Context Title: Giparu | KP     
Context Name (Excavation): KP; King's Palace     
Context Name (Publication): Gig-par-ku; Giparu; E.GIG.PAR     
Context Description: The excavation area given the abbreviation KP was eventually found to be the site of the ancient building known as the giparu (alternatively e-gig-par or gig-par-ku). Mostly dedicated to the goddess Nin-gal, Nanna's consort, it was also in various periods the residence of the entu priestess. The abbreviation KP, however, stands for King's Palace because Woolley initially thought this might be the site of Shulgi's palace, the ehursag. The giparu was a very long-lived building, though it underwent many changes over many centuries. Most striking were the changes in the Neo-Babylonian period when Woolley shows it combining with the dublalmah to the east. He believed that by this point the building was not sufficient to house the Ningal temple and the entu priestess together, and thus the so-called Palace of Belshaltinannar was constructed outside the temenos specifically to house the priestess herself. At times Woolley refers to the giparu as the Great Ningal Temple, which can be confusing as the Kassite and Neo-Bablyonian Ningal temples had moved onto the ziggurat terrace to the north of the giparu (Area HD). Furthermore, parts of the giparu were excavated under area abbreviations other than KP in season 3 when the full extents of the building were only just coming to light. The northern portion originally carried the abbreviation HDB and the southeastern portion, SF.     
Season Number: 03: 1924-1925      
Season Number: 04: 1925-1926      

Objects: Giparu | KP 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)
(none) (none) (none) B17169 (none)
6691 (none) (none) B16682 Stela. Blue grey. Fragment. Above: 3 male fig[ure]s in relief, body full face, head arms and legs in profile, clothed in flounced kaukanes sheep skin coats. Right hands over breast, heads turned to the left but faces are lost. Traces of finely cut hair on back of head of middle figure. Dress typically Sumerian. Below waist consists of 2 tiers of wide flounces, 6 pleats covering front of body. Above waist garment rendered by fine and numerous parallel wavy lines. Below the male figs is a second tier of female figures of which only 2 remain. Primitive inscription above heads. Female figs are in the same attitude as male; head in profile, body full face. Figs badly mutilated and lost below breast. Heads look to left, hands of first female crossed over breast, fingers pointing up to shoulders. Both shoulders covered by garment represented by fine wavy lines as on upper portion of male figs. Hair tucked up in a bunch round right ear and flowing down side. Traces of unsmoothed edges & holes indicate that outline of figs was made by a drill. cf. Stela of the Vultures Pre-Sargonid. Broken inscription: ...ka, he has filled abundantly, the Eanaka, he has replenished. H.C. Linear writing of Ur Nina of Lagash. (Found out of position). E. [A note appears on the back of the catalog card, writing largely illegible]
18526 (none) (none) B16676.95 Limestone relief. Fragment from the stela of Ur-Engur. Apparently part of the bottom register. On the right was a seated figure of the god, facing left, on a throne on a round base: only part of the front of the skirt preserved. The front of him on the base is a naked priest with a fly whisk. In part of the base a curiously elongated figure of a priest holding a fold of cloak and receiving the king of whom only the head and one arm and part of the shoulder remains: he seems to be carrying some burden on his shoulders.
6612 (none) (none) B16665 Alabaster stela. Fragment: broken but complete. Lunar disk. Religious? Scene. Three figures only remain in relief on the left - shaven male figure, right arm extended, upper arm only remains. Lower part of body fragmentary. Figure is apparently in profile. Middle figure head lost: left arm mutilated and lower portion of dress lost: arms and apparently head in profile but body full face. Figure is clothed in flounced kaunakas skirt, 6 tiers of flounces showing. Dress covered upper arm but left forearm exposed. Left hand rests on chest, right arm held upright and hand lost. Behind, a clean shaven bald-headed male figure, 3/4 face, left arm held below breast; right arm bent at elbow and held upright carrying an object which may be a torch. Left hand holds a sword which runs diagonally across left side. Figure is apparently draped in a thin waist cloth, mutilated below waist. Typical Sumerian head. At back fragment of an inscription.
