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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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U Number	Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)	Museum Number (BM Registration Number)	Museum Number (UPM B-number)	Description (Catalog Card)
7104B	(none)	(none)	B16594	[A-C] 3 clay vases. Light drab. Type XVI. 195. =L.
7104C	(none)	(none)	B16593B	[A-C] 3 clay vases. Light drab. Type XVI. 195. =L.
7105	(none)	(none)	B16642	Clay vase. Light drab. Band of black paint round rim. Type [CCXXII crossed out] 704. L.
7106	(none)	(none)	B16629	Clay bowl. Design roughly painted in black on ground. Found inverted; under it, dates. Type CCLXXVIII. =L.
7144A	(none)	(none)	(none)	Human head, pinkish limestone. Carved in the round: the head clean shaven, the features markedly indivdual. in B U.7144 is R.1.265 [in different hand]
7145	(none)	(none)	B16226	Stone bowl. Fragment of Dark steatite. On the outside, a row of scorpions carved in low relief.
7500	(none)	1928,1009.431	(none)	Stone vase. Fragment. Blue steatite. Carved in low relief. On left, portion of man's left arm and waist and on right, a beast with head bent downwards, one horn complete one fragmentary. Above, fragment of a scorpion? Possibly a portion of fragmentary vase of similar material in low relief U.231 found in 1925 dedicated by Rimush of Agade c.2650 BC. [drawing 1:1] BM could not trace this object in May 1935. (proper to Vol. VII)
7501	(none)	(none)	(none)	Fibula. Bronze. Semi-circular, ribbed holder, each rib divided into 3 small bands. Clasp cracked at one end. [drawing 1:1]
7503	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. White calcite. Minor deity greeting major deity? Inscribed: Isib ^dNin-Subur (=Priest of Ninsubur, or nom. prop.) SAL-Ku-a [crossed out] Nin-a ba-ku(?)-ma(?)-ti
7505	(none)	(none)	(none)	Bangle. Carnelian, lapis lazuli, white paste and crystal beads. 4 spacers, 2 of bone pierced 6 times and 2 of lapis lazuli pierced 3 times. 133 beads in all.
7506	(none)	1928,1009.164	(none)	Earring. Gold foil. Semi-circular pin on crescent-shaped bag. [Drawing 1:1]
7507	(none)	(none)	B16826	12 duck beads. White paste. All pierced doubly. One fragmentary. [drawing 1:1]
7508	(none)	(none)	B17101	Weight. Lentoid. Granite. Seven incised marks on the surface IIII III Type II
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.
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]
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

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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)