Omeka ID: 1255     
Transcription:

House 30/B Top level BC

In room (7) tr was a second pavement 020 below -pt & in -center o this, bet. - jambs o- NE side, tr was - lower part o a pot let into - floor as if for a surface drain

Room 9 has its pavement carefully raised at - SW end (i.e. at - SW end where broken off by TW). W a raised brick edging along - edge o- raised part : just beyond this tr was a larger pot sunk in - ground, its top broken edge flush w a lower floor level, as if for a drain or basin

Room 7 bet. - 2 floor levels was a baked tablet of Gimil Sin & a copper arrowhead

To - NE o- house runs a street?. - Reveal in - wall at - N corner wd shew t - space without internal walls to - NW belonged to - house & t [therefore symbol] - staircase cd h been taken up on this side against - outer face o- wall in wood.

     
Omeka Label: Ur_Notes_v2_p298     
BM Volume: 2     
BM Page Number: 291     
Media Title: Woolley's Field Note Cards     
Page Number: 298     
Volume: v2     
BM Archive Number: 194     
BM Description: BC-House30_B     
Omeka Tags: BC, House 30     
Omeka Type: 6     

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Location Context Title Context Description Description (Modern)
House 30/B 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., Originally well built and brick paved. Cut through by the Temenos Wall of Nebuchadnezzar. (none)
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Excavation Context: Ur >> Mausoleum Site | BC >> House 30/B


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