Omeka ID: 1242     
Transcription:

Room 3 top level BC House 30/A [drawing (plan: building, parital) labeled: numbers] a baked clay tablet was found at X, 150 below - top o- walls : Gimil Sin U.16004 1), 2) a pair o drab clay bowls diam 026 ht 011, [drawing (artifact: pot) labeled: IL33 228] a similar bowl inverted over [?bones?] containing bones o infants : the 2 pots were on level o- foundations o- piece o late cross wall close to which they lay 3) flush w- top o- latest extant wall was an infant's burial : a shallow bowl too broken to be typed was inverted over a spouted [drawing (artifact: pot) labeled: 292 IL38] drab clay jar ht 027 rim 022 outer rim 027 foot 011 , thus burial - jar was inverted in bowl like (1) & (2) above. (room 7)

     
Omeka Label: Ur_Notes_v2_p285     
BM Volume: 2     
BM Page Number: 278     
Media Title: Woolley's Field Note Cards     
Page Number: 285     
Volume: v2     
BM Archive Number: 194     
BM Description: CLW_BC     
Omeka Tags: BC, drawing, House 30, plan, U.16004     
Omeka Type: 6     

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Object U Number Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) Museum Number (BM Registration Number) Museum Number (UPM B-number) Description (Catalog Card)
16004 (none) (none) (none) Clay Tablet. Business document. Date: Year in which Gimil-sin, King of Ur, built of the god...of Gis-HU (9th year.) (cf. SAKI. p.234, note 1) [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
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Location Context Title Context Description Description (Modern)
House 30/A Five houses of the Isin-Larsa/Old Babylonian period infringed upon the ruins of the Shulgi Mausoleum and its Amar-Sin annexes. In fact, the houses were built almost directly above its remains and it is curious to think that the large and important mausolea would have faded so completely from memory that houses would be built here 100 - 200 years later. Woolley felt that the Elamite destruction had been severe enough to accomplish this. The southwest wall of the mausolea remained to a height of 2 meters while the northeast wall was substantially ruined and it is this northeastern side that is most heavily built over. Woolley excavated these houses quickly in his effort to uncover the larger Ur III structure and numbered them as one unit, House 30. Later he separated the plans into individual houses, labeled House 30 A-E. All were badly denuded and few finds came from them, though typically there were also graves beneath the floors that are better recorded. These and drainpipes often disturbed parts of the ruined mausolea below., built on a slope, thus has stronger lower walls (none)
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Excavation Context: Ur >> Mausoleum Site | BC >> House 30/A


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