Editing Lagash (section)

====The 3HB Building====
Three building levels were discovered and 3HB III is the earliest and most well-preserved level. 3HB II and 3HB I shared the same layout with 3HB III. All three levels have a central niched-and-buttressed building which is surrounded by a low enclosure wall with unknown height.<ref name="Ashby 2017 86" />
{| class="wikitable"
! Building Level
! Building Material<ref name="Ashby 2017 86" />
! Occupation Period<ref name="Ashby 2017 86" />
! Notes<ref name="Ashby 2017 86" />
|-
|3HB III
|Plano-convex bricks, mud plaster
|ED IIIB

([[Eannatum]]’s rule or later)
|Dimensions:

3HB Building: 24 x 20m

Enclosure Wall:

approximately 31m x 25m
|-
|3HB II
|Plano-convex bricks, mud plaster
|ED IIIB – Late Akkadian
|
|-
|3HB I
|Plano-convex bricks, mud plaster
|Late – Post-Akkadian
|
|}
[[File:3-D reconstruction of Area B by Dcldeobi.png|thumb|321x321px|3-D reconstruction of Area B by Dcldeobi (Front)]]

An excavator believes that the 3HB Building was a “kitchen temple” that aimed at meeting some of the god’s demands.<ref name="Hansen" >Donald P. Hansen, "Royal building activity at Sumerian Lagash in the Early Dynastic Period", Biblical Archaeologist, vol. 55, pp. 206–11, 1992</ref> Alternatively, it has been suggested that the building was a shrine in the Bagara complex as it shared more similarities with other temples than kitchens in terms of layout, features and contents.<ref name="Ashby 2017 86" />