Room 18

Context Title:	Room 18
Context Name (Publication):	Room 18¹
Context Description:	Room 18 (P1. 37 b) (its ruins much confused by Kassite walls of burnt brick running across it) had its doorway into the court occupied by brick steps which gave a total height of 0.60 m. and must have led to a late floor level, for there was an older brick pavement 0.15 m. above that of the court. Inside the door the stairs were continued by a narrower flight (0.40 m. wide) of which three treads remained, resting on a block of brickwork built against the SW wall and corbelled out behind in a manner which shows that it was constructed against steeply-sloped beams - presumably the higher treads were of wood, resting on the beams, and the stairs turned at the corner of the room and went up against its NW wall and perhaps again against the NE wall to emerge on a gallery above the court. There was a shallow niche in the (late) NE wall.²

[1] Imported from BM list of contexts.

[2] UE 7 p.153

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)