Bazaar Alley
| Context Title: | Bazaar Alley |
| Context Name (Publication): | Bazaar Alley |
| Context Description: | Located to the western edge of AH, off of Paternoster Row. |
| Context Description: | From Paternoster Row a flight of brick steps took one to the higher street level of a narrow alley which turning to the right passed the secondary entrance of No. 14 Paternoster Row and so between blank walls to another right-angled turn to the NW. Here there were on the right hand side two buildings closely resembling No. 12 Paternoster Row, with narrow frontages and deep rooms behind, each divided by cross-walls into three compartments (allowing for the destruction of one wall in No. 1), probably shops with magazines behind. A doorway across the alley was followed by another turn to the NE; in the angle was the entrance to a third long narrow building which may have been of a similar nature to the other two but looked more like a converted chapel. Another door closed the alley which beyond it emerged into a square room part of which may well have been occupied by a coster's stall, for along the NE wall, clear of the thoroughfare, there lay on the ground two large clay pots, Type IL. 61, a number of rough pounders and rubbing-stones and a limestone palette c. 0.25 m. sq. A door in the NW wall led out to Baker's Square, a somewhat narrow door cut through the brickwork at a late period when the level of the Square was already beginning to rise. The original floor of the room (which was flush with the contemporary level of the Square) came well up against the mud brickwork of its walls, hiding the burnt-brick foundations; when the levels inside and out had risen by nearly 0.90 m. an L-shaped wall or screen was built against the outer wall of the room to mask the entrance of the alley.1 |
| [1] UE 7 p.155 |
Files
| Object | U Number | Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) | Museum Number (BM Registration Number) | Museum Number (UPM B-number) | Description (Catalog Card) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 16971 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Terracotta relief. Pornographic scene of man copulating with a woman from behind (no vase in front of woman): he holds her by the hair, she stands bending forward, her right hand behind grasping his penis. Most of the man's figure flaked away. ht 009 width 011 Photo |
- 1 Object
| 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
Sibling Locations
Baker's Square - Boundary Street - Broad Street - Church Lane - Graves - House I - House Ia - House II - House III - House IV - House IX - House V - House VI - House VII - House VIII - House X - House XI - House XII - House XIII - House XIV - House XIX - House XV - House XVI - House XVII - House XVIII - House XX - House XXI - House XXII - House XXIII - House XXIV - House XXV - House XXVI - House XXVII - Niche Lane | Shop Street - Old Street - Paternoster Row - Post E - Store Street - Straight Street | Division Street
Child Locations
No. 1 Bazaar Alley - No. 2 Bazaar Alley - No. 3 Bazaar Alley