Room 3

Context Title:	Room 3
Context Name (Publication):	Room 3¹
Context Description:	Room 3 showed that originally the house extended as far east as the boundary wall of No. 5 Church Lane. This long narrow room was paved (pavement preserved at the SE end) and had a door in its NE wall which was naturally blocked up when the room into which it led became part of the neighbouring house. In its SW wall was another door leading into the chapel of No. 3 Straight Street; it was not original but had been made by cutting away the SE section of the wall when the NW section, originally of mud brick, was rebuilt in burnt brick; at that time there were steps in the doorway from the level of the high pavement of the Old Street house to that of its neighbour, but when the floor of the chapel was raised a new threshold was put in obliterating the steps. The NW end of the room had contained the stairs, which started against the NW jamb of the courtyard door and ran over Room 4; the section of the SW wall of the court containing the staircase was a clumsy piece of reconstruction belonging only to the present phase of the house but built over the remains of an earlier wall in the same position.²

[1] Imported from BM list of contexts.

[2] UE 7 p.124

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)