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

Omeka ID:	1250

Transcription:	House 30/A Room 2 top level BC - Crosswall o - late period rested on earth, an irregular layer about 030 thick : below this came a mass o fallen brickwork, all o it - bricks o- old construction w occasional stamps o Bur Sin Under this fallen rubble, at this pt 080 thick, tr was against - SE wall, at a depth o 200 fm - existing wall top, a pavement o bricks set in mud mortar & thickly coated above w bitumen. At 125 fm - SE wall it broke away in a str. line & tr was a drop o almost 020 w a fresh brick pavement w no bitumen running on for 190, where it too broke away : but 200 fm - SW wall tr were remains seeming to shew t- higher level pavement had run on over - whole area & had [?severely?] sunk, - been destroyed, over - main part o- room

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)