Context Title: Room 2     
Context Name (Publication): Room 21     
Context Description: Central Court1     
Context Description: Room 2, the central court, had a paving of bricks 0.30 m. X 0.20 m., sloping to a drain in the middle; the walls, with seventeen courses of burnt brick stood up to 3.00 m. and had a plaster 0.04 m. thick with a very fine smooth surface but no trace of whitewash; the plaster was burnt to a deep red. In the south corner was a brick bench, earth-filled, 1.00 m. X 0.60 m. X 0.30 m. high, the brick edging raised slightly above the filling; against the SW wall was a curved bench 1.00 m. X 0.70 m. with brick face and earth filling and against the NW wall was a circular clay baking-oven. Below the floor was the grave LG/1.2     
[1] Imported from BM list of contexts.
[2] UE 7 p.143

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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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