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.
6410 (none) (none) (none) Alabaster fragment. Figurine in low relief on one side of man holding an object against his chest in left hand. Next to him a pig beneath an ark. On the other side a peacock also beneath the ark. Borrom of ark represented by plain band 1mm in thickness rising upwards at the end in a curve. B. [drawing 1:2]
6414 (none) 1927,0527.114 (none) Bronze ring. E.
6416 (none) (none) B16236 Stone bowl. Possibly lamp stand? Light drab. Glazed. With handle. Flat base.
6417 (none) 1927,0527.36 (none) Head of male. Limestone. Lost below neck, and back of head missing. White. Shaven and stone probably of priest, well known type rounded cheek, small but pronounced chin, wide nose, deep eye sockets and heavily incised eyebrows. Heavy ears. E. [drawing]
6418 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Glazed pottery. Hero fighting with a winged dragon. B. Neo-Babylonian.
6420 (none) 1927,0527.238 (none) Terracotta figurine. Red. Head missing. Hands clasped over breast in attitude of prayer. Figure stands on a pedestal square in front, rounded at back. Two incised lines on pedestal front and wedge shaped markings. Figure clothed in long flowing garment, which has a thick band in front at the weist and a V. shaped collar below neck. E. [drawing 1:1]
6421 (none) (none) (none) Bronze prong shaped arrowhead. One end broken. B. [drawing]
6422 (none) (none) (none) Copper? Fish hook. B. [drawing]
6423 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta horses head. Decorated with incised rings. Fragment. Take out of catalog. B. [drawing 1:1]
6424 (none) (none) (none) Base of alabaster statue. Foot alone remaining. Toes and nails carefully modeled. B. [drawing]
6428 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Light drab. Female with hands clasped over breast. Head and legs lost.
6429 (none) 1927,0527.254 (none) Baked clay fragment of tool. In imitation of flint tool. E. [drawing 1:1]
6430 (none) (none) (none) Mace head. White marble. Pear shaped. B. [drawing]
6431 (none) (none) (none) Mace head. Black stone. E.
6432 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Light drab. Female with hands clasped in front of breast in attitude of prayer. B.
6433 (none) (none) (none) Pot cover. Glazed clay. Knob handle and two holes on on either side of it at edge. [drawing 1:1]
6435 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta model of chair. Inner face of back decorated with 8 rectangles on lower half, upper half 2 stars, 2 crescent moons, 2 birds and in the middle a tree. B. [drawing 1:1]
6437 (none) (none) B16435 Curved iron knife. One end inward to to receive handle? Fragmentary? E. [drawing 1:2]
6439 (none) (none) (none) Stone vase fragment. Black. Traces of handles. Incised line and ring decoration.
6440 (none) (none) (none) Alabaster block. Holes piered in sides. E. [drawing]
6441 (none) (none) (none) Alabaster vase. Broken at top. Type XXIX (stone). B.
6449A (none) (none) (none) [A-B] 2 clay vases. Light drab. Type CCXLV or TO/23 = RC.145 (?) =1L.115 [drawing]
6449B (none) (none) (none) [A-B] 2 clay vases. Light drab. Type CCXLV or TO/23 = RC.145 (?) =1L.115 [drawing]
6450A (none) (none) (none) [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.

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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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