Woolley's Field Note Cards | Woolley's Field Note Cards
Omeka ID: | 4880 |
Transcription: |
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. |
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) |
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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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