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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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U Number	Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)	Museum Number (BM Registration Number)	Museum Number (UPM B-number)	Description (Catalog Card)
7532B	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-B] Pair of earrings. Silver. Late Kassite? [drawing 1:1] Also with Pot Type CXLIX Found with 7 iron arrowheads U [7526?]
7532A	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-B] Pair of earrings. Silver. Late Kassite? [drawing 1:1] Also with Pot Type CXLIX Found with 7 iron arrowheads U [7526?]
10409A	(none)	(none)	B8250	[A-B] Pair Gold earrings Hoop of one broken Isin-Larsa period [drawing]
10409B	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-B] Pair Gold earrings Hoop of one broken Isin-Larsa period [drawing]
7053A	(none)	(none)	B16611	[A-B] 2 clay vases. Light drab. Type CCLXXIII =L. Drab vase found with U.7054.
7053B	30-12-158	(none)	(none)	[A-B] 2 clay vases. Light drab. Type CCLXXIII =L. Drab vase found with U.7054.
7101A	(none)	1935,0113.390	(none)	[A-B] 2 clay vases. Light drab. Type =284. =L. Cf. U.7097-U.7100, U.7102-U.7107.
7576B	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-B] 2 clay bowls. Glazed. Blue, bleached white. Found together one firmly wedged into the other. Portion of rim of B missing. Type CCLXXVI. =P.24 Kassite.
7576A	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-B] 2 clay bowls. Glazed. Blue, bleached white. Found together one firmly waged into the other. Portion of rim of B missing. Type CCLXXVI. =P.24 Kassite.
7090A	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-B] 2 bangles. Bronze. B.
7090B	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-B] 2 bangles. Bronze. B.
7519	(none)	1928,1009.468	(none)	Zebu. Unbaked clay. Species of buffaloid cattle. Legs missing. [drawing 1:1]
7508	(none)	(none)	B17101	Weight. Lentoid. Granite. Seven incised marks on the surface IIII III Type II
7530	(none)	(none)	(none)	Weight Limestone. Grey. Lentoid, flat on one sides. III marks on cylindrical portion. Type II.
7605	(none)	(none)	(none)	Weight Conoid. hematite. Dark green. Type IV.
7511	(none)	(none)	(none)	Vase. Greenish drab. Type CXX,=p.121 variant. Slightly higher neck and thicker rim. Found with types CCXLI and CCLXXVI and fibula U.7501
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]
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]
7582	(none)	1928,1009.464	(none)	Terracotta plaque. Cast from mould of a deity in an arched shrine. [Drawing 1:1] Sides of the shrine are formed of two columns, the shafts covered with rows of minute dots in relief, the capitals squared and decorated with a rosette. The arched supported by them is rather flat, the sides of the soffit straight below but curved in the centre: the straight sides make an angle of 135 degrees, the central curve corresponds to a segmental swelling in the face the crown of the arch. On this face of the arch are two rows of lines, resembling brickwork; on the segmental swelling these are radial, on the straight sides at right angles to the soffit. Above the arch is a flat calathus-shaped drama with 2 smaller rings above. The figure it shown full face. The impression from the mould is bad especially in the middle of the figure which projects considerably; here are all detail is missing. It is difficult to say whether the figure is intended to be seated or standing. The face, full and oval, has no beard and is presumably that of a female; the hair is lost against the crown of the arch. The drapery is shown by a series of crescent-shaped curves, rather sharply pointed over the breast and fuller and rounder below; it starts high on the neck and comes low down, covering the feet if the figure is meant to be seated, reaching halfway down the calf as if it is standing; below the last curve vertical rows of small dots (like those on the columns) cover the whole field; these might be the skirt of an undergarment (if the figure is standing) or might represent the floor under a seated figure. From the defaced middle part of the body there rise, in high relief against the drapery, two pointed objects; these look at first sight like the ends of a short stole; but they are more probably attributes held in the two hands - but neither hands nor arms are visible on the relief. On either side of the figure, between it and the columns, is a vertical band of circular rosettes, with a similar rosette on each shoulder; a narrow band in relief, running along their inner edge, connects theese and seems to pass behind the head (as though the two small sections of it between the last rosettes and the ears might alternatively be earrings or the ends of culs): the effect is that of a garland festooned below the arch. A row of dots in high relief, running right across the plaque below the column bases, forms the ground of the relief. [drawing 1:1]
7095	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta pig. One foot lost. Incised lines on back indicate hair. B. Larsa? cf U7094
7515	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta figurine. Traces of glaze bleached white. Fragmentary below breast. Female supporting in left hand a harp which leans over the left shoulder. Hair done up in a bag with fillet over forehead; thick plaits of hair on either side of head, falling as far as shoulder. Female wears a necklace, and right hand is apparently engaged in playing the harp while the left hand supports the harp. [drawing 1:1]
7672	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta figurine. Top half missing. Lower half of figure in long flowing dress standing on bearded goat. [drawing 1:1]
7550	(none)	1928,1009.467	(none)	Terracotta figurine. Nude god. Missing below knees. Bearded, wearing horned headdress and supporting against the breast in the right hand a short curved club and in the left a bird?? [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]
7541	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta figurine. Feet missing. Nude female grasping a pot against her breast in both hands. Hair falls down to shoulders. [drawing 1:1]

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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)
UPM Field Photo numbers	UPM Field Photo numbers	(none)	(none)	(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)
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)