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

Omeka ID:	4908

Transcription:	Room 18 12[encircled] TTB Door in NW wall. The brick wall is standing 6 courses high. Against the W jamb is the hinge stone of URENGUR [= Ur-Namma] with the remains of the brick pole-pit lining 5 courses high, the top of the top brick left being about flush with the top of the 4th course of wall bricks [three dots = therefore] it is impossible to say whether it originally went higher but presumably if there was a brick floor it rested on the top of this, if as is more probable there was a mud floor its level can't be fixed accurately. Across the doorway runs a line of brick one course deep like a threshold (bricks c. 030 long but edge broken): this might well be in connection with the hinge stone: the top of this threshold is flush with the top of the 6th brick course of the wall : it can't therefore be the original floor level. Against the E jamb is another hinge stone of poor limestone, its top 028 below the bottom of the burnt brick : this shd belong to the earliest brick period. [entire paragraph 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)