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)
7727 (none) (none) (none) Tablet. Nearly perfect. Accounts... Hammurabi
7728 (none) (none) (none) Tablet. Copy of a dedication by Idin Dagan (list of tablets of this class: Ur Nammu 7746; Ibi Sin 7737; Idin Dagan 7728, 7757; Kudur Mabug 7733, 7743; Rim Sin 7734, 7747, 7749, 7751, 7760?; Warad-Sn 7732).
7729 52-30-211 (none) (none) Tablet. With figures. cf. 7726.
7730 (none) (none) (none) Tablet.
7731 (none) (none) (none) Tablet. Table of cubic roots from 1 to 60 (broken) e.g. 12167 -e 23 ba-di-e.
7732 (none) (none) (none) Tablet. Dedication? of Warad?-Sin. cf. 7728.
7733 (none) (none) (none) Tablet. (large fragment) Dedication of Kudurmabug. cf. 7728.
7734 (none) (none) (none) Tablet. Dedication [crossed out] Hymn of Rim-Sin. cf. U.7728.
7735 (none) 1953,0411.271 (none) Tablet. Table of statistics?
7736 (none) (none) (none) Tablet. Contents similar to U.7725 and 7756.
7737 (none) (none) (none) Tablet. 3 dedications of Ibi-Sin (cf. U.7728) HC.74.
7738 (none) (none) (none) Tablet.
7739 (none) (none) (none) Tablet. (frags.) Belonging together? [with U.7740]
7740 (none) (none) (none) Tablet. (frag) Belonging together? [with U.7739]
7741 (none) (none) (none) Tablet. Large fragment of large tablet. Hymn?
7742 (none) (none) (none) Tablet. Table of square numbers from 1 to 60 (nearly perfect) e.g. 23 a-na 23 529.
7743 (none) (none) (none) Tablet. Dedication of Kudurmabug. cf. 7728
7744 (none) (none) (none) Tablet. Religious contents.
7745 (none) (none) (none) Tablet. Sib-mu pa(d)-da ^dGUSKIN, etc. Hymn to Rim-Sin?
7746 (none) (none) (none) Tablet. Archaic form of tablet. Kassite writing(?) Mentioning Ur ^dNammu(!) King of Ur. HC.70.
7747 (none) (none) (none) Tablet. Dedication [crossed out] Hymn of Rim Sin. cf. U.7728
7748 (none) (none) (none) Tablet.
7749 (none) (none) (none) Tablet. Dedication [crossed out] Hymn of Rim Sin. cf. U.7728.
7750 (none) (none) (none) Tablet. Large tablet. Top rt. corner missing.
7751 (none) (none) (none) Tablet. Dedication [crossed out] Hymn of Rim Sin. cf. U.7728.

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