5http://www165.123.244.137/location/5/AreaUrContext TitleAH Site | AHContext Name (Excavation)AH; Abraham's HousingContext Name (Publication)AH SiteContext DescriptionIn the southeast portion of the mound of Ur, Woolley excavated a large horizontal extent of domestic space roughly 115 x 85m. near the surface he found scattered Neo-Babylonian and Kassite remains and intrusive graves of the late periods but he did not publish these in detail nor are there any extant notes covering them. Instead, Woolley's main goal was to uncover the best preserved floorplans of houses. These he found several meters down, houses of the Isin-Larsa/Old Babylonian period. Because the Old Babylonian period was typically that associated with the potential time of Abraham, Woolley used the abbreviation AH (Abraham's Housing) to refer to this excavation area. In the course of excavation of the Isin-Larsa/Old Babylonian levels Woolley numbered 27 'houses,' or excavation units. He renumbered the houses for publication based on the overall plan, preserved walls, and doors onto streets. In this way he showed there were 52 individual houses within his 27 excavation areas. However, houses were frequently altered throughout period, as families would knock out walls or block up doors, and thus true house numbers are difficult to establish. Woolley mentions phases of rebuilding, but states that he sought the best preserved floor plan and published the excavation of a particular house based on that plan alone. In some cases he noted deeper remains that may have gone back to the Ur III period. These levels he partially uncovered as he excavated graves beneath the Larsa period floors. A great deal of baked brick was in use for walls of the Isin-Larsa/Old Babylonian period. Some houses used it in the lowest portion of a wall, but others used it for entire walls up to 3 meters in height. Town planning was not evident, as streets tended to wander in narrow and winding paths. Corners where streets met were often rounded, leading Woolley to surmise that this was to prevent problems with laden donkeys catching their wares on corners. Many houses had a domestic chapel within, often with family burials beneath the floor. Communal chapels were also noted, at least four being identified in the area. Finally, Woolley believed that some buildings were specifically used for commercial activities (shops), though this is difficult to prove.4538http://www165.123.244.137/location/4538/Unit AH Site | AHSeason Number09: 1930-1931Culture/PeriodOld BabylonianContext TitleHouse IIIContext Name (Excavation)House IIIHouse 3Context Name (Publication)No. 1 Church Lane No. 1 Straight StreetHouse III correlates with published houses No. 1 Church Lane and No. 1 Straight StreetContext DescriptionExcavation designation for a portion of area AH that was eventually published as No. 1 Church Lane and No. 1 Straight Street. It was also called the Pa-Sag or Hendur-Sag chapel. This space was identified as a neighborhood or wayside chapel at the NW edge of Carfax.Woolley did not leave behind a map of excavation house units. Field notes give some indication of where they were located and show the progress of excavation across area AH. Most excavation house designations (expressed in Roman numerals) contained two published houses (expressed by street name and door number), The excavation house units are here described in terms of the published houses they mostly or completely contained but the exact limits of each excavated house unit is not completely known.