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

Omeka ID:	4899

Transcription:	SS TTB In the first big recess of the wall there was found lying face down on a mud level, certainly an original surface, a bronze [?runnel?] rectangular in section [drawing (artifact: section of bronze object)] + [?] long embedded in wood : it was entirely covered with heavy wood ash. It lay almost at [?] [?] with the main wall face thus [drawing (plan of find spot)] The layer of burnt wood beams + plants, ran right across the [?] space x-y [see drawing], 003-015 above the floor level of beaten mud earth. This floor is on the level of the second [?] of the wall, corresponding to the projection in the face of the latter : it is of course also [?] [?] with the walls x & y The bronze was absolutely rotten. A second smaller example was found near it in good condition (U ) [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)