Giparu | KP

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      

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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)
6683A 98-9-66 (none) (none) [A-B] 2 fibulae. Bronze. Neo-Babylonian. [drawing 1:1]
6748E 47-29-442 (none) (none) (none)
6728 47-29-187, 47-29-187 (none) (none) Clay tablet. Business of sesame farmers. The diviners of Ur. Year when the priest en-unu ( ) of Innina was invested. H.C.
6718 47-29-153 (none) (none) Clay tablet and envelope. Dated: Ibi-Sin. Accoutns? Seal of: Ibi-Sin, mighty king, king of Ur, king the 4 regions of the world Liburanni-Sin minister of the children (of the king), is they servant. H.C.
6718A 47-29-153 (none) (none) (none)
6706 47-29-12 (none) (none) Fragment of clay tablet. Contract. Official deed. Two seals of servants of Ibi-Sin. 10) Seal of Dada palesi of Nippur same as U.6343. 20) Seal of En-temen-ni-e, the sukkal (messenger) servant of his (the king's) children H.C.
6706A 47-29-12 (none) (none) (none)
6960 47-29-075 (none) (none) Clay sealing with seal impression. dGimil dSin, mighty king of Ur, king of the 4 regions of the world - Igianna-ge-zu the minister, son of Araddani the judge, is thy servant. H.C.
6792 31-43-354 (none) (none) Rams head. Baked clay. White glaze.
6642 31-17-265 (none) (none) Bronze bow. Fragment. Broken in 3 places. E.
6805 31-16-169 (none) (none) Clay bowl. Type XC in album ? Persian, =P.37
2885 29-174-5 (none) (none) Clay vase. Buffware: round cheeks and broad mouth. Persian period. Type CLXI, =P.56
2884A 29-174-4 (none) (none) Clay vase. Buffware wide mouthed. Persian level. Type CLX, =P.55b
3371A 29-174-21 (none) (none) Pottery measures (?) Funnel tubes similar to the bushel of cuneiform inscriptions: (would be filled standing on ground) (A) has incised rope pattern on neck and shoulder and lip broken. (B) shows traces of similar design but neck and lip missing.
3055 29-174-15 (none) (none) Pottery jar. Straightish-sided buff jar with shiny lip.
3074 29-174-14 (none) (none) Clay pot. Of drab ware with slightly curved sides. Poor quality roughly made. Type CXC (not p).
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)
2758 (none) (none) (none) Kudurru. Property: House of Sin-she-me Column I - 28 lines - Almost all defaced. Column II - 28 lines - [curses] good. Column III - 15 lines - half defaced. (Celephon. Illegible) Cassite period. Found with U.2760. H.C.
2767 (none) (none) (none) Clay tablet. Neo-Babylonian Period. Incantation by Samas, king of heaven and earth, the great judge. Obverse: 11 lines. Lower part broken. Reverse: defaced. H.C.
2770 (none) (none) (none) Diorite statue of Dungi. Small inscribed fragment. andof (?)Simu(ru?). Dungi mighty hero, king of Ur, king of the 4 regions of the world, dNin-sun of Ur (to her?) he (built or presented??) Two round holes for small copper rivets have been bored in the inscription. One still filled with copper. H.C.
2777 (none) (none) (none) Clay tablet. Unbaked. Oberse: defaced. Reverse: Two lines partly defaced, written in the length, refers to inspection of foundation? (u-si-si u-ti) H.C.
2794 (none) (none) (none) Cone of Kudur Mabug. Text complete round stem (head is missing.) H.C.
2801 (none) 1927,1003.17 (none) Cone of Kudur Mabug. Only the stem, one section badly broken. To nannar his king He gives details on 10) restoration of Ebar-ra;, 20) Door of the great gate of Larsa, 80) peace to all inhabitants, 40) Ur and Larsa abide in? for his life and that of Warad-Sin his son, king of Larsa: he, 10) in the ( ) ki-temen, the place of his joy he introduced ( 1, 20) it stood in front of the god, 30) the e-sa-kalamma (house peace of the land) it is established... For which he expects protection from Nannar and Ningal... H.C.
2816 (none) (none) (none) Clay tablet. Fragment. Neo-Babylonian syllabary - list of signs Zi and of short sentences ki-na --
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.
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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)
Field Photographs Field Photographs GN0637 GN0637 (none)
Field Photographs Field Photographs GN0641 GN0641 (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)
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)
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Woolley, Leonard. (1974) Ur Excavations VI; The Ur III Period, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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Woolley, L. and Mallowan, Max. (1962) Ur Excavations IX; The Neo-Babylonian and Persian Periods, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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

Woolley, Leonard. (1965 ) Ur Excavations VIII; The Kassite Period and the period of the Assyrian Kings, Oxford: Oxford University Press.