EM Site | EM
| Context Title: | EM Site | EM |
| Context Name (Excavation): | EM |
| Context Name (Publication): | EM Site |
| Context Description: | The excavation area abbreviation EM stands for Extra-Mural because this area lies outside of the southwest Temenos Wall. H.R. Hall investigated a portion of the high ground at this site (his Area A) in 1919, finding the remains of domestic structures. Taylor had also cut a trench here in 1853. Woolley first tested the ground early in 1926 (season 4) and then dug more completely in season 5, concentrating on about 60x40 meters of space and excavating to a depth of approximately 5 meters from the surface. He dug through Kassite and other late remains that were particularly fragmentary. He reported two Kassite houses (which he dubbed High House and Hill House) that were complete enough to map, and eventually uncovered twelve houses of the Isin-Larsa/Old Babylonian period. There were many graves beneath the floors and tablets were also relatively common. Most of the tablets have to do with the business of the temple, so the houses here probably belonged to temple workers. Woolley named the streets he found in areas EM and AH. He felt that by naming the streets he could more easily identify any particular house, giving them numbers along the street with odd numbers on one side and even on the other. Many of the street names recur in the English city of Bath, where Woolley owned a house. The northern portion of area EM ('Quality Lane' on Woolley's map) was excavated as area DP in season 4. This was higher ground than much of the rest of EM and is mapped with only partial houses that are not published in any detail. The houses of EM are more completely published, but their various phases of construction and rebuilding are not detailed. The domestic space represented by these houses likely continued eastward into area EH in the Isin-Larsa/Old Babylonian and Kassite periods, then was cut through and partly destroyed by the foundations of the Neo-Babylonian temenos wall. |
| Location Type: | Domestic |
| Object | U Number | Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) | Museum Number (BM Registration Number) | Museum Number (UPM B-number) | Description (Catalog Card) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 7593 | (none) | 1928,1009.148 | (none) | Glass rod. Fragment. Black. Composed of long fine strands. Pinched at one end thus showing that it had been used at Ur in the fabrication of glass ware. |
| 7595 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bowl. Copper. Broken and fragmentary. [drawing 1:2] Look up in analysis. Not in 63a 23a 57. |
| 7596 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay urn. Greenish drab. Child's grave. Type CCXCIX. |
| 7601 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Terracotta plaque. Fragment. Male figure (missing below waist). Head, arms and legs in profile, trunk full face. Right arm raised behind head and wielding an object? In right hand, left arm bent at elbow and held down-wards grasps in left hand the head of conquered foe? [drawing 1:1] |
| 7602 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Terracotta figurine. Fragment. Broken below waist. Nude female suckling child against breast, supporting it with left hand and holding the right against its head. Left hand of female figure holds her right wrist. Female wears a fillet round head, earrings and a necklace. Twisted plait of hair falls down either side of head and ends in a thick curl on the shoulder. [drawing 1:1] |
| 7605 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Weight Conoid. hematite. Dark green. Type IV. |
| 7606A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-C] 3 fish hooks. Copper. 2 complete, 1 fragment. Top of stem missing. [drawing 1:1] |
| 7606B | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-C] 3 fish hooks. Copper. 2 complete, 1 fragment. Top of stem missing. |
| 7607 | (none) | 1928,1009.30 | (none) | Cylinder seal. hematite. Black. Two gazelles rampant heads turned backward to face rampant lion? with feathered neck viz [drawing] and beaked head. Between the gazelles a palm tree. Sargonid? |
| 7608 | (none) | (none) | (none) | 7 bugle beads. Frit. Pale blue. |
| 7612 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Mirror? Copper. Fragment. Oval shaped with straight handle. [drawing 1:1] |
| 7614 | 30-12-177 | (none) | (none) | Clay vase. Light drab. Type CCCV = JN 120 | |
| 7619 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Necklace. 113 beads. Mostly yellowish frit. 2 double conoid lapis lazuli, 1 double conoid carnelian and 1 carnelian ball bead. |
| 7621 | (none) | (none) | (none) | 7 beads. 6 agate lentoid, 1 carnelian bugle bead. Kassite. |
| 7623 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bangle. Silver. Poor condition. Small piece missing. Found with U.7624, 7575, 7567 |
| 7635 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone vase. Calcite. White. Type XXXIX = RC.89. |
| 7660 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Glass bottle. Ribbed. Blue and black wave pattern. Phoenician technique. Moulded on a core. Broken and repaired. Found with Pot Type CXIX and Necklace U7572 |
| 7672 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Terracotta figurine. Top half missing. Lower half of figure in long flowing dress standing on bearded goat. [drawing 1:1] |
| 7682 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Terracotta stool. Miniature. Square, four legs. Seat represented by tiers of V-shaped decoration in imitations of reed matting? held together by 4 cross beams with grooves at each corner. [drawing 1:3] |
| 7700 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay seal impression. Roughly cube-shaped lump with beginning of same inscription on each face. cf. U.6360, doubtless seal of son of present Sinikisan who had same name as his grandfather Ilusu-ibisa. Date = Hammurabi. HC.3 |
| 7701A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A] Clay cone. Ur Nammu = U169 etc. (canal of Ur) (good specimen) Another fragment of same (B) Another fragment. |
| 7702A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A] LipitIstar = U.4 etc. etc. B. (somewhat broken) [B] Another (good specimen). [C] Another (part). [D-E] Two more fragments. [F] Another fragment. [G] Another fragment. (cf. also U.7845). |
| 7705 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay tablet. Fragment of contract. Dated = Sumuilum 5. cf. &.8810 G.H.? HC.7. |
| 7706 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay tablet. Table of Ka measures from 1 to 300 (= 1 gur). Fragment (Half wanting) [crossed out] Now completed from 1 of U.8810. HC.8. |
| 7707 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Fragment of a baked tablet. |
| Media | Media Title | Title | Label | Author | Omeka Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Social Variation in Ancient Mesopotamia: An Architectural and Mortuary Analysis of Ur in the Early S | Social Variation in Ancient Mesopotamia: An Architectural and Mortuary Analysis of Ur in the Early Second Millenium B.C. | 1990 | Luby, Edward Michael | (none) |
| Social Variation in Ancient Mesopotamia: An Architectural and Mortuary Analysis of Ur in the Early S | Social Variation in Ancient Mesopotamia: An Architectural and Mortuary Analysis of Ur in the Early Second Millennium B.C. | 1990 | Luby, E. | (none) |
| Ur Excavations VII; The Old Babylonian Period | Ur Excavations VII; The Old Babylonian Period | 1976 | Woolley, L. and M. Mallowan | (none) |
| Ur Excavations VIII; The Kassite Period and the period of the Assyrian Kings | Ur Excavations VIII; The Kassite Period and the period of the Assyrian Kings | 1965 | Woolley, Leonard | (none) |
| UPM Field Photo numbers | UPM Field Photo numbers | (none) | (none) | (none) |
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Sibling Locations
AH Site | AH - City Wall | CLW - DP - Dublalmah | LL - EH Site | EH - Ehursag | HT - 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
Child Locations
Closed Lane | EM - Gay Street | EM - Graves - High House | High House - Hill House | Hill House - New Street | EM - Quality Lane | EM - Quiet Street | EM