No. 8 Straight Street

Context Title: No. 8 Straight Street     
Context Name (Publication): No. 8 Straight Street1     
Context Description: The building was one of the latest in the main occupation-period of the quarter. The street front, with twenty-one courses of burnt brick, was built up against the corner of No. 10 on one side and against No. 6 on the other, and its foundations lay at least six courses above those of No. 6 and actually above the level of the street as given by the threshold of No. 4. Even so its threshold, originally at 0.85 m. above the present street level (which was that of the main occupation-period) was raised later to 1.00 m. and finally to 1.20 m. In Room 2 there were found traces of a floor corresponding to the highest of these thresholds, but excavation was carried down to or below the earliest floor in each room. The dividing wall between this house and No. 6 had at most points been destroyed to floor level.2     
Culture/Period: Isin-Larsa1     
[1] Imported from BM list of contexts.
[2] UE 7 p.164

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Social Variation in Ancient Mesopotamia: An Architectural and Mortuary Analysis of Ur in the Early S Social Variation in Ancient Mesopotamia: An Architectural and Mortuary Analysis of Ur in the Early Second Millenium B.C. 1990 Luby, Edward Michael (none)
Ur Excavations VII; The Old Babylonian Period Ur Excavations VII; The Old Babylonian Period 1976 Woolley, L. and M. Mallowan (none)
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References

Luby, Edward Michael. (1990) Social Variation in Ancient Mesopotamia: An Architectural and Mortuary Analysis of Ur in the Early Second Millenium B.C., UMI Dissertation Services.

Woolley, L. and M. Mallowan . (1976) Ur Excavations VII; The Old Babylonian Period, Oxford: Oxford University Press.