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     

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Object U Number Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) Museum Number (BM Registration Number) Museum Number (UPM B-number) Description (Catalog Card)
7579 30-12-171 (none) (none) Clay vase. Miniature. Whitish clay. Originally had a single handle over the top, now missing. This type ammt to in and by hand of the reciews, and a cspout? [very hard to read] Type CCXCIV. Not in RC or L series not on field note (attached) what other please? EM G44 is indicated in the Larsa analysis of graves original type appearing[?] therewith. This seems to be the sole example of the type.
10548 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal Steatite? White Inscribed Unpierced dumu-sal x ... A-HA daughter of .....Subaru
7523 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Marble. grey. Inscribed but faint. Two deities with hands upraised and between them armed warrior and sceptre with serpent's head. [drawing of scene]
7529 (none) 1928,0109.15 (none) Cylinder seal. White marble. Two heroes attacking rampant lion. One grasps lion by tail. Palm tree rising from pot? Linear figures.
7522 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black hematite. Ishtar and attendant. Presentation of worshiper to Nannar. attendant is dwarfish nude? female with thick hair. Attributes: crescent moon, sceptre (with serpent head?) For illustration cf. field note on G. 12. 2100 BC. And pot type XIX
7583 (none) (none) B16903 Cylinder seal. Fragment. Marble, White Scene of worship. Heavily draped god seated on throne without a back holding in outstretched left hand a bird? Above double crescent moon? & between seated god and advancing figure a second bird? Second advancing fig. clean shaven, & heavily draped in long flairing skirt, behind him a goose? and behind the goose a goddess? in a flounced kaunakes skirt, both arms upraised? Behind the throne of the seated god Gilgamesh? with tail.
7518 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Glass. Bleached white. Geometric designs, criss cross and lozenge in four panels. Found with mace heads U7516 U7517.
7524 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. hematite. Black. Inscribed. PA(?) dEN-ZU PA(>)-Sin warad ^dDun-pa-sag. u^d nin-har-sag-ga. Servant of Dun-pa-sag and of Ninharsag. For illustration cf. Field note on G.4. God with high horned headdress wearing flounced kaunakes skirt carrying sword in left-hand meeting second deity wearing short tunic only down to knees. This deity has a short pigtail behind head protruding horizontally over the shoulder. He is followed by a deity also in a short tunic, wearing high boots and bearing a mace Assyrian? Attributes: 7 Pleiades and crescent moon and goose.
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?
7548 (none) 1928,1009.53 (none) Cylinder seal. Marble. White. Incised lines decoration and 4 minute circles [drawing of design]
7581 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Rock crystal. White. 9 fish. c.-3000BC?
7566 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Sard? Two registers. Inscribed Ur-sa(g)-ga; dumu.Ur-GAR-MUG. Portion of one end missing. Below spread eagle; above dragon?
7528 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Shell. White. Inscribed [drawing of inscription]. Servant of Nin... 2 heroes attacking rampant lion one grasping it by the tail. Between the lion and a hero a monkey
7894 (none) (none) B16881 Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Scene of worship. Votary led by the hands by minor deity towards seated Nannar. Nannar and minor deity wear flounced kaunakes skirt and low head dress. Votary shaven and shorn wearing long skirt fringed in front. Behind votary a rampant lion between 4 vertical lines, which may represent the doors of a shrine? Attributes: crescent moons one against the other as on the burnt bricks of Sin-Iddinam.
7525 (none) (none) B16901 Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. 3 figures obliterated. Presentation scene before seated god bearing staff in left hand. IIIrd Dyn. of Ur. [drawing of scene]
7554 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Inscribed Unpierced. Unfinished. Ur Ama(?) ^dBa-u; dumu Arad-^dNannar(? written SES.) Outline of 1 figure only.
7589 (none) 1927,0109.29 (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Scene of worship. Standing god with left arm upraised, above a star? below a snake? Hero in short dress falling only to knees advances to meet major god. Behind the advancing figure a second figure carrying in the right hand a bird and in the left a fish.
7568 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Worshipper before seated Nannar.
7909 (none) 1928,1009.28 (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Green. Enthroned god with high horned headdress and kaunakes skirt stretching out wand to bull supporting shrine on his back. On either side of shrine, wings outspread and behind shrine a worshipper carrying a curved staff in his outstretched hands. Hair done up in a knot above shoulders. Bull is probably a symbol of strength and thus supports the shrine, the worshipper is probably represented as about to enter and the god as seated within. [drawing]
7503 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. White calcite. Minor deity greeting major deity? Inscribed: Isib ^dNin-Subur (=Priest of Ninsubur, or nom. prop.) SAL-Ku-a [crossed out] Nin-a ba-ku(?)-ma(?)-ti
10407 (none) 1928,1010.102 (none) Cyliner Seal Lapis lazuli Presentation scene: 3 figures, all standing, and 2 columns of inscription: Bur iluda-gan; mar Ku-ru-ub iluadad
7545 (none) (none) (none) Dagger blade. Copper. Broken in 2 places, tip missing. At one end six nobs, 3 on either side originally intended to fit into the wooden handle which supported the dagger blade. cf. U7549 also pot type XIII found with it.
7077 (none) (none) (none) Disk. Clay. Only approximately round. Drab greenish.
7557 (none) (none) (none) Duck weight Marble. Black. Head removed, outline of its base remains. Type VI.
7546 (none) (none) (none) Duck weight Marble. Grey. Type VI.

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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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