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)
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.
6450B (none) (none) B16639 [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.
6283A (none) (none) (none) [A-D] 4 clay vases light drab. Type LXXIV =RC.170
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
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.
6756A (none) (none) B16569 [A-B] 2 Rams. Grey gypsum. Protomoi. (1) E [UPM or BM] (1) B [Baghdad]
6756B (none) (none) (none) [A-B] 2 Rams. Grey gypsum. Protomoi. (1) E [UPM or BM] (1) B [Baghdad]
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]
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]
6455 (none) (none) (none) Weight. Black hematite. Type III. [drawing 1:1]
6553 (none) (none) B16358 Tool? Bone brown. E. [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]
6423 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta horses head. Decorated with incised rings. Fragment. Take out of catalog. B. [drawing 1:1]
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]
6428 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Light drab. Female with hands clasped over breast. Head and legs lost.
6432 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Light drab. Female with hands clasped in front of breast in attitude of prayer. B.
6948 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Head and feet missing. Nude femlae, hands clasped over breast in attitude of prayer. B. [drawing 1:1]
6295 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta Figurine. Glazed. Fragment. Lower half of nude female probably in attitude of prayer. B. [drawing 1:1]
6563 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Fragmentary. Head lost. Hands clasped over breast. B.
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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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