Room 8

Context Title:	Room 8
Context Name (Publication):	Room 8¹
Context Description:	Kitchen¹
Context Description:	Room 8 was only partly excavated and its limits were not found; opposite its door lay part of another "compartment vessel" with two or more compartments (P1. 97 c). There can be little doubt but that Room 7 was a store-room or pantry and Room 8 the kitchen - no other room was equipped for that purpose. The north jamb of the door of Room 8 was formed by a rounded buttress (P1. 35 b) of mud brick over burnt brick foundations which projected into Room 7 and ended in line with the NW jamb of the door from that room to the central court; against it, to the NE, there was a doorway which had been filled up with mud brick and above the filling, at 2.30 m. above floor level, came a mass of burnt brick apparently corbelled out over the room and occupying the door which from this point upwards was open; the brick mass was really the top of the flight of stairs surviving in the wall's thickness.²

[1] Imported from BM list of contexts.

[2] UE 7 p.151

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)