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

Omeka ID:	4904

Transcription:	Room 17 11 TTB Here as in room 16 the stone frs lay in a single well defined stratum about 050-070 below the top of the standing brick wall, + close to the wall itself the frs fewer than in the middle of the rooms. There was no floor level below them. In 16, the layer was on the level of the footing of the SE wall, but against this SE wall tr were virtually no frs. The stratum seems to date from a period of filling-in of a platform : and as it comes about along the top of the destroyed mud brick wall the platform in question was probably that connects with the earliest brick wall. The frs. therefore should date (as vases) from the mud wall period + were thrown in in the filling when the mud brick building was replaced by Kudur Mabug's brick structure. In the NE corner of 16, were found [?] frs. of inscr. tablets at about the same level as the stone frs. but rather lower down [entire page stroke 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)