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)
6285 (none) 1935,0113.411 (none) Clay bowl. Red. Type CXCVI. =L.
(none) (none) 1935,0113.251 (none) (none)
6341A (none) 1927,1003.273 (none) Brick: of Sin-balatsu-iqbi. Fragment. Variant of text of U.3161. H.C.
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]
6460 (none) 1927,0527.39 (none) Base of statuette. Black steatite. Long foot with 4 toes alone remain. E. [drawing 1:1]
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]
6571 (none) 1927,0527.289 (none) Clay bowl fragmentary. Glazed. Light drab and trace of blue on outside.
6451 (none) 1927,0527.272 (none) Clay jug. Light drab. Type LXXIX T.E.O.. =RC.208.
6429 (none) 1927,0527.254 (none) Baked clay fragment of tool. In imitation of flint tool. E. [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]
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]
6299 (none) 1927,0527.206 (none) Cylinder seal. Flat on one side hemispherical on the other glazed pottery scarab on the flat a crouching dragon (?) Egypt in influence. About BC 500.
6471 (none) 1927,0527.133 (none) Group of beads. Some of Variegated glass but decayed. Date 700-650 BC.
6414 (none) 1927,0527.114 (none) Bronze ring. E.
6283A (none) (none) (none) [A-D] 4 clay vases light drab. Type LXXIV =RC.170
6284 (none) (none) (none) Alabaster vase. Part of mouth broken. Type CCXXXIV ? Pot type this type is missing from album, there is no drawing of it. B.
6286 (none) (none) (none) Clay vase. Red. Type LXXIII TEO =RC.129
6287 (none) (none) (none) Clay vase. Drab. Type CLXV in album. Persian. =P.136
6288 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Fragmentary. Swans and inscription. Lal-e pa son of Ur dGish. B.
6289 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Baked clay. Glazed. Grey. Emblems of Marduk - of Nabu - of Shamash - of Sin U and a winged dragons. Neo-Babylonian. B. [drawing]
6290 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Baked clay. Glazed. Dark grey. Fragmentary. Lines. Neo-Babylonian. B. [drawing]
6291 (none) (none) (none) Hematite weight. Black. Type II. [drawing 1:1]
6293 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. With inscription. Presentation to a seated goddess (Bau?) Crescent and bird. ( )lu dNinni? (son) of (servant of). About BC 2300 B
6295 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta Figurine. Glazed. Fragment. Lower half of nude female probably in attitude of prayer. B. [drawing 1:1]
6296 (none) (none) B16291 Cylinder seal. Brown marble? Inscribed. Pierced. 3 crouching antelopes (one reversed). Before BC 3000. E.
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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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