Room 12

Context Title:	Room 12
Context Name (Publication):	Room 12¹
Context Description:	Vestry¹
Context Description:	Behind the chapel there was the usual tiny room (12) ;2 it had a clay floor in which, almost flush with the surface, were burials of infants in clay bowls (P1. 39 b); the doorway from this room to Room 9 was not original but had been cut through the burnt and mud bricks of the wall. In the doorway from Room 11 there was an added threshold 0.45 m. high, corresponding to a high late floor-level of clay, in the centre of which was a rectangular trough paved with bricks and edged with bricks set upright on end; a large nether grindstone and several upper grindstones were found on this late floor. The original floor, 0.45 m. lower, was also of clay; in it was a pot buried with its rim flush with the surface and on it was a hemispherical clay bowl. Possibly food for the chapel ritual was prepared here.²

[1] Imported from BM list of contexts.

[2] UE 7 p.152

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)