Dublalmah | LL - UrOnline

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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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UE 8 Temples Edublalmah and Emurianabag.pdf - Download

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U Number	Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)	Museum Number (BM Registration Number)	Museum Number (UPM B-number)	Description (Catalog Card)
2740	(none)	(none)	(none)	Alabaster bowl fragment. From shallow bowl, scalloped on outside.
3248	(none)	(none)	(none)	Arrowhead. Copper overlaid with gold. Haft of copper only. [drawing 1:1]
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
3147	(none)	1927,1003.275	(none)	Brick of Kurigalzu. Construction of E-Dub-lal-mah.
3318	(none)	(none)	B16479	Brick of Kurigalzu. Type B: Ka-gal-mah: Great Gate Cast [drawing]
2814	(none)	(none)	(none)	Broken Cylinder Seal. Carnelian. Assyrian influence about BC 700. Tree of life and genius. [drawing]
2751	(none)	1927,1003.105	(none)	Bronze arrowhead. Triangular pattern [drawing 1:1]
2644	(none)	(none)	(none)	Bronze pin. [drawing 1:1]
2670	(none)	(none)	(none)	Carved relief. Limestone, with figures of Ea and attendant gods. 3rd Dynasty period.
3245	(none)	1927,1003.46	(none)	Clay cone of Libit-Ishtar. Fragment Same as SAKI. P.204.
3247	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay cone of Warad-Sin. Fragment. Restoration of E-temen-ni-il SAKI p.212
2528	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay jar stopper. Drab ware, broken off at end. Sketch. [drawing 1:2]
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.
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.
2655	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay pot stand. Greenish drab ware. Type CXXXIII.
2738	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay saucer. Drab ware : wheel made and very thick. Type CXX. With U.2739 (Ishme Dagan?)
2739	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay saucer. Drab ware : wheel made very thick. Type CXLI. With U.2738 (Ishme Dagan?)
2717	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay stopper [stopper crossed out and replaced with ear-stand?] Fine quality baked clay. Fragmentary. [drawing 1:1]
3011	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay tablet. Neo-Babylonian Syllabary.
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.
2652	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay tablet. Pillow shape. Fragment. Persian period. [drawing]
3251	(none)	1927,1003.48	(none)	Cone of Libit-Ishtar. Fragment. Same as 3245 = SAKI. P.204.
3060	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper arrowhead. Simple blade. [drawing 1:1]
2741A	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper bolts. On in good condition [B]. [drawing 1:1]
2741B	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper bolts. On in good condition [B]. [drawing 1:1]

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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)