KPS Site | KPS - UrOnline

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

Object	U Number	Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)	Museum Number (BM Registration Number)	Museum Number (UPM B-number)	Description (Catalog Card)
	6296	(none)	(none)	B16291	Cylinder seal. Brown marble? Inscribed. Pierced. 3 crouching antelopes (one reversed). Before BC 3000. E.

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)