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)
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.
15653 (none) (none) (none) Tablet. List of objects of wood: & totals. HC1050.
15737 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta Head. PUZUZU in 3/4 relief. Fine specimen.
15777 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Baked clay.
15790 (none) (none) (none) Copper tweezers. Type same as 15789
15791A (none) (none) (none) [A-B] A pair of copper bangles. Circular.
15792 (none) (none) (none) 5 beads. Carnelian rings.
15793 (none) (none) (none) Scaraboid seal. Glazed. [drawing 1:1]
15806 (none) (none) (none) Amulet. Carnelian stamp seal. Engraved with figure of a squatting sphinx. [drawing 1:1]
15808A (none) (none) (none) [A-B] 2 copper bangles. Heavy C-shaped with checkered ends.
15808B (none) (none) (none) [A-B] 2 copper bangles. Heavy C-shaped with checkered ends.
15809 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Lapis and carnelian beads. Glazed balls.
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]
16101 (none) (none) (none) Vase. Glass paste: blue
16109A (none) (none) (none) Terracotta Relief. Nude woman with hands clasped over breast, hair-in close- set parallel waves. Good modelling. Type III c.z. (A) Fragment broken away at hips: good impression; (B) Fragment broken away at hips good impression; (C) Fragment almost identical but from a slightly larger mould, fragment broken off at waist.
16113 (none) (none) (none) Scaraboid seal. Yellow glazed frit. [drawing 1:1]
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).
16116A (none) (none) (none) [A-B] Pair of copper bangles. C-shaped ends. [drawing]
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]
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.
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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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