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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 16580 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay tablet. Babylonian letter to: ^dSin-...; from ^dSin-...; H.C. 30/Xi, [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card] |
| 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. |
| 7596 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay urn. Greenish drab. Child's grave. Type CCXCIX. |
| 7577 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay vase. Glazed, blue. Bleached white. Perforated on either side immediately below rim. Type CCXCIII |
| 7585 | (none) | (none) | B17268 | Clay vase. Glazed. Blue glaze mostly flaked off. Type CCXLI variant =P.125. Neo-Babylonian. | |
| 7559 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay vase. Glazed. Originally blue, bleached. Type LXXXVIII =P182A Persian |
| 7901 | (none) | (none) | B17241 | Clay vase. Glazed. Originally green, bleached white and yellow. Pomegranate shaped. Part of rim missing. Type CCCI or RC.17. | |
| 7531 | (none) | (none) | B17270 | Clay vase. Greenish drab. Type CCLXXXIII=L | |
| 7512 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay vase. Greenish drab. Type CCXLI = P125. in album. prob. Neo-Bab. Grave not in Tab. anal [Tabular analysis?] Found with types CCXLI [crossed out] CCLXXVI and CXX and Fibula U7501. |
| 7081 | (none) | (none) | B16641 | Clay vase. Light creamy drab. Type [CCXI crossed out] 272 variant narrower rim, belly comes less low. =L. cf. U.7082-3 | |
| 7105 | (none) | (none) | B16642 | Clay vase. Light drab. Band of black paint round rim. Type [CCXXII crossed out] 704. L. | |
| 7082 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay vase. Light drab. Ring base broken. Type [CCXI crossed out] 272. =L. cf. U.7081, U.7083.. |
| 7074A | (none) | (none) | B16636 | Clay vase. Light drab. Type 272. =L. | |
| 7103 | (none) | (none) | B16573 | Clay vase. Light drab. Type 645. =L, | |
| 7614 | 30-12-177 | (none) | (none) | Clay vase. Light drab. Type CCCV = JN 120 | |
| 7514 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay vase. Light drab. Type CCLXXIII [crossed out] CCCII. |
| 7521 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay vase. Light drab. Type CCLXXIX=P58 |
| 7527 | 30-12-211 | (none) | (none) | Clay vase. Light drab. Type CCLXXXII=IL.118 found with type XX, | |
| 7535 | 30-12-194 | (none) | (none) | Clay vase. Light drab. Type CCLXXXV =L | |
| 7075A.1 | (none) | (none) | B16583A | Clay vase. Light drab. Type [CVII and =RC.55 crossed out] 659. =L. | |
| 7075A.2 | (none) | (none) | B16583B | Clay vase. Light drab. Type [CVII and =RC.55 crossed out] 659. =L. | |
| 7079 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay vase. Light drab. Type [XVI and =RC.73 have been crossed out] 195. =L. |
| 7520 | 30-12-178 | (none) | (none) | Clay vase. Light drab. Upper portion cracked. Type CCLXVIII.=IL.22.a | |
| 7054 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay vase. Miniature. Light drab. Handmade. =L. Not typed. [drawing 1:2] |
| Media | Media Title | Title | Label | Author | Omeka Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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) |
| Ur Excavations VII; The Old Babylonian Period | Ur Excavations VII; The Old Babylonian Period | 1976 | Woolley, L. and M. Mallowan | (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 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) |
| 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