Omeka ID: 4880     
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2[encircled, indicating second page] TTB ES

[continuation of page 152: http://urcrowdsource.org/omeka/items/show/4891] might otherwise be a second drain-foundation. The wall above this is by BURSIN [= Amar-Sin], as shewn by a brick with his stamp in situ in the N side of the 2nd buttress in the upper most course of his building. Above this the wall changes, the face being either slightly set back or slightly projecting : no stamped bricks were detected in situ but against it + fallen from it were very many of KUDURMABUG, + there is no question that this part is his work. The lowest burnt brick [three dots = therefore] ought to be URENGUR [= Ur-Namma]. of the green brick nothing can be said. In the 3rd buttress then was a possibility of a building intermediate between BURSIN + the crooked wall - a projecting single course of rather different looking masonry : but this might be foundation or just bad work.
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Contemporary with the KUDURMABUG wall, judging from - depth o its founds, was a burnt brick wall which ran out at rt. angles [symbol representing the word angels] bet. - drain + - 2nd buttress + joined there w a mud brick wall running SW wch was traced for some distance : the 1st wall did not come right up to the buttressed wall but left a passage between. The purpose o this is not clear.

     
Omeka Label: Ur_Notes_v4_p142     
BM Volume: 4     
BM Page Number: 141     
Media Title: Woolley's Field Note Cards     
Page Number: 142     
Volume: v4     
BM Archive Number: 194     
BM Description: TTB-E5     
Omeka Tags: ES, TTB     
Omeka Type: 27     

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Location Context Title Context Description Description (Modern)
TTB TTB is shorthand for Trial Trench B, one of two trenches excavated in Woolley's first season at Ur in 1922. This one was about 4 meters wide by about 60 meters long and ended up almost entirely within the e-nun-mah, a building that went through many forms over the centuries. The trench was expanded to reveal the building and extra abbreviations were added to it to indicate portions, roughly in directional notation from the main trench. The trench cut the building close to the west corner and TTB.W became the abbreviation for this area beyond the trench itself. TTB.SS and TTB.ES covered the larger area to the south and east. The abbreviation ES was then used in later seasons to refer to the majority of the building and a small portion of the area to the south of it. The enunmah itself was a complicated structure that seems to have changed function from storeroom (originally called the ganunmah) to temple through its long history. Woolley began assigning room numbers within the abbreviation TTB, but these excavation room numbers do not correlate precisely with the published room numbers. (none)
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