House III

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Context Title:	House III
Context Name (Excavation):	House III House 3
Context Name (Publication):	No. 1 Church Lane No. 1 Straight Street House III correlates with published houses No. 1 Church Lane and No. 1 Straight Street
Context Description:	Excavation 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.¹
Season Number:	09: 1930-1931
Culture/Period:	Old Babylonian

[1] 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.

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U Number	Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)	Museum Number (BM Registration Number)	Museum Number (UPM B-number)	Description (Catalog Card)
16065	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay tablet UET/V:416 [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16332	(none)	1935,0112.110	(none)	Duck weight Soapstone(?) . Type VI.
16343	(none)	(none)	(none)	Mace head. Pear-shaped. Fluted Limestone
16345	31-43-356	(none)	(none)	Terracotta Chariot. Model. Cab with high back on which are figures in relief. 1 wheel only remains. Back of cab - facing yoke pole - has the figure in relief of a bull god. - bull like from from the waist down, human above. Figure is nude & wears a high conical hat and grasps a vertical pole in both hands. Bust full face, arms and lower half of body in profile. Above the figure is an upper register with a crescent supported by 2 oblique sticks and solar disk similarly supported - both in relief. 2 holes perforated horizontally through top of cap: Hole in front of cab to hold yoke pole 0013 in diam.
16345A	31-43-280	(none)	(none)	(none)
16346	(none)	1931,1010.512	(none)	Terracotta Bed. 4 legs. Criss-cross pattern showing string of bed. [drawing 1:2]
16535	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay tablet. Commercial. Date: year in which Gan-Har was destroyed. Dungi 21 (SAKI 230). [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]