303 | 1923,1110.145
| Technique: | Manufacture >> Handmade >> Carved |
| Description (Catalog Card): | Ivory carving: A bowl, with knob handles, the rim decorated with zigzags on top and double half-circles on the side, D. 85mm, supported by 2 nude female figures: these have each an arm round the other and with the free hands support the bowl on their heads. Broken into many frgs and restored. Parts of the 2 free arms are missing, otherwise virtually complete.1 |
| Find Context (Catalog Card): | T.T.B 21 |
| Material (Catalog Card): | Ivory2 |
| Measurement (Catalog Card): | Total ht. 019 Diam 0085 |
| U Number: | 303 |
| Museum: | British Museum |
| Object Type: | Tools and Equipment >> Miscellany and Unidentified >> Ladles and spoons |
| Season Number: | 01: 1922-1923 |
| Description (Modern): | Ivory ladle or cosmetic box; two projections and handle in the form of naked boys with upraised arms. |
| Material: | Organic Remains >> Tooth >> Ivory |
| Museum Number (BM Big Number): | 116544 |
| Museum Number (BM Registration Number): | 1923,1110.145 |
| Notes: | lower courtyard of E-nun-mah over rm 15 of Kassite building3 |
| [1] Woolley's description |
| [2] Material as described by Woolley |
| [3] Typed Transcript? |
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| 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) |
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| Media | Media Title | Title | Label | Author | Omeka Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | British Museum Photo Negatives | British Museum Photo Negatives | (none) | (none) | (none) |
| Excavations at Ur of the Chaldees | Excavations at Ur of the Chaldees | 1923 | Woolley, C. L. | (none) |
| Field Photographs | Field Photographs | GN0022 | GN0022 | (none) | |
| UPM Field Photo numbers | UPM Field Photo numbers | (none) | (none) | (none) |
| Ur Excavations IX; The Neo-Babylonian and Persian Periods | Ur Excavations IX; The Neo-Babylonian and Persian Periods | 1962 | Woolley, L. and Mallowan, Max | (none) |
| Woolley's Catalog Cards | Woolley's Catalog Cards | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:22 Page:52 | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:22 Page:52 | (none) |
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Context
Ur >> Enunmah | TTB | ES >> TTB
References
British Museum Photo Negatives, .
Woolley, C. L. (1923) Excavations at Ur of the Chaldees, .