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

Omeka ID:	4893

Transcription:	TTB W Opposite the W. corner of ENUNMAH a pit was sunk against the S side of the big drain (here no longer Nebuchadnezzar) to a total depth of [blank space]. The drain founds were at -050 Below these was hard close packed brick earth, reddish grey, containing but little pottery at -150 the soil was more reddish clay certainly rammed down artificially, containing frs. of mud brick + some pottery, nothing [?] : it was in this stratum that a carnelian cylinder seal was found. At circa -2.20 was grey sand containing many small shells, this was tightly packed but crumbled when disturbed. In its lower levels came a little plain pottery, some ashes + broken mud brick. At -320 was a thin layer of [entire page struck through]

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)