TTB
| Context Title: | TTB |
| Context Name (Excavation): | Trial Trench B |
| Context Name (Publication): | E-nun-mah |
| Context Description: | TTB is shorthand for Trial Trench B, one of two trenches excavated in Woolley's first season at Ur in 1922. This one was about 4 meters wide by about 60 meters long and ended up almost entirely within the e-nun-mah, a building that went through many forms over the centuries. The trench was expanded to reveal the building and extra abbreviations were added to it to indicate portions, roughly in directional notation from the main trench. The trench cut the building close to the west corner and TTB.W became the abbreviation for this area beyond the trench itself. TTB.SS and TTB.ES covered the larger area to the south and east. The abbreviation ES was then used in later seasons to refer to the majority of the building and a small portion of the area to the south of it. The enunmah itself was a complicated structure that seems to have changed function from storeroom (originally called the ganunmah) to temple through its long history. Woolley began assigning room numbers within the abbreviation TTB, but these excavation room numbers do not correlate precisely with the published room numbers. |
| Season Number: | 01: 1922-1923 |
Files
| Object | U Number | Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) | Museum Number (BM Registration Number) | Museum Number (UPM B-number) | Description (Catalog Card) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 282 | (none) | (none) | B14951 | Fragment of stone vase. On side, decoration of concentric circles. On base, inscription, "(Na)ram-S(in)" |
| 284 | (none) | (none) | B14937, B14937 | Broken mace head. Alabaster. Inscription. Only first line showing, reads "Naram"-(Sin?). Placed in IN/No. 1. |
| 285 | (none) | 1923,1110.28 | (none) | Fragment of vessel or mace head, white marble. Inscribed in probably early characters with a dedication to En-(lil)? Placed in IN/No. 1 |
| 286 | (none) | 1923,1110.16 | (none) | Fragment of limestone pot, from rim. Traces of long inscription showing long line on right-hand side. Placed in IN/No. 1. |
| 287 | (none) | (none) | B14946, B14946 | Alabaster fragment of jar. Inscribed with a dedication to Nin-arag-nun-na (probably Ningal). Placed in IN/No 1. |
| 288 | (none) | (none) | B14945, B14945 | Fragment of Alabaster jar. End of first 3 lines of a dedication to Nannar. Placed in IN/No. 1. |
| 289 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Fragment of black stone vase. Last sign of last line of a dedication. Placed in IN/No. 1. |
| 290 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bottom right-hand quarter of large closely inscribed tablet of New Babylonian or Persian period containing omens. Includes an important list of gods and their spouses. Begins [Cuneiform] Ends [Cuneiform] Placed in IN/No2 |
| 293 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Gate socket. Limestone. Inscription of Kurigalza, badly damaged. Copied. |
| 295 | (none) | 1923,1110.3 | (none) | Gate socket, Basalt. Inscription on smooth surface, with shoulder below. Records the building of A.A22AG.GA.NI GIG.KISAL[Above] by Bur-Sin I. Copied and transliterated. |
| 297 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay cone. Nearly complete. Inscription, Ur-Engur, E-temen-ni-il. Duplicate of 201 [presumably U.201]. Placed in IN/No.4 |
| 298 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay cone. Bottom. Inscribed, illegible. Placed in IN/No.2 [Crossed out] Thrown out. |
| 300 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay Cone. nearly complete, only the top missing. Inscribed. Ur-Engur, E-temen-ni-il, Duplicate of 201 [presumably U.201] placed in IN/No.4 |
| 301 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay cone. Fragment of Inscribed, probably Ur-Engur, duplicate of 201 [Presumably U.201] Scrapped. Placed in IN/No.4. |
| 302 | (none) | (none) | B14956 | Steatite box-lid. fr. of; Circular: the top carved with a rosette of which the petals were originally inlaid; two holes are pierced through the lid from side to side for strings. [Drawing 1:1} | |
| 303 | (none) | 1923,1110.145 | (none) | Ivory carving: A bowl, with knob handles, the rim decorated with zigzags on top and double half-circles on the side, D. 85mm, supported by 2 nude female figures: these have each an arm round the other and with the free hands support the bowl on their heads. Broken into many frgs and restored. Parts of the 2 free arms are missing, otherwise virtually complete. |
