Context Title: House I     
Context Name (Excavation): House I     House 1
Context Name (Publication): No. 2 Straight Street No. 4 Straight Street     House 1 was the first trench Woolley set in area AH. It correlates largely with published houses No. 2 and No. 4 Straight Street
Context Description: Excavation house designation on the southeast side of Straight Street (originally called Division Street as it divided the first excavation house designations I, II, and III). This unit covered published houses No.2 and No. 4 Straight Street.1     
Season Number: 09: 1930-1931      
Culture/Period: Old Babylonian      
[1] Woolley did not leave behind a map of excavation house units. Field notes give some indication of where they were located and show the progress of excavation across area AH. Most excavation house designations (expressed in Roman numerals) contained two published houses (expressed by street name and door number), The excavation house units are here described in terms of the published houses they mostly or completely contained but the exact limits of each excavated house unit is not completely known.

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Objects: House I 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)
16080 (none) 1948,0423.85 (none) Clay tablet. Commercial. Date: Year when the exalted stela of Nin-lil was set up. Apparently a variant of Gimil-Sin 6 (SAKI 234) H.C. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16082 (none) 1948,0423.371 (none) Clay tablet. Commercial. (Underlying seal-impressions) Date: Year after the wall of the West was built.- Gimil-Sin 5 (SAKI 234) [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16099 (none) 1953,0411.58 (none) Clay tablet. Fragment. UET/V:68 [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16341 (none) 1931,1010.278 (none) Fish hook. Bronze. [drawing 1:1]
16430 (none) 1931,1010.173 (none) Terracotta relief. Plaque, imperfect and much worn. A woman, nude, bending forward and sucking liquor through a pipe fron a vase set on the ground; behind her a male figure, broken away from the waist and right foot missing; engaged in copulation.
16537 (none) (none) (none) Clay cone. Fragment of base. (Libit-Ishtar) building of (E-gig-par) (cf. Ur Inscription 106).
16538 (none) (none) (none) Clay cone. Fragment of apex. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16580 (none) (none) (none) Clay tablet. Babylonian letter to: ^dSin-...; from ^dSin-...; H.C. 30/Xi, [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16591 (none) 1953,0411.150 (none) Clay tablet. Date: year Isin was conquered for the fourth time. Rim-Sin [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16598 52-30-139, 52-30-139 (none) (none) Clay tablet. Fifth? year after Isin was captured Rim-Sin. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16785 31-43-494 (none) (none) Copper knife. Tang broken and part missing. Type _ [drawing 1:1]
16791 (none) (none) (none) Grey limestone plaque. Representing upper portion of human cheek. Eye, eyebrows and hair on face. Carved similarly on both sides. Perforated for suspension. [drawing 1:1 shows Egyptian eye of Horus and indicates perforation at left of eye]
16816 (none) (none) (none) Clay Tablet. Babylonian Letter. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
17005 31-43-139 (none) (none) Beads. 2 hematite lentoids. 1 agate lentoid. 1 jasper? Double conoid. 1 Quartz barrel. Glass paste ring beads. 1 fluted glass paste double conoid with raised ends.
17204A 47-29-123 (none) (none) [A-C] 3 clay tablets. (A) Commercial: receipt. Date: Ibi-Sin (Ur Inscription 200). [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
17204B (none) (none) (none) [A-C] 3 clay tablets. (A) Commercial: receipt. Date: Ibi-Sin (Ur Inscription 200). [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
17204C (none) (none) (none) [A-C] 3 clay tablets. (A) Commercial: receipt. Date: Ibi-Sin (Ur Inscription 200). [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
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Media: House I Export: JSON - XML - CSV

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Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Ur_Notes_v2_p005c Ur_Notes_v2_p005c (none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Ur_Notes_v3_p008 Ur_Notes_v3_p008 (none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Ur_Notes_v3_p009 Ur_Notes_v3_p009 (none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Ur_Notes_v3_p010 Ur_Notes_v3_p010 (none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Ur_Notes_v3_p011 Ur_Notes_v3_p011 (none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Ur_Notes_v3_p012 Ur_Notes_v3_p012 (none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Ur_Notes_v3_p013 Ur_Notes_v3_p013 (none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Ur_Notes_v3_p014 Ur_Notes_v3_p014 (none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Ur_Notes_v3_p015 Ur_Notes_v3_p015 (none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Ur_Notes_v3_p016 Ur_Notes_v3_p016 (none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Ur_Notes_v3_p017 Ur_Notes_v3_p017 (none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Ur_Notes_v3_p018 Ur_Notes_v3_p018 (none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Ur_Notes_v3_p019 Ur_Notes_v3_p019 (none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Ur_Notes_v3_p020 Ur_Notes_v3_p020 (none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Ur_Notes_v3_p026 Ur_Notes_v3_p026 (none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Ur_Notes_v3_p028 Ur_Notes_v3_p028 (none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Ur_Notes_v3_p030 Ur_Notes_v3_p030 (none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Ur_Notes_v3_p031 Ur_Notes_v3_p031 (none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Ur_Notes_v3_p032 Ur_Notes_v3_p032 (none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Ur_Notes_v3_p033c Ur_Notes_v3_p033c (none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Ur_Notes_v3_p034c Ur_Notes_v3_p034c (none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Ur_Notes_v3_p036 Ur_Notes_v3_p036 (none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Ur_Notes_v3_p037 Ur_Notes_v3_p037 (none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Ur_Notes_v3_p038 Ur_Notes_v3_p038 (none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Ur_Notes_v3_p039 Ur_Notes_v3_p039 (none)
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