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)
6472 (none) (none) (none) Miniature clay vase. Light drab. Type. XLV. TEO. (miniature) =RC.52.
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]
6488 (none) (none) (none) Marble palette? Mottled. Flate one side, curved on the other, rounded at corners. Hole pierced in each corner. E.
6545 (none) (none) (none) Clay vase. Light drab. Type CCXLVII. =P.71.
6546A (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.
6546C (none) (none) (none) [A-C] Group of 3 clay vases. Light drab.
6548 (none) (none) (none) Clay bowl. Light drab. Type CLVIII. Ribbed. =P.55a
6549 (none) (none) (none) Clay bowl. Light drab. Type CCXLVIII. In album Neo-Babylonian. =P.64.
6552 (none) (none) (none) Clay vase. Light drab.
6556 (none) (none) (none) Miniature peg? Clay. Gray. Small stamped circles on upper portion. [drawing 1:1]
6562 (none) (none) (none) Collection of bronze nails (about 50) fragment of copper vase and clay seal nude woman with club.
6563 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Fragmentary. Head lost. Hands clasped over breast. B.
6568 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. Fragment. Mottled. B.
6569 (none) (none) (none) Clay vase. 7th Century BC. Type CCXLIX =P.57. in album ? Neo-Babylonian.
6571 (none) 1927,0527.289 (none) Clay bowl fragmentary. Glazed. Light drab and trace of blue on outside.
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.
6573 (none) (none) (none) Decorative nail? Head. Terracotta or possibly vase lid.
6583 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta box? Green. Fragmentary. Incised wedge decoration in face. B. [drawing 1:2]
6589 (none) (none) (none) Signet ring. Bronze. Uninscribed. B. [drawing 1:1]
6603 (none) (none) (none) Clay vase. Glazed. White. Part of mouth and body lost. Type CCL in album Neo-Babylonian. =P.204.
6604 (none) (none) (none) Pin head. Bone. Incised criss cross pattern. [drawing 1:1]
6756B (none) (none) (none) [A-B] 2 Rams. Grey gypsum. Protomoi. (1) E [UPM or BM] (1) B [Baghdad]
6795 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Lapis lazuli, gold and paste.
6796 (none) (none) (none) Necklace. Carnelian beads. E.

Media: KPS Site | KPS Export: JSON - XML - CSV

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