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)
7078 (none) 1927,0527.127 (none) Plaque. Lead. Rectangular. Pierced at each end. E.
7081 (none) (none) B16641 Clay vase. Light creamy drab. Type [CCXI crossed out] 272 variant narrower rim, belly comes less low. =L. cf. U.7082-3
7082 (none) (none) (none) Clay vase. Light drab. Ring base broken. Type [CCXI crossed out] 272. =L. cf. U.7081, U.7083..
7083 (none) (none) (none) Clay bowl. Greenish drab. Type CCLXIX. =L.
7084 (none) 1935,0113.389 (none) Clay bowl. Black. Finely burnished. Type.
7090A (none) (none) (none) [A-B] 2 bangles. Bronze. B.
7090C (none) 1948,0423.30 (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).
7095 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta pig. One foot lost. Incised lines on back indicate hair. B. Larsa? cf U7094
7095A (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).
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.
7100 (none) (none) (none) Clay saucer. Light drab. Type CCLXXVII.
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.
7102 (none) (none) (none) Clay bottle. Bottom broken. Type LXI 658. =L.
7103 (none) (none) B16573 Clay vase. Light drab. Type 645. =L,
7104A (none) (none) B16593A [A-C] 3 clay vases. Light drab. Type XVI. 195. =L.
7104B (none) (none) B16594 [A-C] 3 clay vases. Light drab. Type XVI. 195. =L.
7104C (none) (none) B16593B [A-C] 3 clay vases. Light drab. Type XVI. 195. =L.
7105 (none) (none) B16642 Clay vase. Light drab. Band of black paint round rim. Type [CCXXII crossed out] 704. L.
7106 (none) (none) B16629 Clay bowl. Design roughly painted in black on ground. Found inverted; under it, dates. Type CCLXXVIII. =L.
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]
7145 (none) (none) B16226 Stone bowl. Fragment of Dark steatite. On the outside, a row of scorpions carved in low relief.
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)
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]
7503 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. White calcite. Minor deity greeting major deity? Inscribed: Isib ^dNin-Subur (=Priest of Ninsubur, or nom. prop.) SAL-Ku-a [crossed out] Nin-a ba-ku(?)-ma(?)-ti
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.

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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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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.