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

Omeka ID:	1264

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BCG/6
House 30 D BC
Almost directly in front o - main door o -
BurSin SE annexe & on - level o - top o - 
pedestal in front o - jamps, a burial under
bits o broken pot lying NWxSE. at - NW end
an inverted bowl w a hole in - bottom like a
drain, diam 050 ht 040

By - grave 1) [drawing (artifact: pot) labeled 662 = IL50] drab clay ht 047 rim 014
2) [drawing (artifact: pot) labeled 650 607 = IL 41c] drab clay ht 028 rim 009
3) similar to (2)
4) [drawing (artifact: pot) labeled 588 = IL 71] drab clay ht 022 rim 010 base 006 
5, 6, 7) similar to (4)
8) drab clay saucer diam 018 ht 0055 base 006 [drawing (artifact: pot) labeled 43 RC23 = IL5b]
9) bowl o dark greenish grey clay ht 008 rim 017 base 005 [drawing (artifact: pot) labeled RC2 = IL2a]
10) like (4)

Omeka Label:	Ur_Notes_v2_p307
BM Volume:	2
BM Page Number:	300

Media Title:	Woolley's Field Note Cards
Page Number:	307
Volume:	v2
BM Archive Number:	194
BM Description:	BC-House30_D
Omeka Tags:	BC, drawing, House 30
Omeka Type:	6

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Location	Context Title	Context Description	Description (Modern)
	House 30/D	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.	(none)