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)
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]
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.
6451 (none) 1927,0527.272 (none) Clay jug. Light drab. Type LXXIX T.E.O.. =RC.208.
6453 (none) (none) (none) Clay weight. Baked. 4 incised marks at top. Type XI. E. [drawing]
6454 (none) 1927,0527.237 (none) Terracotta figurine. Draped figure in low relief. Embroidered tassel runs front of cloak which appears to cover the whole body with the exception of the arms Head. Missing. E. [drawing 1:1]
6455 (none) (none) (none) Weight. Black hematite. Type III. [drawing 1:1]
6457 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta bedstead. Fragment. Tree between two gazelles. Demarcation line in relief. Four triangles with foliage between. B.
6458A (none) (none) (none) [A-B] 2 bronze bracelets. B. [drawing 1:1]
6458B (none) (none) (none) [A-B] 2 bronze bracelets. B. [drawing 1:1]
6460 (none) 1927,0527.39 (none) Base of statuette. Black steatite. Long foot with 4 toes alone remain. E. [drawing 1:1]
6462A (none) (none) (none) Clay vase. Light drab. Approximately 2 examples, all [last word unclear], to original type W. Type CCXLIV. =P.196.
6462B (none) (none) (none) Clay Vase. Light Drab. App. 2 exmaples, acc. Type CCXLIV
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]
6465A (none) (none) (none) Steatite box. Fragment. Dark green. Incised zig-zag and circular decoration. E. [drawing 1:1]
6470 (none) (none) (none) Limestone bowl. Jagged edge. White. Type CLIII (stone vase types) =RC.48 [drawing] B.
6471 (none) 1927,0527.133 (none) Group of beads. Some of Variegated glass but decayed. Date 700-650 BC.

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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