Context Title: Nin-Giz-Zida Temple | Nin-Ezen Temple | NT     
Context Name (Publication): Nin-Gish-Zida Temple; Nin-Giz-Zid-Da Temple; Nin-Ezen Temple     
Context Name (Excavation): NT; Nebuchadnezzar's Temple     
Context Description: The excavation area abbreviation NT refers to a successive series of small temples built very near the city wall in the southwestern portion of Ur. The temple nearest the surface was that built in the Neo-Babylonian period and attributable to the reign of Nebuchadnezzar. The excavation area abbreviation NT actually stands for Nebuchadnezzar's temple. No Persian period temple was found here but Persian burials infringed on the building (see area NTB). Beneath the Neo-Babylonian temple Woolley discovered another, similar temple of the Kassite period. This one seemed to have two phases of construction, one phase attributable to the reign of Kurigalzu. Beneath this sat another temple of the Isin-Larsa/Old Babylonian period, also with two phases. One of these dated to the reign of Rim Sin and the other to that of Sin-Iddinam. Yet another temple sat beneath, but this one was very fragmentary and difficult to map. It likely belonged to the Ur III period but little could be discerned. Inscribed clay cones found in the Larsa levels give the name of the building as E-ni-gi-na and state that Rim-Sin restored this temple dedicated to Nin-gish-zida. Inscriptions in other levels show that this deity was honored here throughout the time periods but that Nin-Ezen (Ningizzida's consort) was also honored here in a kind of double shrine. Woolley suggested that another temple to Nin-Ezen appeared in the temenos area (see area SM) and that Ningizzida was the primary deity for this smaller temple in the southern city.     

Objects: Nin-Giz-Zida Temple | Nin-Ezen Temple | NT Export: JSON - XML - CSV

Object U Number Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) Museum Number (BM Registration Number) Museum Number (UPM B-number) Description (Catalog Card)
16117 31-43-66 (none) (none) Stamp seal. Mauve chalcedony(?) Concial-suspended by copper wire. Roughly engraved with figure of a man. [drawing]
16118 (none) (none) (none) Amulet. Puzuzu head. White shell
16120 (none) (none) (none) Scaraboid seal. Dark green glazed frit. Engraved with crescent moon and squatting man. [drawing]
16123 (none) 1931,1010.34 (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. 2 registers. Above: presentation scene - 3 standing figures. Below: geese(?).
16131 (none) (none) (none) Rectangular lead plaque. [Additional note on back of card, possibly worker names] [drawing 1:1]
16136 (none) (none) (none) Beads: glass paste double conoids: ball beads; pear shaped; 1 plain amethystine; quartz scaraboid; 1 lapis paste cuboid.
16137A (none) (none) (none) [A-B] Pair of scaraboid seals. Glaze paste.
16137B (none) (none) (none) [A-B] Pair of scaraboid seals. Glaze paste.
16138 (none) 1931,1010.218 (none) Beads: agate double conoids; carnelian double conoids; quartzite double concoids; carnelian ring beads.
16140A (none) (none) (none) [A-B] Pair. Scaraboid seals. Frit.
16140B (none) (none) (none) [A-B] Pair. Scaraboid seals. Frit.
16142 31-43-133 (none) (none) Beads: lapis paste double conoids: glazed frit double conoids; 1 amethystine quartz concial bead. [drawing]
16143A (none) 1931,1010.282 (none) [A-B] Pair. Copper Bangles. C-shaped with heavy ends. cf. U.16116
16143B (none) 1931,1010.282 (none) [A-B] Pair. Copper Bangles. C-shaped with heavy ends. cf. U.16116
16150 (none) 1931,1010.53 (none) Cylinder seal. Baked clay. Squatting monkey(?) bull, crescent moon .=L.622 [Typology?] Legrain puts seals 460-573 as Isin-Larsa. Numbers below 403 back to 270 as IIIrd Dynasty.
16169 (none) (none) (none) Vase. Apple green glazed baked clay.
16176 (none) (none) (none) Scaraboid seal. Lapis lazuli. Palm tree.
16201 (none) 1931,1010.292 (none) Copper bowl. Good condition. Persian date. [drawing]
16202 (none) (none) (none) Copper bracelets. heavy type with broken ends. Persian period. [drawing]
16203 31-43-612 (none) (none) Glazed pot. Blue glaze, much decayed, with grooved decoration. Persian period. Type 671 = 107P. [drawing]
16204 (none) (none) (none) Bronze Fibula. Persian period. Type 4.[drawing 1:1]
16205 (none) (none) (none) Beads: Dark steatite scaraboid, on the base a scorpion roughly drawn. Glazed scarab (glaze gone); and some glazed lentoid beads, one of pink pebble, one crystal bead & a big hematite ball bead. [drawing]
16206 (none) (none) (none) Arrowhead, bronze, 3-flanged, type L. UET V: 324 FOR 16206E)
16207 (none) (none) (none) Glazed pot. Persian period. Type 258. =188P. TA. [drawing]
16208A 31-43-510A (none) (none) [A-B] Bracelets, pair, copper. Rectangular section the ends floriate. Thus. [drawing]

Media: Nin-Giz-Zida Temple | Nin-Ezen Temple | NT Export: JSON - XML - CSV

Media Media Title Title Label Author Omeka Label
Ur Excavations VI; The Ur III Period Ur Excavations VI; The Ur III Period 1974 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)
Ur Excavations VII; The Old Babylonian Period Ur Excavations VII; The Old Babylonian Period 1976 Woolley, L. and M. Mallowan (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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