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

Omeka ID:	4881

Transcription:	Room 23 TTB Doorstone + setting at SE corner. See diagram elevation. A. surface soil B. NE wall in section: burnt brick C. 5 courses of SE wall: burnt brick D. Hinge stone in situ E E Broken bricks, apparently of a pavement F F Bricks apparently foundation of pavement laid flat but not at rt angles to wall line G G Brickwork 1 brick thick which with H H seems to form a socket (for jamb?) : a brick closing this at the NW end was removed by us. J J rough lining of hinge-pit, matching H H which served double purpose. K K Brickwork corresponding to G G L L Mud brick wall (section) below B B Clearly the hinge stone has nothing to do with any door in the main wall C C; (a) because it is not in the right position, (b) because the hinge-hole is underneath the lowest brick course and the pole therefor[three dots] could not get into it [this paragraph struck trough]

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)