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

Omeka ID:	4896

Transcription:	SS 1[encircled] TTB [area immediately SE of Enunmah with cross walls abutting the outer SE facade of Enunmah] A rather simple flag paving ran over the whole of this (except in R 2 NW; see plan) It corresponds to a rebuilding of the cross walls, in which, after the 3rd or 4th course from the bottom, there is a very marked change. A brick found low down against the W wall of R 2 is of Kurigalzu, + the upper part of the walling, built of rather small greenish bricks, may well be his work. This rebuilding was visible in all the crosswalls. Also, the NE wall originally had no buttresses: the buttresses come in only with the 2nd period, + actually start one course above the level of the flagged pavement. The blocking of the doors is later still. The plan of the place is clear : a long [?court?] between the two temples, forming an approach, + at two points cut off by double cross walls with gateways through them, the narrow space between the crosswalls being possibly guardrooms, the [?] intervals open courts. [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)