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)
2741B (none) (none) (none) Copper bolts. On in good condition [B]. [drawing 1:1]
2742 (none) (none) (none) Copper chisel(?) Slightly bent, bent metal well preserved. [drawing 1:1]
2743 (none) (none) (none) Spatulate blade. Iron: bent in a curve. [drawing]
2745 (none) (none) (none) Flint arrowhead. Blue flint: barbed and finely worked. [drawing 1:1]
2760 (none) (none) (none) Votive mace head. Black diorite, uninscribed. Sketch roughly 1:4 showing central boring. Close to U.2758. [drawing 1:4]
2790 (none) (none) (none) Lapis-lazuli paste. Fragment. Sketch. [drawing 1:1]
2791 (none) (none) (none) Square copper nail. Headless. [drawing 1:1]
2814 (none) (none) (none) Broken Cylinder Seal. Carnelian. Assyrian influence about BC 700. Tree of life and genius. [drawing]
2855 (none) (none) (none) Ur-Engur door-socket. Usual text: builder of E-Nannar.
2861A (none) (none) B16466 Two bricks of Bur Sin. (A) Complete text in 2 Columns (Duplicate on sides) (B) Only 2nd column
2861B (none) (none) (none) Two bricks of Bur Sin. (A) Complete text in 2 Columns (Duplicate on sides) (B) Only 2nd column
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.
3060 (none) (none) (none) Copper arrowhead. Simple blade. [drawing 1:1]
3104 (none) (none) (none) Statuette fragment. Black diorite: lower part of draped figure with flounced costume: feet broken off.
3136 (none) (none) (none) Moulded Brick. Fragment. [drawing 1:4]
3137 (none) (none) (none) Moulded brick. [drawing 1:8]
3138 (none) (none) (none) Moulded brick. [drawing 1:8]
3144 (none) (none) (none) Moulded brick. [drawing 1:8]
3145A (none) (none) (none) [A-B] 2 examples. Second broken. [moulded brick?] [drawing 1:8]
3205 (none) (none) (none) Stone weight. Fragment. Blue stone. Probably Ibi-Sin. Type ? H.C.
3215 98-9-20 (none) B16676 Ur-Engur, king of Ur Inscription on a fragment of white limestone relief, probably from a larger scene on a stele. Rest of standing figure probably of the king dressed in a long fringed shawl (being introduced to a seated God?) 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
3236 (none) (none) (none) Seal cylinder. Soapstone. IIIrd Ur Dynasty. [drawing]

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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.