Woolley's Field Note Cards | Woolley's Field Note Cards
Omeka ID: | 354 |
Transcription: |
PG 777. Bottom at 7.75 frm T.W. Bank at 10 in frm TW. reclining on a sharp incline PG. 12.36. Shd be in the Bank. |
Omeka Label: | Ur_Notes_v1_p167 |
BM Volume: | 1 |
BM Page Number: | 177 |
Media Title: | Woolley's Field Note Cards |
Page Number: | 167 |
Volume: | v1 |
BM Archive Number: | 194 |
BM Description: | PG_777-PG_1236 |
Omeka Tags: | PG1236, PG777 |
Omeka Type: | 2 |
Location | Context Title | Context Description | Description (Modern) |
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![]() | 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) |
![]() | PG/777 | A built chamber tomb with a collapsed dome, it had been robbed in antiquity but some artifacts remained along the walls. The collapsed roof of this tomb was first seen in Trial Trench E but the grave was fully excavated after the trial trenches had been opened into a larger area. This led to the discovery of a small trenched area next to the chamber that contained three skeletons, and an approach or dromos that contained another. These Woolley took to be the guards of the tomb in a small 'death pit'. There were two chambers inside the tomb, and the outer held the remains of four more people, possibly servants, while the inner may have held the royal personage. | (none) |
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Ur >> Royal Cemetery | PG >> Private Graves 1201-1300 >> PG/1236
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