Omeka ID: 860     
Transcription:

The S-E Building

Very little of it left. What there was was clearly o Larsa type, burnt brick, set on foundation o mud brick either Larsa (or IIIrd Dynasty) (bricks 035x016) all o poor quality. The SE wall was preserved for some distance outside it, close to the face, we found large numbers o tablets, mostly v small business documents churned out. The rooms were paved w bricks 027 sq., walls never more than 1 course above floor level. A brick drain (no bitumen) ran across the blding. The SW room seems to be an addition. Along the NW part the top o the mud brick was carried up so as to make a small runnel at the foot o the burnt brick. Thus in section

[drawing (section: wall) labeled: burnt brick; mud brick]

but this might be accidental, the rain from the walls eating a trough into the mud bricks.

     
Omeka Label: Ur_Notes_v2_p043c     
BM Volume: 2     
BM Page Number: 40     
Media Title: Woolley's Field Note Cards     
Page Number: 043c     
Volume: v2     
BM Archive Number: 194     
BM Description: SM-South_East_Building     
Omeka Tags: drawing, SM     
Omeka Type: 6     

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SM The meaning of this excavation area abbreviation is not clear, but its location is known to be immediately southeast of the giparu (KP) extending to the ehursag (HT) in the east. Badly preserved remains of a building were found here, distinct from the giparu. On a tentative reconstruction of the ground plan, Woolley suggests the original structure measured some 35x40 meters. The building remains date to the Isin-Larsa/Old Babylonian period and many small tablets recording business transactions were found within. T.C. Mitchell, editing the UE 7 volume published after Woolley's death, notes that many of these tablets actually date to the reigns of Shulgi and Amar-Sin. According to Woolley, some of the tablets were twisted together as if in the process of being recycled to reuse their clay for new tablets. He also suggests, very tentatively and based only on a few minor and out-of-place bricks, that this building was originally a temple to Nin-Ezen. (none)
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