Room 3

Context Title: Room 3     
Context Name (Publication): Room 31     
Context Description: Kitchen1     
Context Description: Room 3 was the kitchen. The floor was of clay and broken bricks; in the north corner was a raised brick base at least seven courses high with a ledge running along its front; this must have been the cooking-range: close to it, near the NW wall, was an oval enclosure of bricks set on end with their tops just above floor level making an open fire-place which was found filled with wood ash: by this again was a drain made of pots set one above another with their bottoms knocked out. In the south corner the floor was thick with ashes and here and on the SE wall near the door the bricks were liberally blackened with soot. At 0.28 m. below the mixed floor were remains of an earlier pavement of burnt bricks, and the cooking-range went down to this.2     
[1] Imported from BM list of contexts.
[2] UE 7 p.122

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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

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