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 |
| Object | U Number | Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) | Museum Number (BM Registration Number) | Museum Number (UPM B-number) | Description (Catalog Card) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | 6797 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Pendant. Silver. Set with Lapiz lazuli. E. |
![]() | 6798 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Lapis lazuli. Large collection. |
![]() | 6801 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver filigree. [drawing 1:1]. E. |
![]() | 6802 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Silver and lapis lazuli with one paste bead and one paste ring. |
![]() | 6948 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Terracotta figurine. Head and feet missing. Nude femlae, hands clasped over breast in attitude of prayer. B. [drawing 1:1] |
![]() | 6283B | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-D] 4 clay vases light drab. Type LXXIV =RC.170 |
![]() | 6283C | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-D] 4 clay vases light drab. Type LXXIV =RC.170 |
![]() | 6283D | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-D] 4 clay vases light drab. Type LXXIV =RC.170 |
| (none) | (none) | 1935,0113.251 | (none) | (none) | |
![]() | 6322A | (none) | (none) | (none) | (none) |
![]() | 6322B | 52-30-56 | (none) | (none) | (none) |
![]() | 6324B | (none) | (none) | (none) | (none) |
| 6416 | (none) | (none) | B16236 | Stone bowl. Possibly lamp stand? Light drab. Glazed. With handle. Flat base. | |
| 6296 | (none) | (none) | B16291 | Cylinder seal. Brown marble? Inscribed. Pierced. 3 crouching antelopes (one reversed). Before BC 3000. E. | |
| 6553 | (none) | (none) | B16358 | Tool? Bone brown. E. [drawing 1:1] | |
![]() | 6799 | (none) | (none) | B16369 | Ring. Silver. E. [drawing 1:1] |
| 6800 | (none) | (none) | B16370 | Pendant. Silver. Embossed. Round and convex. 3 holes pierced in top covered with lapis and silver beads and two silver filigree | |
| 6459 | (none) | (none) | B16414 | Bronze Pin. E. | |
| 6555 | (none) | (none) | B16422 | Copper tool. E. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 6567 | (none) | (none) | B16424 | Decorative nail head? Copper. E. | |
| 6437 | (none) | (none) | B16435 | Curved iron knife. One end inward to to receive handle? Fragmentary? E. [drawing 1:2] | |
| 6324 | (none) | (none) | B16548 | Brick of Sin-idinnam. King of Larsa. New text. To dBabbar (Sun god). H.C. | |
![]() | 6324A | (none) | (none) | B16548 | (none) |
![]() | 6341B | (none) | (none) | B16554, B16554 | Brick: of Sin balatsu iqbi Fragment. Var. of text of U.3161a |
| 6756A | (none) | (none) | B16569 | [A-B] 2 Rams. Grey gypsum. Protomoi. (1) E [UPM or BM] (1) B [Baghdad] |
| 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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Sibling Locations
AH Site | AH - City Wall | CLW - DP - Dublalmah | LL - EH Site | EH - Ehursag | HT - EM Site | EM - Enunmah | TTB | ES - ESB - FH - Giparu | KP - Great Nanna Courtyard | PD - Harbor Temple - House 34/1 - House 34/2 - House Site - Kassite Fort - LT - LW - Mausoleum Site | BC - Neo-Babylonian Housing | NH - NNCF - NTB - P/103 - Palace of Bel-Shalti-Nannar | AD - Pit F - Royal Cemetery | PG - SM - Temenos Wall | TW - TTC - XNCF - Ziggurat Terrace | ZT