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

Omeka ID:	1260

Transcription:	House 30/B Top level BC Bldng cut through by - TW. It was dated by a tablet found on an unbroken piece of brick pavement at pt F & was dated to Nur-Adad (U.16042) room 9 At A was an inhumation burial [drawing (plan: building) labeled: room numbers] With it [drawing (artifact: labeled) labeled: 662 =IL.50] room 8 ht 043 rim 015 drab clay broken a similar pot was found by itself under the floor at point G

Object	U Number	Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)	Museum Number (BM Registration Number)	Museum Number (UPM B-number)	Description (Catalog Card)
	16042	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay tablet. (broken) Commercial. Date: Year (in which) he bro(ug)ht (a ...throne for Babbar) Nur-Adad. (SAKI 236) [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]

Location	Context Title	Context Description	Description (Modern)
	House 30/B	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., Originally well built and brick paved. Cut through by the Temenos Wall of Nebuchadnezzar.	(none)