Great Nanna Courtyard | PD

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Context Title:	Great Nanna Courtyard \| PD
Context Name (Publication):	Great Nannar Courtyard
Context Name (Excavation):	PD
Context Description:	The meaning of this two-letter designation is unclear. It may derive from Woolley's search for Shulgi's palace and may thus stand for Palace of Dungi. Woolley came to realize, however, that it was an enormous courtyard surrounded by rooms, and at times in the excavation it was simply referred to as the Ziggurat Courtyard. The path through the court led to the ziggurat terrace and eventually to the temple atop it. The court was likely a gathering place for special occasions of worship to the moon god (whose name Woolley read Nannar, but which we read today as Nanna). Therefore, Woolley eventually dubbed this space the Great Nannar Courtyard. Area PD is the large space to the east of the ziggurat terrace, substantially lower in elevation than the base of the ziggurat. It had many floors over many periods. It consisted of a large paved courtyard (some 50 x 75 meters) surrounded by rooms that may have been used for storage. Because of indentations in some of the wall faces, Woolley believed there was once an inset wooden colonnade along some of the walls.
Season Number:	02: 1923-1924
Season Number:	06: 1927-1928
Season Number:	07: 1928-1929

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U Number	Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)	Museum Number (BM Registration Number)	Museum Number (UPM B-number)	Description (Catalog Card)
12565A	(none)	(none)	(none)	Tablet. Archaic accounts. HC 410
12565B	(none)	(none)	(none)	Unknown.
12566	(none)	(none)	(none)	Tablet. Globular archaic accounts. HC 412
12567	(none)	(none)	(none)	Tablet. Small fragment of archaic accounts. HC 331
12568	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cone. Fragment (nearly complete text). Sumuilum = R1U 115. Variant as U.7777.
12570	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cone. (Warad-Sin or Rim-Sin). Fragment. Part of 14 lines. Partly identical with R1U 130. (Perhaps identical inscription? But RIU 130, 10 is different in one sign; and present inscription is from first or incomplete column of stem (and corresponding part of R1U 130 is from a second column (of head?). HC 116
12571	(none)	1948,0423.89	(none)	Brick. Sin-iddinam complete (30 lines) R1U 119. HC 115
12609	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta head. Of female (deity?) Missing below chin. On the head a wig held in position by a bandeau. Wig forms an apex in middle of the forehead below the bandeau and curves downwards on either side so as to pass over the ears. At right ear heavy double lunate earring; left ear missing. Hair parted in the middle. On top of head the hair is indicated by finely incised parallel lines running obliquely to the parting: heavier radial incisions indicate lower portion of wig below bandeau. Pronounced arched eyebrows: pellet eyes. Nose and mouth no longer in condition.
12612	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta figurine. Upper portion missing. Male? Figure wearing a skirt open on one side and revealing one leg. Skirt to feet, represented by incised lines, parallel. Right hand holds a (battle axe?) head of which rests against abdomen, handle parallel to ground. On right of figure standing waist high an object resembling a hoe is fixed into the ground the haft appears as thin spiral column and at the upper end two curved prongs.
1262	(none)	1924,0920.250	(none)	Baked clay cone, the apex missing, but inscription intact. 14 lines in one column inscription of: Sin-balatsu-ikbi, governor of Ur, recording his restoration of E-temen-ni-gur, in honor of the god Sin. R1 No. 183
1263	(none)	(none)	(none)	Barrel-shaped bead of baked clay, pierced lengthwise, and inscribed with 11 lines of a text (partly obliterated) relating to the dues of a temple for a 2 months of the year.
12688	(none)	1929,1017.365	(none)	Cylinder seal. Glazed frit. Bluish green. Inscribed. 7 columns of inscription and a remaining portion of seal a heavily draped standing figure right hand upraised in salutation engraving of head has flaked away.
12689	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Glazed frit. Bluish green. Inscribed. Broken and much decayed.
12690	30-12-47	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Glazed frit. Blue-green. Winged dragon, rampant lion. Star.
12691	30-12-46	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Shell. White. Poor cutting. Eagle in flight, antelopes? Bulls.
12795A	30-12-18	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Steatite. Squat furniture type. Poor cutting. Stags? In procession and signs of doubtful import.
13032	(none)	(none)	(none)	Foundation deposit. Clay vase baked. Containing specimens of the 3 standard metals (a) strip gold, (p) copper, (y) silver. Very badly broken. Larsa see type (7) and MELM's field note (type 5).
13033A	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-B] 2 painted pots. Baked clay. Badly broken. 1 certainly complete the other probably complete.
13033B	31-17-328	(none)	(none)	[A-B] 2 painted pots. Baked clay. Badly broken. 1 certainly complete the other probably complete.
13051A	(none)	(none)	(none)	Group of objects. [A] (1) Painted potsherds. [B] (2) Animal bones . [C] (3) Fragment of limestone. [D] (4) Clay stopper for vase. Unbaked.
13051B	(none)	(none)	(none)	Group of objects. [A] (1) Painted potsherds. [B] (2) Animal bones . [C] (3) Fragment of limestone. [D] (4) Clay stopper for vase. Unbaked.
13051C	(none)	(none)	(none)	Group of objects. [A] (1) Painted potsherds. [B] (2) Animal bones . [C] (3) Fragment of limestone. [D] (4) Clay stopper for vase. Unbaked.
13051D	(none)	(none)	(none)	Group of objects. [A] (1) Painted potsherds. [B] (2) Animal bones . [C] (3) Fragment of limestone. [D] (4) Clay stopper for vase. Unbaked.
1327	(none)	(none)	(none)	Fragment from head of a large black diorite statue of a king of the 3rd Dyn (?) of Ur. Remains of an inscriptoin appear above the hair over the left forehead.
1351	(none)	1924,0920.393	(none)	Fragment from base of large inscribed clay cone. Beginning of inscription of Warad-Sin king of Larsa: duplicate of U.19, U.700, etc.