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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 867 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Fragment from base of large clay cone. Beginnings of 1st 14 lines of 1st column of Kudur-Mabug inscription. Duplicate of U.188. |
| 866B | (none) | (none) | (none) | (A)Fragment from base of large clay cone. Ends of 10 lines from middle of Column I, beginnings of 5 lines of column II, Kudur-Mabug cone. Duplicate of U.188. (B) Fragment from base of same cone[ref. U.866A], joins U.866A. Both probably fragments from U.863. |
| 866A | (none) | (none) | (none) | (A)Fragment from base of large clay cone. Ends of 10 lines from middle of Column I, beginnings of 5 lines of column II, Kudur-Mabug cone. Duplicate of U.188. (B) Fragment from base of same cone [ref. U.866A], joins U.866A. Both probably fragments from U.863. |
| 866 | (none) | (none) | (none) | (none) |
| 865 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Fragment from base of large clay cone. Beginning of 19 lines from middle of Column I, of Kudur-Mabug cone. Duplicate of U.188. |
| 864 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Fragment from base of large clay cone. 1st column, last 8 lines; 2nd column, beginnings 6 lines. Kudur-Mabug, duplicate of U.188. |
| 863 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Half of shaft of large clay cone. Half-lines of Kurur-Mabug's cone inscription. Dup. of U188. See U866 for fragments of same cone. |
| 862 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Broken base and shaft of large clay cone. On shaft, beginnings of 25 lines. On base, first col nearly complete, 2nd col, 8 lines and parts of lines Kudur-Mabug, duplicate of U188. |
| 861 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Base of large clay cone. Two col. inscription, complete, of Kudor-Mabug, dup. of 188. |
| 838 | (none) | 1923,1110.1 | (none) | Basalt hinge-stone. In bad condition. Inscribed with the name of GIMILSIN. |
| 835 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cone. of dark brown stone. Broken below. A hole runs up the centre, and a second is pierced from the side to beyond the middle for a pin to make the cone fast to the peg running up the central hole. On one side scratches, perhaps relics of an inscription. [Handwritten note corrects type to plumb bob] [drawing 1:1] |
| 792 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Shell rings. 28 in all, some only half-made from the shell core, some complete. All found together about 1.5m down against the outer face of the boundary wall of E-NUN-MAH. SW side near W. corner. |
| 791 | (none) | 1923,1110.144 | (none) | Glass bowl. Fragment of in heavy molded glass in opaque white and yellow on translucent pale green. Section [referencing drawing]. [drawing 1:1] |
| 7907 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Kohl stick case. Ivory. Plain tube rounded at base. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card] |
| 790 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Subject: man fighting lion(?) : traces of 1 column inscription erased. Poor work. |
| 788 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Terracotta relief. Upper part of female figure, nude, with long curls and hands clasped below breasts. [drawing 1:1] |
| 787 | (none) | 1923,1110.48 | (none) | Human head. Limestone = fragment of = for inlay, or for a figure carved in another material. Hollow behind, the eyes were inlaid. [The following does not refer to an animal, but is likely an abbreviation for catalog. No further context.] Cat. [drawing 1:1] |
| 786 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Ivory comb. Fragments of Like U.785 but without rosettes. |
| 785 | (none) | (none) | B15277 | Ivory comb. Broken. Period, Nebuchadrezzar. [drawing 1:1] |
| 776 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Black steatite. 2 fig of adorants approaching a god l. with crescent above: behind, 4 small fig. in 2 registers: good work. |
| 775 | (none) | (none) | B15248 | Carnelian cylinder seal. Archer in chariot driving rt. shoots at kneeling archer l. Late style with a good deal of drill point work, but not bad. ? 8th century. | |
| 77 | (none) | 1923,1110.136 | (none) | Green glazed pottery stand. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 756 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Inscribed stone fragment. Portions of signs from bottom line of inscription. Placed in IN/No. 1. |
| 755 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Fragment of tablet. New Babylonian contract mentions "white fishes" [Cuneiform]. Placed in IN/No. 2. |
| 744 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Fragment of dolomite statue. Probably from shoulder. Last four lines of single column inscription of a King of Ur. Length of inscription 50mm |
| Media | Media Title | Title | Label | Author | Omeka Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ur Excavations VI; The Ur III Period | Ur Excavations VI; The Ur III Period | 1974 | Woolley, Leonard | (none) |
| 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) |
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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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Ur > Enunmah | TTB | ES > TTB
References
Woolley, Leonard. (1974) Ur Excavations VI; The Ur III Period, Oxford: Oxford University Press.