KPS Site | KPS

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)
6555 (none) (none) B16422 Copper tool. E. [drawing 1:1]
6553 (none) (none) B16358 Tool? Bone brown. E. [drawing 1:1]
6552 (none) (none) (none) Clay vase. Light drab.
6549 (none) (none) (none) Clay bowl. Light drab. Type CCXLVIII. In album Neo-Babylonian. =P.64.
6548 (none) (none) (none) Clay bowl. Light drab. Type CLVIII. Ribbed. =P.55a
6546C (none) (none) (none) [A-C] Group of 3 clay vases. Light drab.
6546B (none) (none) (none) [A-C] Group of 3 clay vases. Light drab.
6546A (none) (none) (none) [A-C] Group of 3 clay vases. Light drab.
6545 (none) (none) (none) Clay vase. Light drab. Type CCXLVII. =P.71.
6488 (none) (none) (none) Marble palette? Mottled. Flate one side, curved on the other, rounded at corners. Hole pierced in each corner. E.
6473 (none) (none) (none) Pendant in shape of duck? Pink marble. Incision running diagonally across body below tail to mark wing? Pierced for suspension. ? Imitation lion's claw? B. [drawing 1:1]
6472 (none) (none) (none) Miniature clay vase. Light drab. Type. XLV. TEO. (miniature) =RC.52.
6471 (none) 1927,0527.133 (none) Group of beads. Some of Variegated glass but decayed. Date 700-650 BC.
6470 (none) (none) (none) Limestone bowl. Jagged edge. White. Type CLIII (stone vase types) =RC.48 [drawing] B.
6465A (none) (none) (none) Steatite box. Fragment. Dark green. Incised zig-zag and circular decoration. E. [drawing 1:1]
6463 (none) 1927,0527.60 (none) Semi-circular bar of white marble. U-shaped = ends flat, near each end a small hole bored through stone on the diameter of the semi-circule - broken in antiquity and riveted. Suggest that this is the loop ornament figured in early sculpture on door jambs or on lances set upright by the sides of doors: the ends might fit into holes in the wooden upright and the small holes would serve for attachment to same by means of copper wires. E. [drawing]
6462B (none) (none) (none) Clay Vase. Light Drab. App. 2 exmaples, acc. Type CCXLIV
6462A (none) (none) (none) Clay vase. Light drab. Approximately 2 examples, all [last word unclear], to original type W. Type CCXLIV. =P.196.
6461 (none) (none) B16572 Clay vase. Light drab. Type XXII TEO =RC.149 (not p)
6460 (none) 1927,0527.39 (none) Base of statuette. Black steatite. Long foot with 4 toes alone remain. E. [drawing 1:1]
6459 (none) (none) B16414 Bronze Pin. E.
6458B (none) (none) (none) [A-B] 2 bronze bracelets. B. [drawing 1:1]
6458A (none) (none) (none) [A-B] 2 bronze bracelets. B. [drawing 1:1]
6457 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta bedstead. Fragment. Tree between two gazelles. Demarcation line in relief. Four triangles with foliage between. B.
6455 (none) (none) (none) Weight. Black hematite. Type III. [drawing 1:1]

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