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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 6035 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay vase. Light drab. Type CCXIV =RC.56. |
| 6036 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay vase. Light drab. |
| 6037 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay vase. Approximately identical with U.6035. Mouth chipped. Type CCXIV =RC.56 |
| 6038 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay bowl. Bellied. Flat ring shaped base grooved below mouth. Drab. Type CCLXXIV. |
| 6039 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay bowl. Light drab. Face decorated with thick black with shaped painted strips. Fragmentary. Part of rim missing. Not to scale [reference to drawing] Type 274 = 1L.35 [drawing] |
| 6040 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay vase. Reddish. 3 incised parallel lines below rim. 2 incised parallel lines above base. Round base. Misshapen. CCXIV =RC.56 |
| 6041 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay vase. Reddish. XLIII, Type XLIV [XLIII seems to be correcting XLIV] |
| 6042 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Earthenware pot. Type CVI [CXXVI crossed out] |
| 6043 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Earthenware vase. Same as U.6042. Type CVI. |
| 6044 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Earthenware vase. Type CCXII. |
| 6045 | (none) | (none) | B16610 | Earthenware vase. Type CCXIII. | |
| 6046 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Earthenware bowl. Type CXXI |
| 6047 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Earthenware bowl. Type [CXXI and XLIV both crossed out] RC.42. Variant. |
| 6048 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Earthenware pot. Type CVI [CXXI, CXCVI, and LV have been crossed out] |
| 6049 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Earthenware bowl. Type [CXXI. LV and XCV have been crossed out] 4.a (Nearest approximate) |
| 6050 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Broken earthenware bowl. Drab clay. Type CXCVI. |
| 6051 | (none) | (none) | B16239 | Flat earthenware bowl. Drab clay. Type CCIX. | |
| 6055 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Earthenware pot. Drab color. Type CCVIII |
| 6057B | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] 2 sling bolts. Sundried clay. [drawing 1:1] |
| 6060 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Alabaster [seems to be corrected as white calcite] pin. Chipped. |
| 6061 | (none) | (none) | B16357 | Alabaster pin. E. |
| 6062 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Weight. Green stone. Cylinder shaped Flat base. E. Type I. [drawing 1:2] |
| 6063A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bronze arrowheads. 3 petal shaped grooves running to a point. B. [drawing 1:1] |
| 6063B | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bronze arrowheads. 3 petal shaped grooves running to a point. B. |
| 6063C | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bronze arrowheads. 3 petal shaped grooves running to a point. B. |
| Media | Media Title | Title | Label | Author | Omeka Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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