6670 (none) (none) B16635A Ring base. Clay. Type CLXXV in album. Kurigalzu?
6610 (none) (none) B16626 Clay vase. Light drab.
6813 (none) (none) B16605 Clay vase. Miniature. Peg bottom. Larsa.
(none) (none) (none) B16600C (none)
(none) (none) (none) B16600B (none)
(none) (none) (none) B16600A (none)
6819 (none) (none) B16598 Clay vase. Light drab. 4 nobs round mouth. Type. Larsa period.
6633 (none) (none) B16582 Clay vase. Broken. Light drab. Type CXCII. In album ? Neo-Babylonian.
6885 (none) (none) B16579 Clay vase. Type.
6357A (none) (none) B16568 [A-M] Diorite door-socket of Bur-Sin. To Nin-gal, his lady. Bur-Sin, the mighty, king of Ur, king of the 4 regions of the world her Gig-par-azag has built, for his life he has presented. Cf. U.3031, 6334. And a fragment of a second door-socket. 7 to B. [Baghdad] 6 to E. [Expedition]
6353C (none) (none) B16567 [A-G] Door Socket of Ur-nammu. Diorite. To Ningal his lady Ur-Nammu, the mighty man, king of Ur, King of Sumer and Akkad her Gig-par-azag-ga, has built. 4 to E [UPM and BM] 3 to B [Baghdad]
6738 (none) (none) B16566, B16566 Door-socket. To dGimil iluSin King of Ur? etc? his god, (Ni?)-kal-la shakkanak his servant has built his house (shrine, temple?). H.C.
6334 (none) (none) B16565 Door-socket of Bur-Sin. To Nin-gal. Construction of Gig-par-azag. Same inscription U.295, U.3031 [The following is a note on the back of the catalog card] For catalog of Vol VII.
6354 (none) (none) B16564 Diorite Door Socket of Ur-Nammu to Nin-e-gal. To Ninegal his lady, Ur-Nammu, the mighty man, king of Ur, king of Sumer and Akkad, has built her house. 1 to B. 1 to E. H.C.
6354A (none) (none) B16564 (none)
3317 (none) (none) B16563, B16563 Brick. Probably Larsa counting board. [drawing]
2833B (none) (none) B16547 Brick of Silli-Adad. Broken -Inscription complete (cf. U.2669) :To Nannar, his king, Si-li dAdad who takes care of Nippur, patesi of Ur, Larsa Lagash, and the land og Gish-ta-al-laki (or Semetic: Is-ta-atla?), the foundation of E-Temen-ni-ilm I ordered to its place, I restored. H.C.
2817 (none) (none) B16544, B16544 Brick of En-an-na-tum-ma. Fragment. Same inscription as U.2569 except line 3 which is omitted. H.C.
6743C (none) (none) B16543C [A-E] Bricks of Enannatum. The usual stamp (U.2569) has a variant 1.2: En-sal-me-nunuz-zid dNannar. the pure zirru priest of Nannar (cf. SAKI. P.206 note [illegible]) One 1/2 to B. 4 wholes to B.
6743B (none) (none) B16543B, B16543A [A-E] Bricks of Enannatum. The usual stamp (U.2569) has a variant 1.2: En-sal-me-nunuz-zid dNannar. the pure zirru priest of Nannar (cf. SAKI. P.206 note [illegible]) One 1/2 to B. 4 wholes to B.
6743A (none) (none) B16543A [A-E] Bricks of Enannatum. The usual stamp (U.2569) has a variant 1.2: En-sal-me-nunuz-zid dNannar. the pure zirru priest of Nannar (cf. SAKI. P.206 note [illegible]) One 1/2 to B. 4 wholes to B.
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