No. 3 Straight Street

Context Title: No. 3 Straight Street     
Context Name (Publication): No. 3 Straight Street1     
Context Description: A large and in many respects a typical house, though its ground-plan was made somewhat irregular by the fact that it was built up against earlier houses and its site was not rectangular. It was well built, the burnt brickwork (bricks 0.27 m. X 0.165 m. X 0.075 m.) rising in the street wall to 1.70 m. and in the internal walls to 1.10 m. above pavement level; it had a long life and underwent a good many minor alterations and the walls were still in use after the floor had risen 1.85 m. above the original. Its foundation would seem to have been later than that of Nos. 3 and 5 Church Lane and of No. 5 Straight Street, judging by the bonding of the walls, but contemporary with the Hendur-sag chapel; the tablets found in its ruins ranged from the 27th year of Sulgi to the 15th year of Rim-Sin,3 2 and although the building probably did not itself go back to the Sulgi period it need not have been very much later (for the main walls of Nos. 3 and 5 Church Lane were of Third Dynasty date) and while the main floor level to which our excavations went down must come at least very early in the Larsa period the building as such shared in the general destruction of the quarter in the reign of Samsu-iluna. 2     
Culture/Period: Isin-Larsa1     
[1] Imported from BM list of contexts.
[2] UE 7 p.159

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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)
16073 (none) (none) (none) Clay tablet. Commercial. Date: Year when Ibi-Sin, King of Ur, made for Inanna the drum (called) Nin-igi-zi-bar-ra Ibi-Sin? (Ur Inscription 212) [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16088 (none) (none) (none) Clay tablet. Commercial. Date: Year after the high-priest of Eridu was... Dungi 27 (SAKI 230) [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16090 (none) (none) (none) Clay tablet UET/V:488 [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16093 (none) 1953,0411.198 (none) Clay tablet. Date Nu-warad d...sin lugal-Warad-Sin. UET/V:587 [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16093A (none) (none) (none) (none)
16093B (none) (none) (none) (none)
16096 52-30-158, 52-30-157 (none) (none) Clay tablet. Date: mu gis tukul ba-an-sig UET/V:397 [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16097 52-30-182, 52-30-182 (none) (none) Clay tablet UET/V:493 [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16326 (none) 1931,1010.25 (none) Cylinder seal. Black hematite. Tip missing. Presentation scene: 3 standing figures. The first has both hands raised in greeting., conical cap rising in tiers, a short pig-tail, and flounced kaukanes coat. Approaching is a male figure clothed in a short coat which only comes down to the knees, and carrying a club in his right hand. He also wears a brimmed cap. Behind him a second figure similarly clad carrying an offering in left hand and a basket(?) in the right. Each of the last 2 figures seems to have an animal skin over the short coat.
16383A (none) (none) (none) [A-B] Pair of earrings. Bronze with grape(?) decoration - 4 bunches pendant from the ring. [drawing 1:1]
16384 (none) 1931,1010.269 (none) Beads. Minute silver and glass balls.
16433A 31-43-449 (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Fragment. Plaque, painted red, of a bull-legged demon. He stands left with body in profile and head full face holding a staff with trident head.
16504A (none) (none) (none) [A-B] 2 clay tablets. Letters. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16504B (none) (none) (none) [A-B] 2 clay tablets. Letters. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16505 (none) (none) (none) Clay tablet. Commercial. Date: mu ugnim unu^KI Gis tukul ba-an-sig Year when the host of Ereck was smitten with arms. Rim-Sin 15 (orthog. variant of Ur Inscription 253). [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16521 (none) (none) (none) Clay tablet. (fragment). [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16531 31-43-250, 31-43-250 (none) (none) Mace head, white calcite. Fragment. Naram-Sin: dedication to KA-DI. H.C. 30/III,4
16533 31-43-253, 31-43-253 (none) (none) White calcite bowl, small fragment. Ur-(Nammu). H.C. 30/III, 5.
16534 (none) (none) (none) Clay tablet. (in envelope) Commercial. Date: Year when the host of Erech was smitten with arms Rim-Sin 15 (Ur Inscr 253).[CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16961A (none) (none) (none) Terracotta relief. 2 fragments only of horses. Very fine work with much of the paint left (red and black). Parts of one or two rectangular plaques pierced at the corners to fix it to the wall. [drawing 1:1]
16961B (none) (none) (none) Terracotta relief. (see 16961A) [drawing 1:1]
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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)
Ur Excavations VII; The Old Babylonian Period Ur Excavations VII; The Old Babylonian Period 1976 Woolley, L. and M. Mallowan (none)
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References

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.

Woolley, L. and M. Mallowan . (1976) Ur Excavations VII; The Old Babylonian Period, Oxford: Oxford University Press.