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

Omeka ID:	4911

Transcription:	Room 20 14 [encircled] TTB NE door [must be NW door] The hinge-stone found in position cannot belong to the mud brick wall which has been hacked away to make room for it: it has been sunk to some depth below the floor level to which it belongs, but this floor connects with the burnt brick walls. The floor was of mud + much destroyed: there seems to have been a brick threshold across the doorway The pit in which the hinge stone was sunk was partly lined with burnt brick to keep it open for the hinge pole : the mud floor ran over the top of this rough masonry. A brick with a hole through it served as a socket for the wooden doorjamb, which was also propped with brick work The mud brick threshold of the Nebuchodnessor pavement ran over the whole thing, about 050 above the mud floor (which comes against the 3rd-4th course in the burnt brick wall. Photo 20 [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)