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General

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

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U Number	Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)	Museum Number (BM Registration Number)	Museum Number (UPM B-number)	Description (Catalog Card)
6948	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta figurine. Head and feet missing. Nude femlae, hands clasped over breast in attitude of prayer. B. [drawing 1:1]
6802	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Silver and lapis lazuli with one paste bead and one paste ring.
6801	(none)	(none)	(none)	Silver filigree. [drawing 1:1]. 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]
6798	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Lapis lazuli. Large collection.
6797	(none)	(none)	(none)	Pendant. Silver. Set with Lapiz lazuli. E.
6796	(none)	(none)	(none)	Necklace. Carnelian beads. E.
6795	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Lapis lazuli, gold and paste.
6756B	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-B] 2 Rams. Grey gypsum. Protomoi. (1) E [UPM or BM] (1) B [Baghdad]
6756A	(none)	(none)	B16569	[A-B] 2 Rams. Grey gypsum. Protomoi. (1) E [UPM or BM] (1) B [Baghdad]
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]
6604	(none)	(none)	(none)	Pin head. Bone. Incised criss cross pattern. [drawing 1:1]
6603	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay vase. Glazed. White. Part of mouth and body lost. Type CCL in album Neo-Babylonian. =P.204.
6589	(none)	(none)	(none)	Signet ring. Bronze. Uninscribed. B. [drawing 1:1]
6583	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta box? Green. Fragmentary. Incised wedge decoration in face. B. [drawing 1:2]
6573	(none)	(none)	(none)	Decorative nail? Head. Terracotta or possibly vase lid.
6572	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay bowl. Light drab. Type XL. =RC.119 (not a bowl) or is it type XC? [illegible] in album Persian =P.37.
6571	(none)	1927,0527.289	(none)	Clay bowl fragmentary. Glazed. Light drab and trace of blue on outside.
6569	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay vase. 7th Century BC. Type CCXLIX =P.57. in album ? Neo-Babylonian.
6568	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone bowl. Fragment. Mottled. B.
6567	(none)	(none)	B16424	Decorative nail head? Copper. E.
6563	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta figurine. Fragmentary. Head lost. Hands clasped over breast. B.
6562	(none)	(none)	(none)	Collection of bronze nails (about 50) fragment of copper vase and clay seal nude woman with club.
6556	(none)	(none)	(none)	Miniature peg? Clay. Gray. Small stamped circles on upper portion. [drawing 1:1]

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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)