Mausolea of Amar-Sin | AD
| Context Title: | Mausolea of Amar-Sin | AD |
| Context Name (Excavation): | Annex of Dungi's tomb; AD |
| Context Name (Publication): | The Mausolea of Bur-Sin; Mausolea of Amar-Sin; Amar-Sin Annex |
| Context Description: | Amar-Sin annex to Shugli Mausoleum |
| Context Description: | The excavation area abbreviation AD was apparently duplicated by accident and thus refers to two different areas of the site. Legrain reported the abbreviation as "Annex of Dungi's Tomb," but he was not on site the year that the context was excavated. He placed the abbreviation with this meaning on cards he created for inscribed material that came to him in the museum. Some tablets and cylinder seals were found in the filling of the tomb annex and some even have a note that they are from Seal Impression Strata against the tomb or its foundational fill. These artifacts are clearly from the BC area, that of the Mausoleum of the Ur III kings built by Shulgi and his son Amar-Sin (Amar-Suen). Amar-Sin built two annexes onto the Shulgi building (See area BC), one to the northwest and the other to the southeast. It is not clear which of the two annexes Legrain was referring to with the abbreviation AD, probably either or both. Essentially artifacts from this use of AD can only be located generally to the overall BC area at the eastern edge of the Royal Cemetery (PG). On the excavation site the abbreviation AD was being used for the so-called Palace of Bel-Shalti-Nannar. Artifacts from the two separate AD contexts have been divided in the digital data wherever possible. |
| Season Number: | 09: 1930-1931 |
| Culture/Period: | Ur III |
| Location Type: | public |
| Object | U Number | Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) | Museum Number (BM Registration Number) | Museum Number (UPM B-number) | Description (Catalog Card) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 16008 | (none) | 1931,1010.4 | (none) | Diorite Bowl. Fragment. Dungi. Temple of Nin-gis-zida. Inscription HC..30/I,4 UET 8/2 (Hand copied by Legrain) [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card] |
| 16010 | (none) | 1948,0423.169 | (none) | Clay Tablet. business document(?) Date: Year when Idi-Sin, King of Ur made for Nannar a gods (?) seat. (Ur Inscription 198) [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card] |
| 16021 | 31-43-25, 31-43-25 | (none) | (none) | Steatite Cylinder seal. Nana son of Gudea,the jeweller. HC.30/I.7. UET 8/2 (hand copied by Legrain) [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card] | |
| 16044 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay tablet. Commercial. Date: very difficult to decipher. It appears to begin with mu-gadgal... Year in which the great wall? [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card] |
| 16046 | 47-29-404, 47-29-404 | (none) | (none) | Clay tablet. Commercial [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card] |
| 16071 | 47-29-70, 47-29-70 | (none) | (none) | Clay tablet. Commercial. Date: Partially lost, probably Dungi 30 or 42 [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card] |
| 16078 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay tablet. Commercial. Date: i.q. 16069 - Dungi 41 (SAKI 232) [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card] |
| 16081 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay tablet. Commercial. Date; Year when Ganhar was laid waste for the second time.- Dungi 29 (SAKI 231) (Text varies from SAKI in word-order) [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card] |
| 16216 | (none) | 1931,1010.264 | (none) | Mountings, gold-plated. Probably from a small stone box(?) 12 in all. The gold is a thin strip mounted on silver rods, from which project at the back short pegs for attachment - the gold is apparently soldered onto the silver, but the edges are turned down over it for better attachment. With these were nails of plain gold or of copper with gold heads; and some minute gold beads for fastening the edges of gold casing: 2 plain gold; 10 gold-headed, 4 beads; & a few fragments of gold leaf. BurSin NW man.p.3. |
| 16220 | (none) | 1931,1010.15 | (none) | Cylinder seal. White shell. A humped bull of Indian type feeding on a bundle of hay(?) in front of a palm tree: on the other side, a scorpion & above it, horizontally a man with feathered headdress. A remarkable seal. |
| 16229R | 31-43-106 | (none) | (none) | Bar weight 8.576 GRS. haematite. black. [drawing] 1 sheqel (nominal weight 8.416). Type III. | |
| 16255 | (none) | 1931,1010.297 | (none) | Copper shoe at door-pole. (broken, not complete) cup-shaped, with nails to fix it to the pole end. Found in posistion standing on the brick door-socket in the hinged box. | |
| 16270A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-D] Fragment of Inlay in gold, carnelian & lapis from the decoration of walls or objects in the BC rooms. [A] A gold star (6-pointed) and [B] 2 sun's rays of gold & carnelian from room 2 [crossed out] 7 9 [written beside] in Bur-Sins SE annex. [C] Agate [drawing] from Dungi room 1 [crossed out] 4. [D] Corrugated gold leaf, agate strip & square glass paste(?) tessera from Bur-Sins room 2 in SE annex. [drawing] |
| 16270B | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-D] Fragment of Inlay in gold, carnelian & lapis from the decoration of walls or objects in the BC rooms. [A] A gold star (6-pointed) and [B] 2 sun's rays of gold & carnelian from room 2 [crossed out] 7 9 [written beside] in Bur-Sins SE annex. [C] Agate [drawing] from Dungi room 1 [crossed out] 4. [D] Corrugated gold leaf, agate strip & square glass paste(?) tessera from Bur-Sins room 2 in SE annex. [drawing] |
| 16270D | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-D] Fragment of Inlay in gold, carnelian & lapis from the decoration of walls or objects in the BC rooms. [A] A gold star (6-pointed) and [B] 2 sun's rays of gold & carnelian from room 2 [crossed out] 7 9 [written beside] in Bur-Sins SE annex. [C] Agate [drawing] from Dungi room 1 [crossed out] 4. [D] Corrugated gold leaf, agate strip & square glass paste(?) tessera from Bur-Sins room 2 in SE annex. [drawing] |
| 16274 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bowl, limestone. Fragment (rather more than half) Round base, very thick walls. [drawing] |
| 16290 | 31-43-422 | (none) | (none) | Terracotta relief. Red clay, incomplete. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 16294 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Ivory Rod. Circular in section & tapering slightly; both ends missing; broken into many pieces & mended. [additional note on back] |
| 16299 | (none) | 1931,1010.107 | (none) | Stone Bowl. Basic diorite. Heavy and coarse. Type? (recently JN30). [drawing] |
| 16510 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay tablet. Date:... [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card] | |
| 16514 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay tablet. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card] | |
| 16518 | (none) | 1948,0423.79 | (none) | Clay Tablet. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card] |
| 17429 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Gold roundel. With silver inlay. [drawing] |
| 17430 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Gold ring. Plain flat wire, thick. Ends loose, not overlapping but teaching. |
- 24 Objects
| Media | Media Title | Title | Label | Author | Omeka Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ur Excavations VI; The Ur III Period | Ur Excavations VI; The Ur III Period | 1974 | Woolley, Leonard | (none) |
- 1 Media
Sibling Locations
House 30/A - House 30/B - House 30/C - House 30/D - House 30/E - LG/198 | BCG/13 - Mausolea of Shulgi | Dungi Building
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Ur > Mausoleum Site | BC > Mausolea of Amar-Sin | AD
References
Woolley, Leonard. (1974) Ur Excavations VI; The Ur III Period, Oxford: Oxford University Press.