Context Title: Room 3     
Context Name (Publication): Room 31     
Context Description: Room 3 had a threshold raised 0.60 m. above the level of the court but its own floor was only 0.10 m. below the threshold; the floor was mud covered with a thin layer of bitumen over which matting had been spread, its imprint remaining on the bitumen. In the north corner was a terracotta bread-oven of the usual bee-hive shape 0.65 m. in diameter; in the south corner was a platform of burnt brick thickly covered with wood ash in which lay fragments of three large jars; the walls were much smoke-blackened. Nearly the whole of the room was open to the street, there being in the middle of the SE wall a large window whose sill was about 1.00 m. above street level (the mud brickwork on either side of the opening rose for the best part of a metre higher, so that there could be no doubt about the window), and the room was evidently used as a cook-shop.2     
[1] Imported from BM list of contexts.
[2] UE 7 p.154

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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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Room 1 - Room 2 - Room 4 - Room 5 - Room 6