Omeka ID: 4891     
Transcription:

1[encirled] TTB ES

Pavement runs along outside of wall; of broken + odd cut early bricks, many with the double fingermark forming a pathway 1.60 wide from the wall face. This is in connection with a wall of green bricks the face of which can only be judged from the edge of the pavement : this wall stands at present 080 high + is of reddish clay. On this is built a wall of dark grey mud bricks rising to 1.50 above pavement level from the 2nd buttress to the broken N. end : it lines up with the green brick wall, at least approximately + has no [?salients?] but runs str. along this front line of this latter buttress. The burnt brick + bitumen drain is cut down into, or built into , the mud brick, + stepped down in front to get better footing : there can be no doubt that it was part of a wall otherwise built in mud brick, perhaps that of which we have the remains, perhaps of one now not traceable. Anyhow the burnt brick walls are built up against it. In the 2nd buttress from the N, the bottom course of burnt brick for part of its length may be older than the upper part : at - N end of - buttress there are 3 bricks much thinner than those of - rest o - course (see photo [empty space]) To this may correspond the lower courses in the middle of the 3rd buttress which rest on dark grey mud brick + are differently aligned from + project beyond the rest of the buttress, lie deeper + shew signs of a break in bond (see photo [blank space]) : this, though built without bitumen [continues on page 142: http://urcrowdsource.org/omeka/items/show/4880]

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Omeka Label: Ur_Notes_v4_p152     
BM Volume: 4     
BM Page Number: 151     
Media Title: Woolley's Field Note Cards     
Page Number: 152     
Volume: v4     
BM Archive Number: 194     
BM Description: TTB-ES     
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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