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)
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.
7589 (none) 1927,0109.29 (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Scene of worship. Standing god with left arm upraised, above a star? below a snake? Hero in short dress falling only to knees advances to meet major god. Behind the advancing figure a second figure carrying in the right hand a bird and in the left a fish.
7593 (none) 1928,1009.148 (none) Glass rod. Fragment. Black. Composed of long fine strands. Pinched at one end thus showing that it had been used at Ur in the fabrication of glass ware.
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]
7605 (none) (none) (none) Weight Conoid. hematite. Dark green. Type IV.
7606A (none) (none) (none) [A-C] 3 fish hooks. Copper. 2 complete, 1 fragment. Top of stem missing. [drawing 1:1]
7606B (none) (none) (none) [A-C] 3 fish hooks. Copper. 2 complete, 1 fragment. Top of stem missing.
7607 (none) 1928,1009.30 (none) Cylinder seal. hematite. Black. Two gazelles rampant heads turned backward to face rampant lion? with feathered neck viz [drawing] and beaked head. Between the gazelles a palm tree. Sargonid?
7608 (none) (none) (none) 7 bugle beads. Frit. Pale blue.
7612 (none) (none) (none) Mirror? Copper. Fragment. Oval shaped with straight handle. [drawing 1:1]
7619 (none) (none) (none) Necklace. 113 beads. Mostly yellowish frit. 2 double conoid lapis lazuli, 1 double conoid carnelian and 1 carnelian ball bead.
7621 (none) (none) (none) 7 beads. 6 agate lentoid, 1 carnelian bugle bead. Kassite.
7623 (none) (none) (none) Bangle. Silver. Poor condition. Small piece missing. Found with U.7624, 7575, 7567
7624 (none) (none) B17405 Bowl. Copper. [drawing 2:5] Where are field notes?
7635 (none) (none) (none) Stone vase. Calcite. White. Type XXXIX = RC.89.
7659 (none) (none) B17240 Bottle. Glazed. Originally blue. Bleached white. 2 Handles one on either side to receive straps to which the bottle must originally have been attached. On either side of bottle from neck to base a groove 15mm wide and projecting ridge on either side of the groove. Ridge widened at the base to allow the pot to stand upright. Broken and mended. Type 762=P.221 Not in Tab anal. [Tabular Analysis?]

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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.