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

Omeka ID:	4916

Transcription:	Room 15 TTB All but the NE wall rest on mud brick. Of the SW wall there remains at most 4 courses of burnt brick (0333- x 008 x 0033), 7 on the SE, +1 on the NW. Below this are 6 or 7 courses of mud brick (033 x 008) with a little rubbish between the 2 materials. At the NE angle the mud brick has been cut off to a flat end + a new burnt brick angle abuts on this In the NW wall of mud brick is embedded a burnt brick (which didn't come to the wall face) Against the SW wall was a terracotta drain formed of cylinders diam. 040 ht: 027 with a raised collar but no socket : it went down to below the founds of the burnt brick wall. By it were found a quantity of minute crystal pebble beads (mostly found in a broken jar) + a short string of larger paste + stone beads [entire paragraph struck through] Photo 11

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)