Context Title: KPS Site | KPS     
Context Name (Excavation): KPS; King's Palace South     
Context Name (Publication): The KPS Site     
Context Description: This excavation area was designated Kings Palace South (KPS) because it explored walls that were south of the main giparu building (KP). Some of these late walls cut into earlier levels of the giparu in its southern portion. The walls were found to be of patchwork domestic structures, two houses (A to the south and B to the north) separated by a street (scanty remains of a House C were also found). They were formed mostly of broken and reused bricks of the Larsa/Old Babylonian period and probably dated to the Kassite period, repaired and reused into the Neo-Babylonian. Beneath these walls were found indications of the earlier Temenos wall and various artifacts of the Early Dynastic period. The excavation area overall included part of the Neo-Babylonian temenos wall to the west, the part that contained the Nebuchadnezzar gate where inscribed bricks of this king were uncovered in foundation boxes. It stretched southward to the edge of the excavation areas called EH and DP.     
Season Number: 04: 1925-1926      

Objects: KPS Site | KPS 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)
6409 (none) (none) B16676 Fragment of Stela of Ur-Nammu. White limestone. Male figurine in high relief wearing cloak. Well known type. Head in profile, body 3/4 face. Flowing cloak covering left shoulder and leaving right exposed. Traces of fringe on the cloak in the center of the body, 3 incised lines below neck probably indicate the cloak collar. Right arm bent at the elbow, forearm horizontal, hand and wrist lost. Left arm lost. Bearded head, pronounced forehead. Head is covered by closely fitting woollen cap. Face in poor condition, but shows careful modelling. Legs lost. E. in Cat.
6450B (none) (none) B16639 [This catalog card contains a number of notes discussing typology, these have been transcribed and may contradict]. Clay vases. Light drab. Type [CCXLIII crossed out] CCXVII = 1L.112. Not RC or L. Should it not be Larsa? Also please supply drawing. Original type and [illegible] and tracing of the Larsa type (old 217); I suggest that this should be a variant of that type. Gave it one [illegible] the type in (217); Yes, a shaped [previous word unclear] variant of (217), but the extra drawing and not [illegible as the two are virtually identical.
6632 (none) (none) B16597 Clay bowl. Reddish. Star shaped design [reference to drawing] incised on the convex bottom of the bowl. Cf. Type 265 in album. [drawing 1:2]
6461 (none) (none) B16572 Clay vase. Light drab. Type XXII TEO =RC.149 (not p)
6756A (none) (none) B16569 [A-B] 2 Rams. Grey gypsum. Protomoi. (1) E [UPM or BM] (1) B [Baghdad]
6341B (none) (none) B16554, B16554 Brick: of Sin balatsu iqbi Fragment. Var. of text of U.3161a
6324 (none) (none) B16548 Brick of Sin-idinnam. King of Larsa. New text. To dBabbar (Sun god). H.C.
6324A (none) (none) B16548 (none)
6437 (none) (none) B16435 Curved iron knife. One end inward to to receive handle? Fragmentary? E. [drawing 1:2]
6567 (none) (none) B16424 Decorative nail head? Copper. E.
6555 (none) (none) B16422 Copper tool. E. [drawing 1:1]
6459 (none) (none) B16414 Bronze Pin. E.
6800 (none) (none) B16370 Pendant. Silver. Embossed. Round and convex. 3 holes pierced in top covered with lapis and silver beads and two silver filigree
6799 (none) (none) B16369 Ring. Silver. E. [drawing 1:1]
6553 (none) (none) B16358 Tool? Bone brown. E. [drawing 1:1]
6296 (none) (none) B16291 Cylinder seal. Brown marble? Inscribed. Pierced. 3 crouching antelopes (one reversed). Before BC 3000. E.
6416 (none) (none) B16236 Stone bowl. Possibly lamp stand? Light drab. Glazed. With handle. Flat base.
6283A (none) (none) (none) [A-D] 4 clay vases light drab. Type LXXIV =RC.170
6284 (none) (none) (none) Alabaster vase. Part of mouth broken. Type CCXXXIV ? Pot type this type is missing from album, there is no drawing of it. B.
6285 (none) 1935,0113.411 (none) Clay bowl. Red. Type CXCVI. =L.
6286 (none) (none) (none) Clay vase. Red. Type LXXIII TEO =RC.129
6287 (none) (none) (none) Clay vase. Drab. Type CLXV in album. Persian. =P.136
6288 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Fragmentary. Swans and inscription. Lal-e pa son of Ur dGish. B.
6289 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Baked clay. Glazed. Grey. Emblems of Marduk - of Nabu - of Shamash - of Sin U and a winged dragons. Neo-Babylonian. B. [drawing]
6290 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Baked clay. Glazed. Dark grey. Fragmentary. Lines. Neo-Babylonian. B. [drawing]
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Media: KPS Site | KPS Export: JSON - XML - CSV

Media Media Title Title Label Author Omeka Label
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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