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)
7836T 52-30-126 (none) (none) [A-U] Tablets. Principally contracts. [lettered on card in lower case Greek, transliterated in order written from a-s, skipping j] (A) contract dated to 36th year of Rim-Sin. NB envelope marked alpha goes with this) (B) multiplication table: 4 times. (C) (fragment of envelope in lot U.7837 goes with this?) (D) date: Rim-Sin 55. (E) date apparently (a variety?) of Hammurabi (mu H)a-am-mu-ra-bi; (nu-u)h-ush-ni-shu- mu-un-ba-a(l) (F) _ (G) contract beginning with 18 or more nom. prop. of witnesses. date = ?... (H) Rim-Sin 36. (I) _ [J] [Not assigned] (K) _ (L) _ (M) _ (N) _ (O) _ (P) _ (Q) _ (R) same date as s. (S) same date as r. (T) Rim-Sin 12. (U) others. with omega cf. U.7827p.p.p. HC.59 (seal impressions) (the copies restored from many impressions. When from cover, verification from inner tablet required)
7836R 52-30-126 1953,0411.274 (none) [A-U] Tablets. Principally contracts. [lettered on card in lower case Greek, transliterated in order written from a-s, skipping j] (A) contract dated to 36th year of Rim-Sin. NB envelope marked alpha goes with this) (B) multiplication table: 4 times. (C) (fragment of envelope in lot U.7837 goes with this?) (D) date: Rim-Sin 55. (E) date apparently (a variety?) of Hammurabi (mu H)a-am-mu-ra-bi; (nu-u)h-ush-ni-shu- mu-un-ba-a(l) (F) _ (G) contract beginning with 18 or more nom. prop. of witnesses. date = ?... (H) Rim-Sin 36. (I) _ [J] [Not assigned] (K) _ (L) _ (M) _ (N) _ (O) _ (P) _ (Q) _ (R) same date as s. (S) same date as r. (T) Rim-Sin 12. (U) others. with omega cf. U.7827p.p.p. HC.59 (seal impressions) (the copies restored from many impressions. When from cover, verification from inner tablet required)
7836S 52-30-126 1953,0411.110 (none) [A-U] Tablets. Principally contracts. [lettered on card in lower case Greek, transliterated in order written from a-s, skipping j] (A) contract dated to 36th year of Rim-Sin. NB envelope marked alpha goes with this) (B) multiplication table: 4 times. (C) (fragment of envelope in lot U.7837 goes with this?) (D) date: Rim-Sin 55. (E) date apparently (a variety?) of Hammurabi (mu H)a-am-mu-ra-bi; (nu-u)h-ush-ni-shu- mu-un-ba-a(l) (F) _ (G) contract beginning with 18 or more nom. prop. of witnesses. date = ?... (H) Rim-Sin 36. (I) _ [J] [Not assigned] (K) _ (L) _ (M) _ (N) _ (O) _ (P) _ (Q) _ (R) same date as s. (S) same date as r. (T) Rim-Sin 12. (U) others. with omega cf. U.7827p.p.p. HC.59 (seal impressions) (the copies restored from many impressions. When from cover, verification from inner tablet required)
7787A 52-30-121 (none) (none) Tablets 20 business documents; principally contracts (including 4 covered with seal impression, which are unmarked in a box): dated to latter part of Kassite dyn. (13 cent.): cf. (A) ^dsa-gar-rak-ti-Su-ri-ia-as 9: 1262-50 (B) ^dRamman-sum-iddin(SUM)-na l(mu-sag) 1238-33 (C) ^dRamman-sum-nazir 1232-03. (D) ^dRamman-sum-nazir. (therefore dates of QS High level = 1262-1175)
7827C 52-30-111 (none) (none) [A-X] Tablets. Contracts and accounts of Larsa - Bab I period. (cf. also U.7832). Dates: (A) Sumuilum 1; (B) Sumuilum 1; (C) Rim-Sin 49; (D) Samsuiluna, etc. fc. (M) (N) lists of names. many fragments: p.p.p.) fragments of one large tablet cf. U.7836W (or 8806A); t.t.) seem to belong together; Q) seal impression; S) contract with many fragments of its envelope (with seal impression); W) cf. U.7832L; X) cf. U.7832B.
7827D 52-30-111 (none) (none) [A-X] Tablets. Contracts and accounts of Larsa - Bab I period. (cf. also U.7832). Dates: (A) Sumuilum 1; (B) Sumuilum 1; (C) Rim-Sin 49; (D) Samsuiluna, etc. fc. (M) (N) lists of names. many fragments: p.p.p.) fragments of one large tablet cf. U.7836W (or 8806A); t.t.) seem to belong together; Q) seal impression; S) contract with many fragments of its envelope (with seal impression); W) cf. U.7832L; X) cf. U.7832B.
7753 47-29-62, 47-29-62 (none) (none) Tablet. Large fragment of large tablet (4 cent thick) of accounts.
8806C 47-29-384 (none) (none) [A-Q] Tablets. Business. 17 tablets. [R-AB] 11 fragments. dates on small tablets: (A) Dungi 36, (B) Dungi 37, (C) Dungi 41 (D) Dungi 54, (E) Mu-us-sa-bi. A: cf.U.7827 ppp?, F: cf.U.8810 F?
7527 30-12-211 (none) (none) Clay vase. Light drab. Type CCLXXXII=IL.118 found with type XX,
7535 30-12-194 (none) (none) Clay vase. Light drab. Type CCLXXXV =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?]
7520 30-12-178 (none) (none) Clay vase. Light drab. Upper portion cracked. Type CCLXVIII.=IL.22.a
7614 30-12-177 (none) (none) Clay vase. Light drab. Type CCCV = JN 120
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.
7053B 30-12-158 (none) (none) [A-B] 2 clay vases. Light drab. Type CCLXXIII =L. Drab vase found with U.7054.
7053A (none) (none) B16611 [A-B] 2 clay vases. Light drab. Type CCLXXIII =L. Drab vase found with U.7054.
7054 (none) (none) (none) Clay vase. Miniature. Light drab. Handmade. =L. Not typed. [drawing 1:2]
7055 (none) (none) (none) Nose? Ring. Gold. [drawing 1:1]
7056 (none) (none) (none) Nose? Ring. Gold. [drawing 1:1]
7073 (none) (none) (none) Box of reed matting. Fragmentary. Part of base and part of side alone remain. Square, raised bottom.
7073A (none) (none) (none) No catalog card exists for this object: U.7070-U.7145 were duplicated with the duplicates assigned to tablets from Season 4 found in areas KP, EH, and possibly HT (Jacobsen AJA 57:128). The duplicates have been given the subletter A in this database while the original object from the catalog card retains the number without subletter (unless the original catalog card held multiple objects, in which case those are given appropriate subletters and the tablet takes the next in the sequence).
7074A (none) (none) B16636 Clay vase. Light drab. Type 272. =L.
7075A.1 (none) (none) B16583A Clay vase. Light drab. Type [CVII and =RC.55 crossed out] 659. =L.
7076A (none) (none) (none) Loom weight. White stone. Pierced. Hollow base. Cone shaped, rounded top. Type IV. E.
7077 (none) (none) (none) Disk. Clay. Only approximately round. Drab greenish.

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Media Media Title Title Label Author Omeka Label
UPM Field Photo numbers UPM Field Photo numbers (none) (none) (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)
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)
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