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)
7625 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Inscribed. Scene of worship. Shaven and shorn votary presented to enthroned Shamash who holds a pot in his left hand. Introducing goddess wears high headdress and flounced kaunakes skirt. Attributes: sun, crescent moon. Inscription: Ur-Su-bu-la; dumu I-me-x; wared Ud-KA-BAR-KU.
6587 (none) 1927,0527.1 (none) Fragment of Ur Nammu stela. Upper portion of frieze showing portion of crescent, upper part of headdress and 2 more crescents from left to right. Re-used in later period as door-socket. IIIrd Dynasty.
3943 (none) (none) (none) Not Assigned
3942 (none) (none) (none) [Card Missing]
3941 47-29-131 (none) (none) Not Assigned
3940 (none) 1948,0423.163 (none) [Card Missing]
3939 47-29-280 (none) (none) Not Assigned
3938 47-29-133 (none) (none) Not Assigned
3937 (none) (none) (none) [Card Missing]
3936 (none) (none) (none) Not Assigned
3935 (none) (none) (none) Not Assigned
3934 (none) (none) (none) Not Assigned
3933 (none) (none) (none) Not Assigned
3932 (none) (none) (none) Not Assigned
3931 47-29-152 (none) (none) Not Assigned
3930 47-29-160 (none) (none) Not Assigned
3929 (none) (none) (none) [Card Missing]
3928 (none) 1948,0423.94 (none) [Card Missing]
3927 (none) (none) (none) Not Assigned
3926 (none) (none) (none) Not Assigned
3925 47-29-63 (none) (none) [Card Missing]
3924 47-29-360 (none) (none) Not Assigned
3923 (none) 1948,0423.153 (none) [Card Missing]
3922 (none) 1948,0423.246 (none) [Card Missing]
3921 (none) (none) (none) [Card Missing]
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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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References

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.