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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 7500 | (none) | 1928,1009.431 | (none) | Stone vase. Fragment. Blue steatite. Carved in low relief. On left, portion of man's left arm and waist and on right, a beast with head bent downwards, one horn complete one fragmentary. Above, fragment of a scorpion? Possibly a portion of fragmentary vase of similar material in low relief U.231 found in 1925 dedicated by Rimush of Agade c.2650 BC. [drawing 1:1] BM could not trace this object in May 1935. (proper to Vol. VII) |
| 7826 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet Contract about a cultivated estate (e-du-a): with half of envelope and seal impressions (pre-Kassite date). |
| 7792 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet Fragments making the greater part of a large vocabulary (Sumerian only) in 10 columns: words and phrases (religion) names of birds, fishes, etc. | |
| 7791 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet Large table of Sumerian-Semitic verbal forms 1st part duplicates U7794 HC.55 |
| 7790 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet Large: Hymn to Ninibi | |
| 7803 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet Plan for field measurements HC 32 |
| 7794 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet Sumerian-Semitic paradigms of verbs Duplicate text included in U7791 HC.55 | |
| 7755 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet (fragment). "Dedication"? [crossed out] Date list. ?? with U7754 [crossed out] |
| 7754 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet (fragment). Large fragment of large tablet. cf. Tilmun Epic. |
| 7762 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet (fragment). Piece of a large table of square roots. |
| 7761 | 52-30-211, 52-30-211 | (none) | (none) | Tablet (fragmentary) [length unknown] |
| 7730 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet. | |
| 7738 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet. | |
| 7748 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet. |
| 7793 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet. | |
| 15054 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet. Long list. Payments of meal, etc. HC.706 |
| 8808A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet. (b) and part of envelope of the same with seal impressions of a subject of Rim-Sin. H.C.56 (b) |
| 7740 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet. (frag) Belonging together? [with U.7739] |
| 7739 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet. (frags.) Belonging together? [with U.7740] |
| 7733 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet. (large fragment) Dedication of Kudurmabug. cf. 7728. |
| 7737 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet. 3 dedications of Ibi-Sin (cf. U.7728) HC.74. |
| 7746 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet. Archaic form of tablet. Kassite writing(?) Mentioning Ur ^dNammu(!) King of Ur. HC.70. |
| 7718 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet. Business document. Dated to 1st year of Sin-mu-ilum. |
| 7725 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet. cf. &.7736 and 7756 (26 whole) |
| 7756 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet. Content similar to U.7725 and 7736. |
| 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) |
| 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) |
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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