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

Omeka ID:	4910

Transcription:	Room 19 13[encircled] TTB NW door Doorstone of GIMIL ILISHU [= Shu-ilishu, U 420] inscription (Photo 18). Part of the pole-hole casing remains coming up to the top of the 4th course of the wall bricks Over the doorway there are traces of a mud floor several times re-whitewashed [three dots = therefore] it comes about the top of the 6th course of the brick wall + does not run over the top of the wall (which only stands 6 courses high) so it probably represents one of the habitation periods of this room : another floor level was discernible in the room against the 3 1/2 course, but in the doorway this can't be made out. The whitewashed floor is only 003 below the double mud-brick step of Nebuchadnezzar. The mud brick runs right under the doorway without a break [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)