| 304 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Limestone relief. Fragment of, In bad condition. Subject: a man kneeling rt and castrating a bull (?): the bull much damaged: to l. part of a fowl (?) on a large scale. Probably Chaldaean period. |
| 305 | (none) | (none) | B15326 | Limestone relief. Fragment of Showing a wall against which the top of the scaling ladder, and above the feet of a man: part of a siege subject. Found with U. 304 |
| 306 | (none) | (none) | B15279 | Bronze gutter. three-sided, square in section: at one end the sides bent out to a slight shoulder to prevent slipping, at the other end cut down for a spout. When found, encased in wood ash. | |
| 308A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] Bronze, molten lumps of:. In B is embedded a broken bronze axe head, clearly part of the kaj [slag?] being melted down. |
| 310 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Agate bowl. Intact. Lathe-turned, the center lathe-hole filled up with a strong peg. Plain rib moulding on outside. Very beautiful stone. |
| 311 | (none) | (none) | B14991 | Terracotta bust. of a god wearing the horned tiara and heavy curls on shoulders. Good bold modelling, moulded and finished by hand. Eemuriana [written in red pencil] [drawing 1:1] | |
| 312 | (none) | (none) | B14999 | Terracotta relief. Fragment of; upper part (from pudenda to top) of nude female figure with hands on hreasts; heavy necklaces; hair in horizontal coils; pudenda much emphasized. Poorly molded. | |
| 313 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Terracotta relief. Lower part of, From waist down. Draped figure standing front with long fringed skirt, standing on object (?) Arms crossed and hands clearly to breasts. |
| 314 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Ivory comb. Frs of : the top decorated with str lines and zigzags. |
| Media | Media Title | Title | Label | Author | Omeka Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Field Photographs | Field Photographs | GN0003 | GN0003 | (none) | |
| Field Photographs | Field Photographs | GN0004 | GN0004 | (none) | |
| Field Photographs | Field Photographs | GN0004a | GN0004a | (none) | |
| Field Photographs | Field Photographs | GN0005 | GN0005 | (none) | |
| Field Photographs | Field Photographs | GN0006 | GN0006 | (none) | |
| Field Photographs | Field Photographs | GN0007 | GN0007 | (none) | |
| Field Photographs | Field Photographs | GN0008 | GN0008 | (none) | |
| Field Photographs | Field Photographs | GN0009 | GN0009 | (none) | |
| Field Photographs | Field Photographs | GN0010 | GN0010 | (none) | |
| Field Photographs | Field Photographs | GN0011 | GN0011 | (none) | |
| Field Photographs | Field Photographs | GN0012 | GN0012 | (none) | |
| Field Photographs | Field Photographs | GN0013 | GN0013 | (none) | |
| Field Photographs | Field Photographs | GN0014 | GN0014 | (none) | |
| Field Photographs | Field Photographs | GN0015 | GN0015 | (none) | |
| Field Photographs | Field Photographs | GN0018 | GN0018 | (none) | |
| Field Photographs | Field Photographs | GN0019 | GN0019 | (none) | |
| Field Photographs | Field Photographs | GN0020 | GN0020 | (none) | |
| Field Photographs | Field Photographs | GN0021 | GN0021 | (none) | |
| Field Photographs | Field Photographs | GN0026 | GN0026 | (none) | |
| Field Photographs | Field Photographs | GN0028 | GN0028 | (none) | |
| Field Photographs | Field Photographs | GN0029 | GN0029 | (none) | |
| Field Photographs | Field Photographs | GN0030 | GN0030 | (none) | |
| Field Photographs | Field Photographs | GN0030A | GN0030A | (none) | |
| Field Photographs | Field Photographs | GN0031 | GN0031 | (none) | |
| Field Photographs | Field Photographs | GN0032 | GN0032 | (none) |
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Sibling Locations
ES - Room 1 - Room 10 | TTB.16 - Room 11 | TTB.16/17/19 - Room 12 | TTB.16/17 - Room 13 | TTB.19 - Room 14 | TTB.20 - Room 15 | TTB.21 - Room 17 - Room 19 - Room 2 - Room 21 - Room 22 | TTB.31 - Room 23 - Room 25 - Room 3 - Room 32 - Room 33 - Room 34 - Room 35 - Room 36 - Room 5 | TTB.10 - Room 6 - Room 7 - Room 8 | TTB.14 - Room 9 | TTB.13
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Context
Ur > Enunmah | TTB | ES > TTB
References
Woolley, Leonard. (1974) Ur Excavations VI; The Ur III Period, Oxford: Oxford University Press.