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

Omeka ID:	4918

Transcription:	B TTB Room 23 The stone is older than the wall CC Clearly too the brick work casing is older than the wall CC, as it goes right under it. EE & FF are also anterior to CC. They look like a pavement but are very roughly laid & not at rt angles to the wall lines. There is no brick pavement over the rest of the room but at about their level there is a distinct stratum line in the filling of the room; below this is fairly clean brick clay, above much more mixed soil & ps. of broken brick The floor(?) & the hingestone [three dots = therefore] do not connect with CC which is the oldest burnt-brick wall remaining here. As regards the mud brick walls. No pavement connecting with these walls has been found in any of the rooms 16– 27 23, nor have these rooms got doors: the ~~inference~~ inference is that their floor level was higher & their founds went well below it, & that the floor level was destroyed by the burnt-brick builders who laid their (mud) floors at the same level (or even lower ?) But this ~~apparent~~ burnt-brick pole-casing hardly suits the mudbrick construction of [continues on page 180] [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)