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)
2742 (none) (none) (none) Copper chisel(?) Slightly bent, bent metal well preserved. [drawing 1:1]
2678 (none) (none) (none) Curved knife blade (?) Copper or bronze.
2661 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. grey limestone. Rampant lion attacked by two figures of Gilgamesh. About BC 2600-2300. [drawing]
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.
2673 (none) (none) (none) Door-socket of dGimil-dSin, beloved of Enlil, the king whom Enlil has chosen as the delight of his heart, the mighty king, king of Ur, king of the 4 regions of the world, his god, Lugal-ma-gur-gur-ri, the commandment of the fortress, patesi of Ur, his servant has built his beloved temple. (Another example in Berlin VA.3302)
2674 (none) 1927,1003.60 (none) Door-socket of Sin-balatsu-iqbi (time of Ashurbanapal) shakkanak (vice regent) of Ur son of Ningal-iddinna. Restoration of Elemen-ni-gur. In particular of the gate-way to Esag-dili (the Ziggurat). The gate was built in the middle of the terrace of the temenos, on the procession way (! e hal-la-ta du-a). The door was of boxwood, fixed with bronze pegs in massive walls, had a gold USH, a silverlock, silver plated bronze binding (?). See notes. H.C.
2675 (none) (none) (none) Door-socket of Ur-Engur with the usual inscription: UrdEngur, king of Ur who has built the temple of Nannar?
2736 (none) 1927,1003.3 (none) Door-socket of Ur-Engur. Text: To Innina, the great lady, his lady, Ur dEngur, the mighty heero, king of Ur, king of Sumer and Akkad, Es-bur her beloved house he has built. Es = shrine, house. Bur = pot, vase H.C.
2639 (none) (none) (none) Figurine fragment. Pinkish drab ware: flounced skirt feet only. [drawing 1:1]
2718 (none) (none) (none) Figurine mould. Fragmentary: of reddish ware, showing moulding for legs 4 feet.
2745 (none) (none) (none) Flint arrowhead. Blue flint: barbed and finely worked. [drawing 1:1]
2744 (none) 1927,1003.263 (none) Flint arrowhead. Leafshaped with fine teeth. [drawing 1:1]
3263 (none) (none) (none) Fragment of 2 Columns (?) Inscription. Bluish stone (soapstone?) About BC 2100. H.C.
2752 (none) 1927,1003.258 (none) Fragment of inlay. Lapis-lazuli, with incised lines representing hair or water. [drawing 1:1]
3264 (none) (none) B16676 Fragment of stone stela. Obverse 3 fragments. Largest shows seated goddess faced by conventional tree and king pouring libation with with attendant behind. A 4th figure from another scene in same register, fitting fragment (F) of U.2761. Reverse fragmentary scene representing slaughter of animals for sacrifice. In Cat. Ur-Nammu stela.
3266 (none) (none) B16676 Fragment of stone stela. Obverse and reverse show king standing and flying angel pouring water for blessing on lands. Condition very bad. Ur-Nammu stela. In cat.
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.
3329 (none) (none) B16676 Fragments of stone stela (U.2761, U.3264) representing building scene. Ur-Nammu stela in cat.
3330A 98-9-12 (none) B16676 Fragments of stone stela (U.2761, U.3264, U.3329) with details of figures, dress, stone surface, etc... Ur-Nammu stela in cat.
3330B 98-9-13 (none) B16676 Fragments of stone stela (U.2761, U.3264, U.3329) with details of figures, dress, stone surface, etc... Ur-Nammu stela in cat.
3330C 98-9-14 (none) B16676 Fragments of stone stela (U.2761, U.3264, U.3329) with details of figures, dress, stone surface, etc... Ur-Nammu stela in cat.
3330D 98-9-15 (none) B16676 Fragments of stone stela (U.2761, U.3264, U.3329) with details of figures, dress, stone surface, etc... Ur-Nammu stela in cat.
3330E 98-9-16 (none) B16676 Fragments of stone stela (U.2761, U.3264, U.3329) with details of figures, dress, stone surface, etc... Ur-Nammu stela in cat.
3330F 98-9-16 (none) B16676 Fragments of stone stela (U.2761, U.3264, U.3329) with details of figures, dress, stone surface, etc... Ur-Nammu stela in cat.
3330G 98-9-20 (none) B16676 Fragments of stone stela (U.2761, U.3264, U.3329) with details of figures, dress, stone surface, etc... Ur-Nammu stela in cat.

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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.