Woolley's Field Note Cards | Woolley's Field Note Cards

Omeka ID:	5734

Transcription:	PG 1236 A1, - NE chamber, No A, had been entered through - roof b robbers who had dug a hole over - top o this chamber & - end o- dromos & had pulled up - number o- roofing stones wch they piled at the bottom o the shaft over - dromos - Hole as found by us was 270 long, but part o - roof may h fallen after - robbers' raid: - bulk o - stones lay below but - floor had been sweeped clean of offerings before they fell and on -floor were found [?] only a few lapis beads, some frs of inlay from an ostrich shell, & (a bit above - floor) a copper libation vase. - Full ht o - chamber was 200 but - w o- stone walls had caused a sinkage a t floor was convex. - Floor was a firm hard cement & - walls were plastered w - same cement, fairly smooth & 001 thick on - average: - fallen frs o this mixed w - damp soil had formed a very hard conglomerate over - floor. - Walls sloped slightly inwards from t base 025 vertical ht o 130: then - shrine room corbelled out, laid not horizontally but on a slope giving almost a mirror effect, tall at 200 ht - space between was only 040: thus

Location	Context Title	Context Description	Description (Modern)
	PG/1236	A large stone-built chamber (limestone rubble) with 4 inner rooms. In this it is very similar to the layout of PG/779. A looter's hole had caused a collapse at one end and much damage throughout the tomb, but architecturally this large chamber was better preserved than many others. Contents, however, were meager owing to ancient looters. Woolley believed this had been the tomb of a king, with attendants in some of the chambers. He traced the side of the pit more than 7 meters above the chamber and believed that a mud brick building above that had been a kind of chapel for rituals after the burial.	(none)