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     

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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)
7506 (none) 1928,1009.164 (none) Earring. Gold foil. Semi-circular pin on crescent-shaped bag. [Drawing 1:1]
7526 (none) (none) (none) Earring. Gold. Crescent shaped. Semi-circular pin, detached at top. [This number was possibly duplicated in the field][drawing 1:1]
7562 (none) (none) (none) Earring. Gold. Lunar pendant attached to which is a plate flat behind and convex in front with gold filigrane decoration in the shape of a nine-petalled rosette. Also gold filigrane decoration around rim. [drawing 1:1 and enlarged detail drawing of filigree]
9505 (none) 1928,1010.419 (none) Feet of Statue Greenish grey steatite Very fine carving. The base is semi-circular: the dress was made in a different piece of stone (? in a different material) and was fixed by rivets to the feet, coming down behind them and completing the circle of the base. [drawing 2:3] View of back of pedastal showing rivet holes. [drawing] 1:1
7501 (none) (none) (none) Fibula. Bronze. Semi-circular, ribbed holder, each rib divided into 3 small bands. Clasp cracked at one end. [drawing 1:1]
7707 (none) (none) (none) Fragment of a baked tablet.
7782 (none) (none) (none) Fragment of baked tablet
7837 (none) (none) (none) Fragments of envelopes. Belonging with U.7836. Containing seal impressions. (in box: not marked)
7910 (none) 1928,1009.138 (none) Frog amulet. Lapis lazuli. [drawing 1:1][CARD MISLABELED U.7940B][Arabic notes on back of card] [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
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
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.
10406 (none) 1928,1010.101 (none) Gold Frontlet A long oval of very thin gold leaf [drawing] Isin period
7144A (none) (none) (none) Human head, pinkish limestone. Carved in the round: the head clean shaven, the features markedly indivdual. in B U.7144 is R.1.265 [in different hand]
7076A (none) (none) (none) Loom weight. White stone. Pierced. Hollow base. Cone shaped, rounded top. Type IV. E.
7517 (none) (none) (none) Mace head. Black marble. [drawing cut out, only label 1:1 still visible] Found with U7518 glass cylinder seal. Found with U7516 and clay written inscription.
7709 (none) (none) (none) Mace head. Fragment. Chalcedony? Quartzite? HC.11.
7516 (none) (none) (none) Mace head. Granite. [drawing cut out, only label 1:1 still visible] Found with U7518 glass cylinder seal. Found with U7517 and clay written impression
7612 (none) (none) (none) Mirror? Copper. Fragment. Oval shaped with straight handle. [drawing 1:1]
7619 (none) (none) (none) Necklace. 113 beads. Mostly yellowish frit. 2 double conoid lapis lazuli, 1 double conoid carnelian and 1 carnelian ball bead.
7572 (none) (none) (none) Necklace. Carnelian, blue crystal, yellow and one lapis lazuli bead. 34 in all. Lentoids, ring beads, bugle beads and double conoids. Restrung in original order. Found with Phonecian black and blue glass bottle U7660 and with clay pot Type XXIX
7099 (none) (none) (none) Necklace. Containing cylinder seal of carnelian. Inscribed. Cylinder seal; lapis lazuli plain. 65 carnelian beads. On carnelian cylinder seal. Worship of a standing god by votary led by the hand. Standing god holds club? Introducing goddess may be Dim-tab-ba. Inscribed: Dim-tab-ba. Cf. U.7097, U.7098 and U.7100-U.7106.
7540 (none) (none) (none) Necklace. Faience beads. Pinkish color. 58 in number. Late Kassite?
7571 (none) (none) (none) Necklace. Glass beads. Ring 37 and 1 lentoid.
not assigned (none) (none) B16981 No catalog card exists for this object. It and two other hematite weights are, however, mentioned on the card for U.7073 as having been found together in grave DP.12.
not assigned (none) (none) (none) No catalog card exists for this object. It and two other hematite weights are, however, mentioned on the card for U.7073 as having been found together in grave DP.12.

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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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Luby, Edward Michael. (1990) Social Variation in Ancient Mesopotamia: An Architectural and Mortuary Analysis of Ur in the Early Second Millenium B.C., UMI Dissertation Services.

Luby, E. (1990) Social Variation in Ancient Mesopotamia: An Architectural and Mortuary Analysis of Ur in the Early Second Millennium B.C., .

UPM Field Photo numbers, .

Woolley, L. and M. Mallowan . (1976) Ur Excavations VII; The Old Babylonian Period, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Woolley, Leonard. (1965 ) Ur Excavations VIII; The Kassite Period and the period of the Assyrian Kings, Oxford: Oxford University Press.