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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 7752 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet. Large fragment. |
| 7753 | 47-29-62, 47-29-62 | (none) | (none) | Tablet. Large fragment of large tablet (4 cent thick) of accounts. |
| 7754 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet (fragment). Large fragment of large tablet. cf. Tilmun Epic. |
| 7755 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet (fragment). "Dedication"? [crossed out] Date list. ?? with U7754 [crossed out] |
| 7756 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet. Content similar to U.7725 and 7736. |
| 7757 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet. Fragment. Dedication by Idin-Dagan. cf. U.7728. |
| 7758 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet. Dedication ?? U.7759 perhaps belongs?? | |
| 7759 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet. Dedication?? U.7758 perhaps belongs?? |
| 7760 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet. Literary (Religious?) text. Ending Rim-Sin... | |
| 7761 | 52-30-211, 52-30-211 | (none) | (none) | Tablet (fragmentary) [length unknown] |
| 7762 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet (fragment). Piece of a large table of square roots. |
| 7763 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Small fragments of tablets. Belonging with or found with lot U.7725-7762. | |
| 7764 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Small fragments of tablets. Belonging with or found with lot U.7725-7762. | |
| 7765 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Small fragments of tablets. Belonging with or found with lot U.7725-7762. | |
| 7766 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Small fragments of tablets. Belonging with or found with lot U.7725-7762. | |
| 7781 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay cone (fragm) Dedication to [^dNin]-ezen+la (cf. found. tablet of Kurigalzu). a reference to E Kis-ser-gal cf. also Lipit-Ishtar cone, U.7702 HC.28 |
| 7782 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Fragment of baked tablet | |
| 7783 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Pebble Inscribed ^dI-bi with ruled margin as if a longer inscription had been intended, for seal B |
| 7784 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Seal impression Shape as U.7714 Seal of Ilushu-ibisha son of Siniqishum Inscription identical with U.7700; shows also figure of worshipper. Hammurabi |
| 7786A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablets (A) 2 considerable fragments of a long tablet which join (similar to U.7795A). (B) Fragment of account tablet with date = Sumuilum (cf. U.7795G?) (C) see U.7795B. (D) see U.7795A. Ur Texts V 357 722 223 882 721 442 411 592 873 730 731 | |
| 7786B | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablets (A) 2 considerable fragments of a long tablet which join (similar to U.7795A). (B) Fragment of account tablet with date = Sumuilum (cf. U.7795G?) (C) see U.7795B. (D) see U.7795A. Ur Texts V 357 722 223 882 721 442 411 592 873 730 731 |
| 7786C | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablets (A) 2 considerable fragments of a long tablet which join (similar to U.7795A). (B) Fragment of account tablet with date = Sumuilum (cf. U.7795G?) (C) see U.7795B. (D) see U.7795A. Ur Texts V 357 722 223 882 721 442 411 592 873 730 731 |
| 7786D | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablets (A) 2 considerable fragments of a long tablet which join (similar to U.7795A). (B) Fragment of account tablet with date = Sumuilum (cf. U.7795G?) (C) see U.7795B. (D) see U.7795A. Ur Texts V 357 722 223 882 721 442 411 592 873 730 731 |
| 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) |
| 7787Y | (none) | (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) |
| 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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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