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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 7584C | (none) | (none) | (none) | Apotropaic mud figures. [drawing 1:2] |
| 7505 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bangle. Carnelian, lapis lazuli, white paste and crystal beads. 4 spacers, 2 of bone pierced 6 times and 2 of lapis lazuli pierced 3 times. 133 beads in all. |
| 7623 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bangle. Silver. Poor condition. Small piece missing. Found with U.7624, 7575, 7567 |
| 7565 | (none) | 1928,1010.371 | (none) | Bar. Iron. Rectangular in section, loop at one end. Badly corroded. Tapering at one end. Thick end is hollowed out to a depth of 10mm | |
| 10408 | (none) | 1928,1010.98 | (none) | Beads 5 gold, 1 lapis, carnelian and agate Restrung not in original order Isin period |
| 10410 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads Gold (1), agate and carnelian Isin-Larsa period |
| 7659 | (none) | (none) | B17240 | Bottle. Glazed. Originally blue. Bleached white. 2 Handles one on either side to receive straps to which the bottle must originally have been attached. On either side of bottle from neck to base a groove 15mm wide and projecting ridge on either side of the groove. Ridge widened at the base to allow the pot to stand upright. Broken and mended. Type 762=P.221 Not in Tab anal. [Tabular Analysis?] | |
| 7624 | (none) | (none) | B17405 | Bowl. Copper. [drawing 2:5] Where are field notes? | |
| 7595 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bowl. Copper. Broken and fragmentary. [drawing 1:2] Look up in analysis. Not in 63a 23a 57. |
| 7073 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Box of reed matting. Fragmentary. Part of base and part of side alone remain. Square, raised bottom. |
| 7710 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Brick. Bur Sin = U.9861 (SAK p.198 d) concerning his statue). Face has part 1. One edge has end of lines of part 1. One edge has beginning of lines of part 2. |
| 7708 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Brick. Of a Patesi of Lagash. Fragment. Handwritten. HC.9. |
| 7720 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Brick. Ur-Nammu = U.3132 (SAK 186 A) but measurements different. |
| 7510 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Child's rattle. Baked clay. 2 flattened hemispherical parts joined mouth to mouth, indented circumference. Pierced through the middle. Common in IIIrd Dynasty cemetery at Diqdiqqeh. |
| 7102 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay bottle. Bottom broken. Type LXI 658. =L. |
| 7084 | (none) | 1935,0113.389 | (none) | Clay bowl. Black. Finely burnished. Type. | |
| 7106 | (none) | (none) | B16629 | Clay bowl. Design roughly painted in black on ground. Found inverted; under it, dates. Type CCLXXVIII. =L. | |
| 7083 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay bowl. Greenish drab. Type CCLXIX. =L. |
| 7513 | 30-12-191 | (none) | (none) | Clay bowl. Reddish. Type CCLXXVI. =P.24 Found with types CCXLI and CCXX and Fibula U7501. Cf U7511 and U7512. Grave not in tab. anal. [Tabular analysis?] | |
| 7797 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay cone (frag) (1st col.) Lipit Ishtar/, U.7702 with the variant noted SAK 204 Anm.i or U.7845 |
| 7781 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay cone (fragm) Dedication to [^dNin]-ezen+la (cf. found. tablet of Kurigalzu). a reference to E Kis-ser-gal cf. also Lipit-Ishtar cone, U.7702 HC.28 |
| 7717 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay cone fragment. Ur Nammu cone of Etemennigur U.701. etc. (SAK 188 A) with line 6 (Ur^dNammu) omitted? ? |
| 7719 | (none) | (none) | B17227, B17227 | Clay cone of Rim-Sin to Nergal. Inscribed in dupliate on head and stem. Inscription on stem of U.640 apparently corresponds (acc. to the photograph) to col. 2 of U.7719. = dupl. of 640. HC.19. | |
| 7711 | (none) | (none) | B17225, B17225 | Clay cone. Ibi-Sin. Fragmentary. Prob = (the fragmentary) U.2576 but contains fuller text. HC.12. | |
| 7713E | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay cones = Ur Nammu of Etemiennigur (SAK 188 A) = U.701 etc. [A-B] 2 whole, [C-X] 22 fragmentary from various places throughout the season. All to B[aghdad] except 1 whole and 1 broken) |
| Media | Media Title | Title | Label | Author | Omeka Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UPM Field Photo numbers | UPM Field Photo numbers | (none) | (none) | (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) |
| 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) |
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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