Woolley's Field Note Cards | Woolley's Field Note Cards

Omeka ID:	5729

Transcription:	Pg 1236 A patch o good smooth [?linear?] floor, identical in appearance w - floor plaster of pg 775 meaning 200 across from NE to SW, w its SE edge corresponding accurately w - SE edge o - masonry o - tomb chamber below, long at 430 above - top o - standing wall o that tomb chamber= a wall limiting it and just fill - space to - side o - shaft cutting into - wall, though traces of it were left in rotten mud brick, was too perished to measure: - NW side o - pavement was cut away so its [undecipherable] remains underneath In E Corner was 640 from - E corner o - status chamber itself.

Location	Context Title	Context Description	Description (Modern)
	PG/1236	A large stone-built chamber (limestone rubble) with 4 inner rooms. In this it is very similar to the layout of PG/779. A looter's hole had caused a collapse at one end and much damage throughout the tomb, but architecturally this large chamber was better preserved than many others. Contents, however, were meager owing to ancient looters. Woolley believed this had been the tomb of a king, with attendants in some of the chambers. He traced the side of the pit more than 7 meters above the chamber and believed that a mud brick building above that had been a kind of chapel for rituals after the burial.	(none)