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)
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
11012 (none) (none) (none) Tablet. Account of a masdaria of asses? Dated: mu-en-am-gal-an-n (a?) endninni ba-su -- Bur-sin 5 (new? confirming T. Dangin Anm. e & f.) HC..335
3205 (none) (none) (none) Stone weight. Fragment. Blue stone. Probably Ibi-Sin. Type ? H.C.
3328 (none) (none) B16676 Stone stela fragment. Shows portion of figure holding up libation cup before altar, behind which a nude figure, supported by priest in attitude of devotion. Ur-Nammu stela in Cat.
2643 (none) 1927,1003.72 (none) Stone seal. Flat seal, pierced for suspension: design obliterated. Roughly circular.
3104 (none) (none) (none) Statuette fragment. Black diorite: lower part of draped figure with flounced costume: feet broken off.
2732 (none) 1927,1003.58 (none) Statue of Da-da-i-lum. Fragment of bust. Inscription of 2 lines on right shoulder: Da-da-i-lum Si-lim ilZu-fa = Dadailum Protection of Sin. Name is semitic and also the prayer Silu(m) protection, and the writing to Zu-en (= Sin) H.C.
2694 (none) (none) (none) Statue fragment. Diorite, from lower part of figure, showing fringe of robe. Sketch [drawing 1:2]
2735 (none) (none) (none) Statue fragment. Blue diorite; lower part of figure only, showing skin and back of skirt fringe; feet also broken off. [drawing 1:1]
2791 (none) (none) (none) Square copper nail. Headless. [drawing 1:1]
2743 (none) (none) (none) Spatulate blade. Iron: bent in a curve. [drawing]
3260 (none) (none) (none) Small stone weight. Sausage-shaped with four small cuts to indicate value. Type III. [drawing 1:1]
11037 (none) (none) (none) Seal Impression. Scribe. Invoking a king (name lost) Throned divinity. HC..178
11039 (none) (none) (none) Seal Impression. Scribe. Inscription invoking king (name lost) Seated divinity with cup? Worshipper with lamb. HC..180
11040 (none) (none) (none) Seal Impression. Presentation scene: Seated divinity and 2 figures. HC..181
11038 (none) (none) (none) Seal Impression. Inscription invoking a king (name lost). HC..179
11036 47-29-444 (none) (none) Seal Impression. 1-fragment from Dub-lalmah archive. Seal of son of Ur-dingir-ra? Lugal Ka-gi-na. Present: scene showing only Patron (with both hands raised) and Client. HC..177
2684 (none) (none) (none) Seal cylinder. Weather worn. Soapstone. [drawing]
3236 (none) (none) (none) Seal cylinder. Soapstone. IIIrd Ur Dynasty. [drawing]
3257 (none) (none) (none) Seal cylinder. Limestone. About BC 2300. [drawing]
2649 (none) (none) (none) Seal cylinder. Fragment. Soapstone. Scene: Two standing worshippers with one hand up. Behind them in the field the emblem of Nergal: a weapon formed of two curved blades on either side of central club - lion's heads at the end of each blade. [drawing]
3237 (none) (none) (none) Seal cylinder. Diorite. IIIrd Ur Dynasty. [drawing]
3256 (none) (none) (none) Seal cylinder. Carnelian. About BC 700. [drawing]
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
3217B (none) 1927,1003.131 (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

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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.