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)
3060 (none) (none) (none) Copper arrowhead. Simple blade. [drawing 1:1]
3251 (none) 1927,1003.48 (none) Cone of Libit-Ishtar. Fragment. Same as 3245 = SAKI. P.204.
2652 (none) (none) (none) Clay tablet. Pillow shape. Fragment. Persian period. [drawing]
2926 (none) (none) (none) Clay tablet. Neo-Babylonian. Small fragments missing. 3 incantations formulae laid in the boxes of the pavement at the entrance of the door. H.C.
3011 (none) (none) (none) Clay tablet. Neo-Babylonian Syllabary.
2717 (none) (none) (none) Clay stopper [stopper crossed out and replaced with ear-stand?] Fine quality baked clay. Fragmentary. [drawing 1:1]
2739 (none) (none) (none) Clay saucer. Drab ware : wheel made very thick. Type CXLI. With U.2738 (Ishme Dagan?)
2738 (none) (none) (none) Clay saucer. Drab ware : wheel made and very thick. Type CXX. With U.2739 (Ishme Dagan?)
2655 (none) (none) (none) Clay pot stand. Greenish drab ware. Type CXXXIII.
2659 (none) (none) (none) Clay nail of ARAD-Sin. Fragment of head. Two columns inscription, of which are preserved Column I: 15-25; Column II: 10-25. prays for himself, for his Father KUDUR-MABUK - The 6 last lines are a prayer to the Moon god Nannar. Ink drawing.
2662 (none) (none) (none) Clay label with hole to attach it. Text: Nabu-usallim into the hands of Nabu-bel-usur month of Shabat Year 10th of Marduk-apal-iddinna (Merodach-baladan) king of Babylon. About BC 714. H.C.
2528 (none) (none) (none) Clay jar stopper. Drab ware, broken off at end. Sketch. [drawing 1:2]
3247 (none) (none) (none) Clay cone of Warad-Sin. Fragment. Restoration of E-temen-ni-il SAKI p.212
3245 (none) 1927,1003.46 (none) Clay cone of Libit-Ishtar. Fragment Same as SAKI. P.204.
2670 (none) (none) (none) Carved relief. Limestone, with figures of Ea and attendant gods. 3rd Dynasty period.
2644 (none) (none) (none) Bronze pin. [drawing 1:1]
2751 (none) 1927,1003.105 (none) Bronze arrowhead. Triangular pattern [drawing 1:1]
2814 (none) (none) (none) Broken Cylinder Seal. Carnelian. Assyrian influence about BC 700. Tree of life and genius. [drawing]
3318 (none) (none) B16479 Brick of Kurigalzu. Type B: Ka-gal-mah: Great Gate Cast [drawing]
3147 (none) 1927,1003.275 (none) Brick of Kurigalzu. Construction of E-Dub-lal-mah.
1165 (none) (none) B15885 Black stone gate socket, with long but incomplete inscr. running round the side. Beginning and end lost, partly by the breaking off of one side of the stone, partly by flaking away the surface. 42 ll remain, recording the building of an archive-house (dub-la-mah), annexed to the court of justice, by Bur-Sin I, king of Ur. The text ends with blessings and curses upon those who should respect or destroy the king's monument. Photo 147 RI.71
3248 (none) (none) (none) Arrowhead. Copper overlaid with gold. Haft of copper only. [drawing 1:1]
2740 (none) (none) (none) Alabaster bowl fragment. From shallow bowl, scalloped on outside.

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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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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.