Nin-Giz-Zida Temple | Nin-Ezen Temple | NT
| 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. |
| Object | U Number | Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) | Museum Number (BM Registration Number) | Museum Number (UPM B-number) | Description (Catalog Card) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 16001A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-C] Clay cones. Half of base missing. Rim-Sin. Temple of Ningishzida. (Base inscribed differently from stem) [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card] |
| 16001B | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-C] Clay cones. Half of base missing. Rim-Sin. Temple of Ningishzida. (Base inscribed differently from stem) [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card] |
| 16001C | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-C] Clay cones. Half of base missing. Rim-Sin. Temple of Ningishzida. (Base inscribed differently from stem) [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card] |
| 15792 | (none) | (none) | (none) | 5 beads. Carnelian rings. |
| 15806 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Amulet. Carnelian stamp seal. Engraved with figure of a squatting sphinx. [drawing 1:1] |
| 16118 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Amulet. Puzuzu head. White shell |
| 16206 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Arrowhead, bronze, 3-flanged, type L. UET V: 324 FOR 16206E) |
| 15809 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Lapis and carnelian beads. Glazed balls. |
| 16217A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads: (A) small gold lunate earring. (B) Glazed frit scaraboid; (C) A few beads, carnelian, lapis glaze, mixed shapes. Persian period. |
| 16217B | (none) | 1931,1010.226 | (none) | Beads: (A) small gold lunate earring. (B) Glazed frit scaraboid; (C) A few beads, carnelian, lapis glaze, mixed shapes. Persian period. |
| 16217C | (none) | 1931,1010.226 | (none) | Beads: (A) small gold lunate earring. (B) Glazed frit scaraboid; (C) A few beads, carnelian, lapis glaze, mixed shapes. Persian period. |
| 16285 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads: mostly amethyst. 4 facetted flattened lentoids, with these some squares of banded sard, small carnelian balls and some paste and shell rings, and a crescent-shaped pendant of agate. For order see Field Notes. |
| 16213 | 31-43-146 | (none) | (none) | Beads: A large number of rather irregularly shaped balls of banded green & yellow glaze, well preserved: larger ball beads of glass paste, dark blue with white veinings or plain blue: and a few smaller glass beads (clour gone) either bugles or..., these apprantly of yellow glaze; originally a very poor string. With these a scarab of pale blue glazed frit, fairly realistic. [drawing] | |
| 16212 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads: A mixed lot of paste, carnelian, agate, jasper, cats eye, crystal, breccia, sard, hematite, lapis, copper, amethyst. Order not kept. |
| 16138 | (none) | 1931,1010.218 | (none) | Beads: agate double conoids; carnelian double conoids; quartzite double concoids; carnelian ring beads. |
| 16115 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads: carnelian rings; white sard lentoid; green glaze balls; paste lentoids; amethyst double conoids; breceia triangle, agate barrels and lapis paste. (for order of stringing see Field Note). |
| 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] |
| 16136 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads: glass paste double conoids: ball beads; pear shaped; 1 plain amethystine; quartz scaraboid; 1 lapis paste cuboid. |
| 16142 | 31-43-133 | (none) | (none) | Beads: lapis paste double conoids: glazed frit double conoids; 1 amethystine quartz concial bead. [drawing] | |
| 16316 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bottle. Blue glazed. Type CCLVIII. 188P. [P188?] |
| 16214 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bowl, miniature limestone. With a solid knob projection (broken), and decoration of rosette on base & godroons on sides. [drawing] |
| 16204 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bronze Fibula. Persian period. Type 4.[drawing 1:1] |
| 15652 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay cone. Fragment: new. Partly similar to RIU138 & RIU144 (Rim-Sin): mentioning unusually many divinities. This inscription so far as preserved is identical with U.15662, exceept that instead of Nin-a-() in the penultimate line U.15662 has Ningiszida. HC.20. |
| 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] |
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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) |
| Ur Excavations VI; The Ur III Period | Ur Excavations VI; The Ur III Period | 1974 | Woolley, Leonard | (none) |
| Ur Excavations VII; The Old Babylonian Period | Ur Excavations VII; The Old Babylonian Period | 1976 | Woolley, L. and M. Mallowan | (none) |
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Sibling Locations
CLW Graves - Kassite Graves - Larsa Graves - Neo-Babylonian Graves - Persian Grave - Rim Sin Temple | RS
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References
Woolley, Leonard. (1974) Ur Excavations VI; The Ur III Period, Oxford: Oxford University Press.