Plate Number: 8a     
BM Number:      
Museum: BM     
Media Title: Field Photographs     
Description: Woolley: TTB Room 6: shewing late unstamped brick pavement (Persian?): corner of raised podium for cultus image: the NW wall, lower part old, upper part late (Persian?) restoration, the face pulled away. (? by Taylor). UE: E-NUN-MAH. Room 2. The Persian pavement; by the hole is the remaining corner of the raised brick base for the cult statue.     
Project: Ur     
Photo Type: GN     
Negative or Positive: Negative     
BM Negative Number: 31     
BM Photo ID: GN0031     
PM U Print No.: 31     
Comments:      
PS Negative: 42647     
Antiquaries Journal:      
Related Media: Ur Excavations IX     
Excavations at Ur:      
Ur of the Chaldees:      
Additional Comments:      
Related People:      
Location Description: TTB, Enunmah     

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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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