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)
7566 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Sard? Two registers. Inscribed Ur-sa(g)-ga; dumu.Ur-GAR-MUG. Portion of one end missing. Below spread eagle; above dragon?
7567 (none) (none) (none) Ring. Copper. [drawing 1:1] Found with U7624, U7575, U7623
7568 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Worshipper before seated Nannar.
7571 (none) (none) (none) Necklace. Glass beads. Ring 37 and 1 lentoid.
7572 (none) (none) (none) Necklace. Carnelian, blue crystal, yellow and one lapis lazuli bead. 34 in all. Lentoids, ring beads, bugle beads and double conoids. Restrung in original order. Found with Phonecian black and blue glass bottle U7660 and with clay pot Type XXIX
7574 (none) (none) (none) Stone fragment of statute. Human right hand, life size. Missing above knuckles. Blue diorite. Forefingers bent and grasping the back of the second hand? Skin round nails neatly pared and rounded off. [drawing 1:3]
7575 (none) (none) (none) 85 glass? ring beads. Bleached white. With U7624 and 7623. Found with Ccopper right U7567.
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.
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.
7577 (none) (none) (none) Clay vase. Glazed, blue. Bleached white. Perforated on either side immediately below rim. Type CCXCIII
7578 (none) (none) (none) Pin. Bone. Brown. Perforated below top. [drawing 1:1]
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.
7580 (none) (none) (none) Clay saucer. Reddish. Type CCXCV. =L
7581 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Rock crystal. White. 9 fish. c.-3000BC?
7583 (none) (none) B16903 Cylinder seal. Fragment. Marble, White Scene of worship. Heavily draped god seated on throne without a back holding in outstretched left hand a bird? Above double crescent moon? & between seated god and advancing figure a second bird? Second advancing fig. clean shaven, & heavily draped in long flairing skirt, behind him a goose? and behind the goose a goddess? in a flounced kaunakes skirt, both arms upraised? Behind the throne of the seated god Gilgamesh? with tail.
7584A (none) (none) (none) Apotropaic mud figures. [drawing 1:2]
7584B (none) (none) (none) Apotropaic mud figures. [drawing 1:2]
7584C (none) (none) (none) Apotropaic mud figures. [drawing 1:2]
7585 (none) (none) B17268 Clay vase. Glazed. Blue glaze mostly flaked off. Type CCXLI variant =P.125. Neo-Babylonian.
7587 (none) (none) B17216 Owl? Unbaked clay. Oblong block with rounded edges. 2 cavities for eyes sockets and in each cavity a cowry shell to represent eye ball. Nose roughly pinched to form a projecting ridge between the eyes. Cavity in top of head 002 in diam. [drawing 1:2]
7588 (none) (none) (none) 14 beads. Yellow paste ring beads and one lapis ball bead.
7595 (none) (none) (none) Bowl. Copper. Broken and fragmentary. [drawing 1:2] Look up in analysis. Not in 63a 23a 57.
7596 (none) (none) (none) Clay urn. Greenish drab. Child's grave. Type CCXCIX.
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]
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]

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Media Media Title Title Label Author Omeka Label
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)
Ur Excavations VII; The Old Babylonian Period Ur Excavations VII; The Old Babylonian Period 1976 Woolley, L. and M. Mallowan (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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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.