EH Site | EH
| Context Title: | EH Site | EH |
| Context Name (Excavation): | E-Hur-Sag1 |
| Context Name (Publication): | EH Site |
| Context Description: | Area EH is located within the Neo-Babylonian temenos wall south of the giparu. There are many other area designations given to parts of this space (such as DP and LR), but EH overall refers to the interior extent of the SW temenos wall from the south corner almost to the Nebuchadnezzar gate and extending east to the line of Pit F. Walls in the area were scattered and difficult to follow, so Woolley established a grid covering at least 55x100 meters in 5x5 squares. The grid is not well documented but publication shows that Woolley began numbers to the east, increasing to the west, and letters to the south, increasing to the north; square 1,A therefore sits in the SE corner -- 11,T in the NW. The abbreviation EH stands for E-Hur-sag but the building of that name does not lie within this excavation zone. Woolley did not believe that the building to the east of this area (partially dug by H.R. Hall in 1919) was the e-hur-sag, the palace of Shulgi, despite bricks with the inscription of the building being found there. Instead he called that building Hall's Temple (HT) and sought the palace in many other places inside the temenos. He eventually conceded that HT was indeed the e-hur-sag and published EH without reference to the abbreviation's original meaning. The area Woolley called EH was the area Hall called the 'tomb mound' because it was relatively high ground in which he found a number of graves. Woolley showed that these were the remains of graves beneath the floors of houses dating from the Isin-Larsa to Kassite periods. EH in this time was likely an extension of the domestic area EM. In the Ur III period there appear to have been larger public buildings here, but their remains were spotty at best. Tablets from this area and area EM show that the residents of the domestic quarter in the Isin-Larsa/Old Babylonian period were likely temple workers. |
| Season Number: | 03: 1924-1925 |
| Season Number: | 04: 1925-1926 |
| [1] named for the ehursag but does not contain that building itself |
| Object | U Number | Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) | Museum Number (BM Registration Number) | Museum Number (UPM B-number) | Description (Catalog Card) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 6001 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Rectangular label. Black steatite. Inscribed with text in 6 vertical columns on side, 8 on other. Pierced vertices. Dated Shilgi year 36 (=48). Basket of tablets: barley issued from the wood-store; cash from the income office, barley balance presented to the farmer; sesame seed; thread; dates brought in and balance of interest. There are 11 clay tablets, 1 total of gifts. The 13th month after the building of Duramati. H.C. In text: 9h3 [drawing 1:1] |
| 6002 | (none) | (none) | B16287 | Cylinder seal. Grey steatite. Below, figure Gilgamesh? prostrate above, offering to Ea, heraldic animals, etc. c. BC 2300. ? Brick. VII | |
| 6003 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. White shell. Human figure, animals and inscription. Inscription(?) [reference to drawing] Perhaps: Lugal = king? |
| 6004 | (none) | 1927,0527.185 | (none) | Cylinder seal. Half of light pink marble row of human figures with small animals between and above. Sun god defeating his enemy. About BC 2600. |
| 6007 | (none) | 1927,0527.43 | (none) | Duck weight grey steatite head and tail slightly chipped. Type VI. |
| 6008 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Duck weight. Black hematite. |
| 6009 | (none) | (none) | B16359 | Pin. Bone. Square in section with knob head. [drawing 1:1] |
| 6010 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Weight? Ovoid, flattened on one side, of grey pebble. Type I. |
| 6011 | (none) | 1927,0527.54 | (none) | Weight? Black diorite egg-shaped with sharply pointed end. Type I? [drawing 1:1] |
| 6012 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Pin holder? Metal bronze. Triangular. Rounded at top and base. [drawing 1:1] |
| 6013 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Baked brick game board square incisions on one face. Design scratched in after baking. [design 1:2] |
| 6014 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay vase. Part of rim and upper portion of pot broken. Type XX. B31. =1L.81 |
| 6015 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay vase. Rim broken in two places. Type XIX =1L.115 |
| 6016 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay vase. Broken. Type XX variant. Not used. Vol.VII. |
| 6017 | (none) | (none) | B16387 | 8 shaped colored beads, including crescent shaped agate pendant, shell and carnelian. | |
| 6018A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-L] 12 knucklebones. |
| 6019 | (none) | (none) | B16231, B16231 | Clay foundation of Ur Nammu. Stem only. Chipped. Same inscription as U.2701, U.202. Records digging of a canal called Canal of Ur. P. Text: 9H(3) | |
| 6020 | (none) | 1927,0527.201 | (none) | Stamp seal, flattened hemispherical -obverse convex- top with decorative workings - 3 parallel lines running across centre and 4 concentric circles in corners. White steatite. Two Sumerian - man & wife bring as an offering a goat (?) and a vase of milk. diam. 0022 width 0004 About BC 3500. photograph 554 E. |
| 6021 | (none) | 1927,0527.109 | (none) | Double ended spatula. Bronze. E. |
| 6022 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone vase fragment. White limestone tumbler. Type XIII variant. Ur. |
| 6023 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay vase. Drab. Type CVII. |
| 6024 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay vase. Drab. |
| 6025 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay vase. Drab. Ring base chipped shouldered. 3 grooves incised on wet clay turning round under neck. Type CCXXI. |
| 6026 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay bowl. Burial urn. Round base. Shouldered. Type CCXXVIII. =P9. |
| 6029 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Fragment of statue. White limestone. One side of bottom of skirt; showing 3 flounces. B. text: 9H(3) [drawing 1:2] |
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| Media | Media Title | Title | Label | Author | Omeka Label |
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| Ur Excavations VI; The Ur III Period | Ur Excavations VI; The Ur III Period | 1974 | Woolley, Leonard | (none) |
| U6257 Catalog Card | U6257 Catalog Card | 1926 | Woolley et al | (none) | |
| UPM Field Photo numbers | UPM Field Photo numbers | (none) | (none) | (none) |
| Ur Excavations IV; The Early Periods | Ur Excavations IV; The Early Periods | 1955 | Woolley, L. | (none) |
| Ur Excavations VII; The Old Babylonian Period | Ur Excavations VII; The Old Babylonian Period | 1976 | Woolley, L. and M. Mallowan | (none) |
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Sibling Locations
AH Site | AH - City Wall | CLW - DP - Dublalmah | LL - Ehursag | HT - EM Site | EM - Enunmah | TTB | ES - ESB - FH - Giparu | KP - Great Nanna Courtyard | PD - Harbor Temple - House 34/1 - House 34/2 - House Site - Kassite Fort - KPS Site | KPS - LT - LW - Mausoleum Site | BC - Neo-Babylonian Housing | NH - NNCF - NTB - P/103 - Palace of Bel-Shalti-Nannar | AD - Pit F - Royal Cemetery | PG - SM - Temenos Wall | TW - TTC - XNCF - Ziggurat Terrace | ZT