Omeka ID: 1244     
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Room 7 top level BC House 30/A A small room entirely taken up by a corbel-vaulted brick tomb o which - floor was 220 & - top 070 below - level o- floor o- top bldng (latter an inside measurement) [UE7 shows tomb to be LG/154] - Door was to - SW & had been opened & tr was nothing in - grave , o wch only - doorway was perfectly preserved, - rest o- not fallen in.

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Omeka Label: Ur_Notes_v2_p287     
BM Volume: 2     
BM Page Number: 280     
Media Title: Woolley's Field Note Cards     
Page Number: 287     
Volume: v2     
BM Archive Number: 194     
BM Description: CLW_BC     
Omeka Tags: BC, House 30     
Omeka Type: 6     

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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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