Dublalmah | LL

Context Title: Dublalmah | LL     
Context Name (Publication): E-Dub-Lal-Mah     
Context Name (Excavation): LL     
Context Name (Excavation): DM; DLM     
Context Name (Excavation): LM     
Context Description: First investigated by Taylor in 1853, the dublalmah was originally a gateway onto the eastern corner of the ziggurat terrace. It expanded into a larger building in the Isin-Larsa/Old Babylonian period. It had multiple functions, religious and administrative, through the centuries. An inscribed door socket of Amar-Sin found here refers to the building as the great storehouse of tablets and the place of judgment. It was thus essentially a law court, possibly with tablets recording judgments stored within. In Mesopotamia, an eastern gateway--in sight of the rising sun--was typically seen as a place of justice, and gateways were often places where witnesses or judges might hear claims. After the Ur III period the door onto the ziggurat terrace was sealed up and the dublalmah appears to have become a shrine, but it retained its name and probably its law court function. Kurigalzu made significant restorations to the building in the Kassite period and Woolley marveled at the well-constructed fully preserved arched doorway of this Late Bronze Age time. By the Neo-Babylonian period, the structure had essentially merged with the functions of the neighboring giparu.     
Season Number: 03: 1924-1925      
Season Number: 06: 1927-1928      

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Object U Number Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) Museum Number (BM Registration Number) Museum Number (UPM B-number) Description (Catalog Card)
11035 (none) (none) (none) Tablets. Three more fragments from the Dub-lalmah archive.
11036 47-29-444 (none) (none) Seal Impression. 1-fragment from Dub-lalmah archive. Seal of son of Ur-dingir-ra? Lugal Ka-gi-na. Present: scene showing only Patron (with both hands raised) and Client. HC..177
11037 (none) (none) (none) Seal Impression. Scribe. Invoking a king (name lost) Throned divinity. HC..178
11038 (none) (none) (none) Seal Impression. Inscription invoking a king (name lost). HC..179
11039 (none) (none) (none) Seal Impression. Scribe. Inscription invoking king (name lost) Seated divinity with cup? Worshipper with lamb. HC..180
11040 (none) (none) (none) Seal Impression. Presentation scene: Seated divinity and 2 figures. HC..181
11041 (none) (none) (none) Tablet. UR III: acount clothing stuff received. Ur dungi-ra suba-an-ti and e-dub-ba occur again. HC..359
11042 (none) (none) (none) Tablet. UR III accounts. Only date preserved:- Dungi 36? (cf. U.11004, etc.) HC..360
11043 (none) (none) (none) Tablet. UR III, accounts, Offering of sheep for a new moon feast: date (fragmentary) - new ?? HC..361
11044 (none) (none) (none) Tablet. UR III: Accounts. Clothes-stuff taken in charge. date: - new??? or cf. SAK. 235. 6 m ?? HC..362
11045 (none) (none) (none) Tablet. UR III accounts. HC..365
11046 (none) (none) (none) Tablet. UR III accounts. HC..366
11047 (none) (none) (none) Tablet. UR III accounts. HC..367
11048 (none) (none) (none) Tablet. UR III accounts. HC..368
11049 (none) (none) (none) Tablet. UR III accounts. HC..369
11050 (none) (none) (none) Tablet. UR III accounts. HC..370
11051 (none) (none) (none) Tablet. UR III accounts. HC..371
11052 (none) (none) (none) Tablet. UR III accounts. HC..372
3265B (none) (none) B16676 Fragments of stone stela. Three. Largest shows two men beating drum & above lower part of seated god with priest(?) before him leading or driving captives(?) For inscription on fragg. see accompanying card. Large Limestone Stela. (A) Drummers fragt: Inscription on 2 registers: Records canal cutting. Canal of Nannar-gu-gal (?); canal Ki-Sur-ra; Canal ( )-na; Canal ( ) mah(?); canal gu-dug(?) of Eridu; Canal gu-ur of Nin-gir-su(?). Second register illegible. Perhaps name of the king who erected the stela. (C) Second fragt ...he restored. Who ever with an evil hand... (D) Third fragt. 2 signs.
3265C (none) (none) B16676 Fragments of stone stela. Three. Largest shows two men beating drum & above lower part of seated god with priest(?) before him leading or driving captives(?) For inscription on fragg. see accompanying card. Large Limestone Stela. (A) Drummers fragt: Inscription on 2 registers: Records canal cutting. Canal of Nannar-gu-gal (?); canal Ki-Sur-ra; Canal ( )-na; Canal ( ) mah(?); canal gu-dug(?) of Eridu; Canal gu-ur of Nin-gir-su(?). Second register illegible. Perhaps name of the king who erected the stela. (C) Second fragt ...he restored. Who ever with an evil hand... (D) Third fragt. 2 signs.
3265D (none) (none) B16676 Fragments of stone stela. Three. Largest shows two men beating drum & above lower part of seated god with priest(?) before him leading or driving captives(?) For inscription on fragg. see accompanying card. Large Limestone Stela. (A) Drummers fragt: Inscription on 2 registers: Records canal cutting. Canal of Nannar-gu-gal (?); canal Ki-Sur-ra; Canal ( )-na; Canal ( ) mah(?); canal gu-dug(?) of Eridu; Canal gu-ur of Nin-gir-su(?). Second register illegible. Perhaps name of the king who erected the stela. (C) Second fragt ...he restored. Who ever with an evil hand... (D) Third fragt. 2 signs.
3145B (none) (none) (none) [A-B] 2 examples. Second broken. [moulded brick?] [drawing 1:8]
3330E 98-9-16 (none) B16676 Fragments of stone stela (U.2761, U.3264, U.3329) with details of figures, dress, stone surface, etc... Ur-Nammu stela in cat.
3330F 98-9-16 (none) B16676 Fragments of stone stela (U.2761, U.3264, U.3329) with details of figures, dress, stone surface, etc... Ur-Nammu stela in cat.
3330G 98-9-20 (none) B16676 Fragments of stone stela (U.2761, U.3264, U.3329) with details of figures, dress, stone surface, etc... Ur-Nammu stela in cat.

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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)
Ur Excavations IX; The Neo-Babylonian and Persian Periods Ur Excavations IX; The Neo-Babylonian and Persian Periods 1962 Woolley, L. and Mallowan, Max (none)
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Woolley, L. and Mallowan, Max. (1962) Ur Excavations IX; The Neo-Babylonian and Persian Periods, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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