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)
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]
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
3913 47-29-106 (none) (none) Not Assigned
3797 47-29-116 (none) (none) Not Assigned
3897 47-29-122 (none) (none) Not Assigned
3941 47-29-131 (none) (none) Not Assigned
3938 47-29-133 (none) (none) Not Assigned
3905 47-29-143, 47-29-146 (none) (none) [Card Missing]
3931 47-29-152 (none) (none) Not Assigned
3930 47-29-160 (none) (none) Not Assigned
3839 47-29-206 (none) (none) Not Assigned
3844 47-29-225, 47-29-225 (none) (none) [Card Missing]
3811 47-29-249 (none) (none) Not Assigned
3903 47-29-249 (none) (none) Not Assigned
3900 47-29-268 (none) (none) Not Assigned
3939 47-29-280 (none) (none) Not Assigned
3876 47-29-282 (none) (none) Not Assigned
3794 47-29-29 (none) (none) Not Assigned
3856 47-29-304 (none) (none) Not Assigned
3848 47-29-321 (none) (none) Not Assigned

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Media Media Title Title Label Author Omeka Label
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)
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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