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)
3926 (none) (none) (none) Not Assigned
3927 (none) (none) (none) Not Assigned
3929 (none) (none) (none) [Card Missing]
3930 47-29-160 (none) (none) Not Assigned
3931 47-29-152 (none) (none) Not Assigned
3932 (none) (none) (none) Not Assigned
3933 (none) (none) (none) Not Assigned
3934 (none) (none) (none) Not Assigned
3935 (none) (none) (none) Not Assigned
3936 (none) (none) (none) Not Assigned
3937 (none) (none) (none) [Card Missing]
3938 47-29-133 (none) (none) Not Assigned
3939 47-29-280 (none) (none) Not Assigned
3941 47-29-131 (none) (none) Not Assigned
3942 (none) (none) (none) [Card Missing]
3943 (none) (none) (none) Not Assigned
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.
11002 (none) (none) (none) Tablet. Account of wool received (NB. lal? below gu-?) cf. 11008 and 11007?) (47) x 39mm......Note on U.11002-11040. Children brought in 51 fragments of business documents from near the surface of Room 6 of Edub-lal-mah. 39 are kept and described in this catalog. Dates: 36 and 37 Dungi (probably): cf. U.11019 and 11004 and Bur-sin 5: cf. U.11012 and 11030. All seem to be notes of goods received. Su-ba-an-ti occurs on U.11005(?) U.11013 and 11019 to 11026. Few formulas preserved: ki-, U.11011; dub-, U.11027; mu-tum, U.11013, U.11030; mas-da-ri-a, U.11012). U.11028 and following - ? the e-dub-ba is mentioned U.11030, 11031 and perhaps in U.11032, 11019 Contents: U.11002-11010 (probably) deal with wool, weavers, or clothes: U.11011-11014 with beasts: U.11015-11018 with corn. The functionary Ur-Dungi-ra occurs probably on 9 tablets (U.11010, 11013, 11019 to 11023, U.11026 and seal 11036). cf. also U.10628 to 10630. cf. further U.11041 & ff. HC..325
11003 (none) (none) (none) Tablet. Fragment about weavers. 1.3. n.pr. lu-a-kam? HC..326
11004 (none) (none) (none) Tablet. Fragment dated mu-us-( bad-gal ma-( ) mus-us-s (a ) - a new from of date for Dungi 37? (cf. U.11042) It will follow further that the bad-gal of U.11019 and elsewhere (U.10617, U.10629, 10630) is the Bad-gal ma-da. Seal impression of Na...dub-sar: dumu AraddN (annar?) HC..327
11005 (none) (none) (none) Tablets. Other fragments (probably) referring to clothes, wool, and weavers. HC..328
11006 (none) (none) (none) Tablets. Other fragments (probably) referring to clothes, wool, and weavers. HC..329
11007 (none) (none) (none) Tablets. Other fragments (probably) referring to clothes, wool, and weavers. HC..330
11008 (none) (none) (none) Tablets. Other fragments (probably) referring to clothes, wool, and weavers. HC..331
11009 (none) (none) (none) Tablets. Other fragments (probably) referring to clothes, wool, and weavers. HC..332

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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.