The discovery of the Ziggurat led Wooley to interpret why the ancients built such structures and it ultimately provide insight into how Enheduanna may have served in the Ziggurat at Ur: To worship the Divine from a spot closer to the heavens.
"They were great solid structures rising up tier above tier, each stage smaller than the one below so that the whole had the effect of a stepped platform; stairways or sloping ramps led from the ground level to the summit, and thereon was set a little shrine dedicated to the city's patron god," wrote Wooley, in The Ziggurat of Ur.
"The amount of labor that went to the building of such a tower was immense, and one wonders why it should have been incurred so regularly in every great town," he continued.
"The explanation seems to be that the Sumerians were originally a hill folk, accustomed, as all hill folk are, to putting up their temples and their altars on "high places" and "on every high hill;" when they moved down into the plain of Mesopotamia, where the flat alluvium stretches unrelieved to the horizon, they felt the need of the "high place" where God could be properly worshipped and so set to and built artificial mountains whereby man might approach nearer to heaven."