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)
6548 (none) (none) (none) Clay bowl. Light drab. Type CLVIII. Ribbed. =P.55a
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.
6285 (none) 1935,0113.411 (none) Clay bowl. Red. Type CXCVI. =L.
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]
6451 (none) 1927,0527.272 (none) Clay jug. Light drab. Type LXXIX T.E.O.. =RC.208.
6407 (none) (none) (none) Clay jug. Light drab. Type [LXXIX TEO has been crossed out] RC.206
6342 (none) (none) (none) Clay sealing with seal impression. Royal seal. [First column of text on card] dIbi ilSin God of his land mighty king of Ur King of the 4 regions of the world. [Second column of text on card] To Ur-nigin-gar the archivist (ga-dub-ba) son of Ar-shi-ih his servant it (the seal) has been presented. [the following is below both columns on the card] Presentation to seated Sin. H.C.
6343 (none) (none) (none) Clay sealing with seal impression. Royal seal. [First column of text on card] dIbi ilSin: God of the land mighty king of Ur king of the 4 regions of the world. [Second column of text on card] Da-da pateris of Nippur Scon of Ur(-sag...) patersi of Nippur thy servant. [the following is below both columns on the card] Presentation to seated moon-god. H.C.
6350 (none) (none) (none) Clay tablet probably dated of Ibi-Sin. List of goldsmith and jewelers 8 present 1 missing inspection of the night the 25th of Akibi. H.C.
6348 (none) (none) (none) Clay tablet- Dated of Ibi-Sin. 1/2 maneh and 5 shekels silver to bind the handle (?) of a spade (eis al). When Ibi-Sin King of Ur mark (cast ?)Nannar, the divine prince ornament of heaven. H.C.
6349 47-29-264, 47-29-264 (none) (none) Clay tablet. 9th year Bur-Sin. Fragment. Extra import. Transaction of the Merchant (banker?) of Shamash temple at Ur. H.C.
6347 (none) (none) (none) Clay tablet. Dated of Ibi-Sin. Receipt: Gold to cover pedestal of the royal statuete (also inlaid with lapis). New date: When for Ibi-Sin king of Ur, Nannar has let shine (revealed him) as the beloved of his heart. H.C.
6322 52-30-56 (none) (none) Clay tablet. Dated: Tashrit, 22nd of Nergal-ushezib king of Babylon (BC 693) Decision of the scribe Suma in a question of debts - 3,1,1,1 maneh are attributed to four persons- 9 witnesses.
6320 (none) (none) (none) Clay tablet. Hymn. Late Sumerian. About BC 1900(?).
6321 (none) (none) (none) Clay tablet. Hymn. Late Sumerian. About BC 1900(?).
6326 (none) (none) (none) Clay tablet. Sumerian religious hymn or incantation. About BC 800. Drawing at the end. [drawing]
6346 (none) (none) (none) Clay tablet: Dated Ibi-Sin. 3 copper objects weight 2 manehs and 9 shekels. New date (same as U.6345) H.C.
6345 (none) (none) (none) Clay tablet: Dated of Ibi-Sin. Accounts 1 du-gab 5 sa 2 tug-gab for the E-maskim dur-a-me. New Date: When king Ibi-Sin curbed the Amorites. H.C.
6462B (none) (none) (none) Clay Vase. Light Drab. App. 2 exmaples, acc. Type CCXLIV
6569 (none) (none) (none) Clay vase. 7th Century BC. Type CCXLIX =P.57. in album ? Neo-Babylonian.
6408 (none) (none) (none) Clay vase. Dark drab. Type LX TEO =RC.108a.
6287 (none) (none) (none) Clay vase. Drab. Type CLXV in album. Persian. =P.136
6603 (none) (none) (none) Clay vase. Glazed. White. Part of mouth and body lost. Type CCL in album Neo-Babylonian. =P.204.
6552 (none) (none) (none) Clay vase. Light drab.
6462A (none) (none) (none) Clay vase. Light drab. Approximately 2 examples, all [last word unclear], to original type W. Type CCXLIV. =P.196.

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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