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

Omeka ID:	4898

Transcription:	SS 4 TTB side of the recess, which is an [?]-buttress space of the ENUNMAH wall, then has been built- up against this a sort of platform of burnt brick resting on mud brick (as is the cross walls) it stands 2 courses high with traces of a 3rd course : of the recess against the SW wall of ENUNMAH (27) : this part of the [?gateway?], N of the passage between the 2 crosswall gates, is not paved: there is pavement in the west half of the [last four words added later] S. half In the S. corner between the cross walls are remains of a second flagged pavement 050 above the main one : this should be of the period of the surface drain running through the gateway? 2nd main court paved throughout : the [?] pisÃ©e structure ran right through it to the [?late?] retaining wall. This rested on compressed earth : its foundations 060 [?above?] the [?] pavement corresponding to a surface of beaten mud [?] right across the [?] on which was [?water?] laid [?] with rubbish above. This ran right over the ruins of the [entire page struck through]

Location	Context Title	Context Description	Description (Modern)
	TTB	TTB is shorthand for Trial Trench B, one of two trenches excavated in Woolley's first season at Ur in 1922. This one was about 4 meters wide by about 60 meters long and ended up almost entirely within the e-nun-mah, a building that went through many forms over the centuries. The trench was expanded to reveal the building and extra abbreviations were added to it to indicate portions, roughly in directional notation from the main trench. The trench cut the building close to the west corner and TTB.W became the abbreviation for this area beyond the trench itself. TTB.SS and TTB.ES covered the larger area to the south and east. The abbreviation ES was then used in later seasons to refer to the majority of the building and a small portion of the area to the south of it. The enunmah itself was a complicated structure that seems to have changed function from storeroom (originally called the ganunmah) to temple through its long history. Woolley began assigning room numbers within the abbreviation TTB, but these excavation room numbers do not correlate precisely with the published room numbers.	(none)