had a separate door to the lane) appears to have been a one-room arrangement which can scarcely have been other than a porter's lodge (cf. No. 9 Church Lane). It had a paved floor lying relatively high with a drain in the middle of its SW end; there was once a door in its NE wall but this had been walled up; the SE wall was almost completely ruined and it is just possible that there really was a door in it, but there was no sign of anything of the sort remaining. A lodge allowing of the supervision both of the house proper and of the isolated chapel is a not improbable feature. At a late period the door in the NW wall was blocked, and at that time there must have been access to one or other of the neighbouring rooms, 8 or 9 of No. 4. ²
Culture/Period:	Isin-Larsa¹

[1] Imported from BM list of contexts.

[2] UE 7 p.123

Media	Media Title	Title	Label	Author	Omeka Label
	Ur Excavations VII; The Old Babylonian Period	Ur Excavations VII; The Old Babylonian Period	1976	Woolley, L. and M. Mallowan	(none)