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)
3145A (none) (none) (none) [A-B] 2 examples. Second broken. [moulded brick?] [drawing 1:8]
3147 (none) 1927,1003.275 (none) Brick of Kurigalzu. Construction of E-Dub-lal-mah.
3205 (none) (none) (none) Stone weight. Fragment. Blue stone. Probably Ibi-Sin. Type ? H.C.
3216 29-174-1 (none) (none) Pottery vase. Small slightly concave-sided vase of buff ware. Type CC, =P.70
3217A 29-174-2 (none) (none) Pottery vases. With slihgtly curved cheeks and small base: buff ware. (B) Smaller and slightly different from type. Type CCI, =RC.14a, =L, =P.74
3217B (none) 1927,1003.131 (none) Pottery vases. With slihgtly curved cheeks and small base: buff ware. (B) Smaller and slightly different from type. Type CCI, =RC.14a, =L, =P.74
3218 (none) 1927,1003.121 (none) Pottery vase. With small base, body gradually opening out to lip. Type CCII, =P.69
3236 (none) (none) (none) Seal cylinder. Soapstone. IIIrd Ur Dynasty. [drawing]
3237 (none) (none) (none) Seal cylinder. Diorite. IIIrd Ur Dynasty. [drawing]
3245 (none) 1927,1003.46 (none) Clay cone of Libit-Ishtar. Fragment Same as SAKI. P.204.
3247 (none) (none) (none) Clay cone of Warad-Sin. Fragment. Restoration of E-temen-ni-il SAKI p.212
3248 (none) (none) (none) Arrowhead. Copper overlaid with gold. Haft of copper only. [drawing 1:1]
3251 (none) 1927,1003.48 (none) Cone of Libit-Ishtar. Fragment. Same as 3245 = SAKI. P.204.
3254 (none) (none) (none) Mask. Of glazed frit, with eyes originally inlaid and holes at side of head for affixing to background. Fine workmanship: fragmentary. [drawing 1:1]
3256 (none) (none) (none) Seal cylinder. Carnelian. About BC 700. [drawing]
3257 (none) (none) (none) Seal cylinder. Limestone. About BC 2300. [drawing]
3260 (none) (none) (none) Small stone weight. Sausage-shaped with four small cuts to indicate value. Type III. [drawing 1:1]
3263 (none) (none) (none) Fragment of 2 Columns (?) Inscription. Bluish stone (soapstone?) About BC 2100. H.C.
3331 (none) (none) (none) Lower part of small statue. Not 3rd Dynasty. White limestone: lower part of dress and feet on base. Sketch 1:2. [drawing 1:2]
3332 (none) (none) (none) Large glazed pot. Design in green.
3370 (none) (none) (none) Large water-pot. Round-bellied, painted black at top and bottom with small excrescences on shoulder, variagated band round belly and diamond pattern in black, between top and bottom: fragmentary. Type.
3600 (none) (none) (none) No catalog card exists for this object: U.3400-U.4929 [possibly an error for U.3400-U.3989 since little evidence for tablets with numbers after U.3989 exists] fell unassigned between seasons 3 and 4. They were later used for tablets found in Season 3 in areas PD, TTB, and ES (Jacobsen AJA 57:128).
3791 (none) (none) (none) Not Assigned
3792 (none) 1948,0423.236 (none) [Card Missing]
3793 (none) 1948,0423.389 (none) [Card Missing]

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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)
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.