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

Omeka ID:	1251

Transcription:	House 30/A Room 2 top level BC - division bet rooms 1 & 2 is a buttress o- Bursin outer wall : roughly corresponding to this is a projection fm - opposite (late) wall, wch however is not bonded in to- wall But abuts on it & has its founds 5 1/2 courses above - founds o- late wall Just south o- old buttress is a second division : a jamb starting at a depth o 4 1/2 courses below - existing top o- BurSin wall rests on a further 8 courses o brickwork o wch^ the lower 5 courses were right across - room & abut on- lowerst courses o- late (NE) wall : in - face o- latter tr was no sign o bonding at a higher level. Further to- S tr was a projection fm - face o- late wall, a projection o 2 bricks 5 courses fm - bottom, wch looked as if a crosswall had been planned here : if it ever were, it was destroyed by - larnax wch occupied -S. corner.

Location	Context Title	Context Description	Description (Modern)
	House 30/A	Five houses of the Isin-Larsa/Old Babylonian period infringed upon the ruins of the Shulgi Mausoleum and its Amar-Sin annexes. In fact, the houses were built almost directly above its remains and it is curious to think that the large and important mausolea would have faded so completely from memory that houses would be built here 100 - 200 years later. Woolley felt that the Elamite destruction had been severe enough to accomplish this. The southwest wall of the mausolea remained to a height of 2 meters while the northeast wall was substantially ruined and it is this northeastern side that is most heavily built over. Woolley excavated these houses quickly in his effort to uncover the larger Ur III structure and numbered them as one unit, House 30. Later he separated the plans into individual houses, labeled House 30 A-E. All were badly denuded and few finds came from them, though typically there were also graves beneath the floors that are better recorded. These and drainpipes often disturbed parts of the ruined mausolea below., built on a slope, thus has stronger lower walls	(none)