Room 8
| Context Title: | Room 8 |
| Context Name (Publication): | Room 81 |
| Context Description: | Chapel1 |
| Context Description: | Room 8, the chapel, (P1. 41b) was paved with mixed bricks, 0.31 m. sq., 0.31 m. X 0.15 m., 0.25 m. sq., 0.25 m. X 0.15 m., etc. The altar was at the west end and stood on a platform raised above the general level of the floor by a single course of bricks; it had four courses of burnt bricks with mud bricks above giving a total height of 0.45 m.; in the wall behind the altar was an incense-hearth 0.60 m. wide X 0.28 m. deep which at a height of 0.45 m. diminished in width to a chimney 0.20 m. across; in the SW corner were the remains of a decorated "table" of mud brick on burnt brick foundations; in the south wall above the dais was a recess 0.13 m. deep. Below the pavement was a large brick tomb LG/80, in the SE corner was an infant's burial in a hutch coffin (cf. PI. 96 a) set only just below pavement level, against the side of LG/80 was a larnax burial LG/79 and elsewhere under the floor were graves LG/76, 77, 78, 81. The east wall of the chapel (and of the house generally) is based on an older buttressed wall connected with that underlying the south side. All the internal walls are original to the house.2 |
| [1] Imported from BM list of contexts. |
| [2] UE 7. p.137 |
Files
| Object | U Number | Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) | Museum Number (BM Registration Number) | Museum Number (UPM B-number) | Description (Catalog Card) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16709 | 31-43-44 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Black hematite. Nude female standing; god in long skirt, right foot tree and poised on a low stool, raises hand in greeting to a standing warrior who is clad in a short tunic. | |
 | 16717 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads: 8 carnelian balls; 1 carnelian barrel; 1 oblong flat agate pendant; 1 fluted gold bead with raised ends. [drawing of fluted gold type] |
| 16719 | (none) | 1931,1010.287 | (none) | Copper Bangle. C-shaped. |
- 3 Objects
| Media | Media Title | Title | Label | Author | Omeka Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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) |
- 2 Media
Child Locations
LG/76 | AHG/170 - LG/77 | AHG/246 - LG/78 | AHG/298 - LG/79 | AHG/312 - LG/80 | AHG/317 - LG/80.5 | AHG/319 - LG/81 | AHG/318