Room 6

Context Title: Room 6     
Context Name (Publication): Room 61     
Context Description: Chapel1     
Context Description: A door in the NW wall led into Room 6; this was paved and beneath the pavement was a brick vaulted tomb (not excavated). At the SW end was a dais raised one course of bricks above the pavement level and on it, against the wall, was a brick altar 2.10 m. long and 0.35 m. high, set in front of a niche in the wall's face, and in the west corner the remains (0.35 m. high) of a brick "table". In the south corner of the room, by the side of the altar, there was an infant's burial in a "hutch" coffin (cf. PI. 97) the top of which was flush with the surface of the pavement and had never been concealed. The niche behind the altar was square and was 0.65 m. high, above which it narrowed down to a chimney.2     
[1] Imported from BM list of contexts.
[2] UE 7 p.124

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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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Room 1 - Room 2 - Room 3 - Room 4 - Room 5 - Room 7

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LG/57.7 - LG/57.8

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References

Luby, Edward Michael. (1990) Social Variation in Ancient Mesopotamia: An Architectural and Mortuary Analysis of Ur in the Early Second Millenium B.C., UMI Dissertation Services.

Woolley, L. and M. Mallowan . (1976) Ur Excavations VII; The Old Babylonian Period, Oxford: Oxford University Press.