Woolley's Field Note Cards | Woolley's Field Note Cards
Omeka ID: | 4909 |
Transcription: |
Room 19 13[encircled] TTB In the NW wall was a door against the W. jamb of which, in position, was a basalt door-stone of Gimil-Ilishu (photo 18) [= Shu-ilishu, U 420] The top of the stone is 030 below the floor level (which is visible in the photo) On the door-passage side of the stone there is rough brickwork 3 courses high lining the hole of the hinge pole. [entire paragraph struck through] |
Omeka Label: | Ur_Notes_v4_p170 |
BM Volume: | 4 |
BM Page Number: | 169 |
Media Title: | Woolley's Field Note Cards |
Page Number: | 170 |
Volume: | v4 |
BM Archive Number: | 194 |
BM Description: | TTB-Room_19-13 |
Omeka Tags: | TTB |
Omeka Type: | 27 |
Location | Context Title | Context Description | Description (Modern) |
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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) |
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