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)
7509 (none) 1935,0113.754 (none) Animal head. Ass? Grotesque. Dark greenish clay. Fragmentary. Originally a pot ornament in high relief. Fragment of rounded body of pot to which it was attached still remains. Found with ovoid granite weight U7508 and pot types CCLXXVII, CCXIV
7510 (none) (none) (none) Child's rattle. Baked clay. 2 flattened hemispherical parts joined mouth to mouth, indented circumference. Pierced through the middle. Common in IIIrd Dynasty cemetery at Diqdiqqeh.
7511 (none) (none) (none) Vase. Greenish drab. Type CXX,=p.121 variant. Slightly higher neck and thicker rim. Found with types CCXLI and CCLXXVI and fibula U.7501
7512 (none) (none) (none) Clay vase. Greenish drab. Type CCXLI = P125. in album. prob. Neo-Bab. Grave not in Tab. anal [Tabular analysis?] Found with types CCXLI [crossed out] CCLXXVI and CXX and Fibula U7501.
7513 30-12-191 (none) (none) Clay bowl. Reddish. Type CCLXXVI. =P.24 Found with types CCXLI and CCXX and Fibula U7501. Cf U7511 and U7512. Grave not in tab. anal. [Tabular analysis?]
7514 (none) (none) (none) Clay vase. Light drab. Type CCLXXIII [crossed out] CCCII.
7515 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Traces of glaze bleached white. Fragmentary below breast. Female supporting in left hand a harp which leans over the left shoulder. Hair done up in a bag with fillet over forehead; thick plaits of hair on either side of head, falling as far as shoulder. Female wears a necklace, and right hand is apparently engaged in playing the harp while the left hand supports the harp. [drawing 1:1]
7516 (none) (none) (none) Mace head. Granite. [drawing cut out, only label 1:1 still visible] Found with U7518 glass cylinder seal. Found with U7517 and clay written impression
7517 (none) (none) (none) Mace head. Black marble. [drawing cut out, only label 1:1 still visible] Found with U7518 glass cylinder seal. Found with U7516 and clay written inscription.
7518 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Glass. Bleached white. Geometric designs, criss cross and lozenge in four panels. Found with mace heads U7516 U7517.
7519 (none) 1928,1009.468 (none) Zebu. Unbaked clay. Species of buffaloid cattle. Legs missing. [drawing 1:1]
7520 30-12-178 (none) (none) Clay vase. Light drab. Upper portion cracked. Type CCLXVIII.=IL.22.a
7521 (none) (none) (none) Clay vase. Light drab. Type CCLXXIX=P58
7522 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black hematite. Ishtar and attendant. Presentation of worshiper to Nannar. attendant is dwarfish nude? female with thick hair. Attributes: crescent moon, sceptre (with serpent head?) For illustration cf. field note on G. 12. 2100 BC. And pot type XIX
7523 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Marble. grey. Inscribed but faint. Two deities with hands upraised and between them armed warrior and sceptre with serpent's head. [drawing of scene]
7524 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. hematite. Black. Inscribed. PA(?) dEN-ZU PA(>)-Sin warad ^dDun-pa-sag. u^d nin-har-sag-ga. Servant of Dun-pa-sag and of Ninharsag. For illustration cf. Field note on G.4. God with high horned headdress wearing flounced kaunakes skirt carrying sword in left-hand meeting second deity wearing short tunic only down to knees. This deity has a short pigtail behind head protruding horizontally over the shoulder. He is followed by a deity also in a short tunic, wearing high boots and bearing a mace Assyrian? Attributes: 7 Pleiades and crescent moon and goose.
7526A (none) (none) (none) [A-F] 6 arrowheads. Iron. Parts of wooden shaft remain. Late Kassite or Assyrian? Found with 2 silver earrings and pot type CXLIX.
7526C (none) (none) (none) [A-F] 6 arrowheads. Iron. Parts of wooden shaft remain. Late Kassite or Assyrian? Found with 2 silver earrings and pot type CXLIX.
7526F (none) 1928,1009.268 (none) [A-F] 6 arrowheads. Iron. Parts of wooden shaft remain. Late Kassite or Assyrian? Found with 2 silver earrings and pot type CXLIX.
7526 (none) (none) (none) Earring. Gold. Crescent shaped. Semi-circular pin, detached at top. [This number was possibly duplicated in the field][drawing 1:1]
7527 30-12-211 (none) (none) Clay vase. Light drab. Type CCLXXXII=IL.118 found with type XX,
7528 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Shell. White. Inscribed [drawing of inscription]. Servant of Nin... 2 heroes attacking rampant lion one grasping it by the tail. Between the lion and a hero a monkey
7529 (none) 1928,0109.15 (none) Cylinder seal. White marble. Two heroes attacking rampant lion. One grasps lion by tail. Palm tree rising from pot? Linear figures.
7530 (none) (none) (none) Weight Limestone. Grey. Lentoid, flat on one sides. III marks on cylindrical portion. Type II.
7532A (none) (none) (none) [A-B] Pair of earrings. Silver. Late Kassite? [drawing 1:1] Also with Pot Type CXLIX Found with 7 iron arrowheads U [7526?]

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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.