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

Omeka ID:	5733

Transcription:	Pg 1236 Chamber C D Completely plundered= on - floor were (at - SE end) quantities of beads, gold lapis & carnelian, 2 [?tiers?] of thin gold foil from a sceptre with impressed designs also numerous clay pots, all broken one at - least was - thin-walled ribbed bottle type and o - type [drawing (artifact:pot) TO XXXIII] ht 028 rim 010 ht wire at least 5 example & one or two apparently similar but much larger and [drawing(artifact:pot)] To XVI also an alabaster (?) ~~box~~ jar lid of a (broken) rough [undecipherable] bowl

Media Title:	Woolley's Field Note Cards
Page Number:	158
BM PG Number:	PG1236
BM Archive Number:	194
Omeka Tags:	drawing, PG1236, pot typology, Royal Cemetery
Omeka Type:	28
Grave # Range:	1130-1237

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)