Context Title: ES     
Context Name (Publication): E-nun-mah     
Context Name (Excavation): Enunmah South; Emuriana Site     
Context Description: The abbreviation ES almost certainly stands for Enunmah South, though it may also have to do with the building called Emuriana, referenced in a disturbed Kassite door socket found in the area. Legrain lists ES as the Egigpar of Nabonidus, SW end, and ES, or at least ESB did extend into the later remains of the Dublalmah, which at that time was part of the NeoBabylonian Giparu. The abbreviation ES first appeared in season one as a supplement to Trial Trench B (TTB.ES) when the trench was expanded to reveal the extents of the building found to be called E-nun-mah. In season 3, the abbreviation shortened simply to ES, used for the majority of the enunmah building. The Enunmah changed in layout and likely in usage through the many centuries of its existence. Initially a storage building called the ga-nun-mah, it seems to have been used as a temple, the e-nun-mah, in the Neo-Babylonian period. Some lists of excavation abbreviations equate ES with the Dublalmah site. This is because the southern Enunmah is just east of the Dublalmah. Area ESB is still more closely associated with the eastern edge of the dublalmah and likely into it.     
Season Number: 03: 1924-1925      Begun in season 1 as TTB, extended to TTB.ES, then only ES in season 3

Objects: ES Export: JSON - XML - CSV

Object U Number Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) Museum Number (BM Registration Number) Museum Number (UPM B-number) Description (Catalog Card)
2779 (none) (none) B16498 Baked brick with drawing diagram or game (Cp. U.2728) Two finger deep holes about 4cm. [drawing 1:2]
1165 (none) (none) B15885 Black stone gate socket, with long but incomplete inscr. running round the side. Beginning and end lost, partly by the breaking off of one side of the stone, partly by flaking away the surface. 42 ll remain, recording the building of an archive-house (dub-la-mah), annexed to the court of justice, by Bur-Sin I, king of Ur. The text ends with blessings and curses upon those who should respect or destroy the king's monument. Photo 147 RI.71
2891 (none) (none) B16465, B16465 Brick of Bur Sin/ Building temple of En-ki the Apsu. (SAKI p.196. Brick C) H.C.
2894 (none) (none) (none) Brick with cross lines of a plan or game. [drawing]
2811 (none) (none) (none) Brick with drawing game or plan. Frag. [drawing 1:2]
17208 (none) (none) (none) Brick. Sin-batatsu-iqbi; rebuilding of the ziggurat, E-lugal-galga-sisa. (Ur insc. 168. The new example confirms the restorations in LL.3,4, and 8)
2870 (none) 1927,1003.111 (none) Bronze dagger. Thin metal : half piece pierced for fixing handle in the material good condition, hand broken but all complete [drawing 1:5]
2867 (none) (none) (none) Bronze dog figurine. Good condition except for tail blistered. [drawing 1:1]
3107 (none) (none) (none) Bronze dog. Seated in expectant attitude. Condition of metal poor. [drawing 1:1]
2853 (none) (none) (none) Bronze dog. Seated. [drawing 1:1]
2866 (none) 1927,1003.97 (none) Bronze inlay. Fragment of thin metal plate, engraved: stream of water from figure of Ea or Gilgamesh [drawing 1:1]
2910 (none) (none) (none) Bronze pendant. Shaped as animal's head: perhaps calf.
2852 (none) (none) (none) Bronze pin. Waisted head: in good condition.
3195 (none) (none) (none) Bronze snake.
2854 (none) (none) (none) Bronze statuette. Standing bearded figure with long hair and bottle in hand. [drawing 1:1]
2757 (none) 1927,1003.9 (none) Clay cylindrical column of Sin-balatsuigbi. Copy of inscriptions of Bur-Sin recording the foundation of 3 statues Ivth column in Semitic: Copy of bricks from? Ur work of Bur-Sin king of Ur, (which) when searching for the plan lines of Egish-shirgal, Sinbalatsuigbi, vice regent of Ur (has found). Nabushumiddina son of Idin-an-ni-u. priest (kal-lu) of Sin, for inspection has singled and inscribed. On the top: (In front) of the shrine of Enlil. H.C. (A15, p384)
2919 (none) (none) (none) Clay label with Aramaic name. H.C. [drawing]
3004 (none) (none) (none) Clay label. III Ur Dynasty. Pa-( )ama-gi-nald
564 (none) (none) (none) Clay pot. Greenish drab clay. Wheelmade. Type XLVII.
563 (none) (none) (none) Clay pot. Greenish-drab clay. Wheelmade. Type XLVII.
3005 (none) (none) (none) Clay tablet (Damaged). Comptability. Larsa Dynasty.
2860A (none) 1930,1213.657 (none) Clay Tablet. About BC 2700 (Period of Agade Kings). Text: 1 sheep, 5 pieces of bread gu, 5 pots of drink (sur-ra), 50 Fishes (A-min) 45 birds, 120 qa of barley. Present of the king-for the king. This is 2860 (1) [A] for 2860 (2-20) [B-T] see UET.II
2860B (none) (none) (none) Clay Tablet. About BC 2700 (Period of Agade Kings). Text: 1 sheep, 5 pieces of bread gu, 5 pots of drink (sur-ra), 50 Fishes (A-min) 45 birds, 120 qa of barley. Present of the king-for the king. This is 2860 (1) [A] for 2860 (2-20) [B-T] see UET.II
2860C (none) (none) (none) Clay Tablet. About BC 2700 (Period of Agade Kings). Text: 1 sheep, 5 pieces of bread gu, 5 pots of drink (sur-ra), 50 Fishes (A-min) 45 birds, 120 qa of barley. Present of the king-for the king. This is 2860 (1) [A] for 2860 (2-20) [B-T] see UET.II
2860D (none) (none) (none) Clay Tablet. About BC 2700 (Period of Agade Kings). Text: 1 sheep, 5 pieces of bread gu, 5 pots of drink (sur-ra), 50 Fishes (A-min) 45 birds, 120 qa of barley. Present of the king-for the king. This is 2860 (1) [A] for 2860 (2-20) [B-T] see UET.II
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Media: ES Export: JSON - XML - CSV

Media Media Title Title Label Author Omeka Label
Ur Excavations VI; The Ur III Period Ur Excavations VI; The Ur III Period 1974 Woolley, Leonard (none)
Ur Excavations IX; The Neo-Babylonian and Persian Periods Ur Excavations IX; The Neo-Babylonian and Persian Periods 1962 Woolley, L. and Mallowan, Max (none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Ur_Notes_v2_p030 Ur_Notes_v2_p030 (none)
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