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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Object U Number Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) Museum Number (BM Registration Number) Museum Number (UPM B-number) Description (Catalog Card)
640 (none) 1923,1110.8 (none) Large clay cone. On base, 2 column inscription, 2nd column nearly all broken away. 1st col. 14 lines. On shaft, single column 28 lines. Inscription of Rim-Sin of Larsa. Recording his building of a temple? Called E-erim-kud-kud, for his own life and for that of his father Kudur-Mabug. The temple was dedicated to the war-god Nergal, to whom the king prays for success in battle.
641 (none) 1923,1110.5 (none) Large clay cone. On base 2 column inscription, slightly damaged left top+bottom corners. 25 + 24 lines. On shaft: beginnings of 25 lines. Inscription of Arad-Sin. Recording his building of a temple to the goddess Onanna, called E-dilmun[na, on behalf of his own life. Inscription duplicate of [underlined]Clay.Miscell.Inscription no. 31. 113914 (Hall's coll.) is fragment of another duplicate.
642 (none) 1923,1110.6 (none) Large clay cone. On base 2 col inscription, damaged top right and bottom right corners, 17+19 lines. On shafts, parts of 2 column inscription. Inscription of R-Sin of Larsa.
700 (none) 1935,1110.629 (none) Large clay cone, nearly complete. Base 2 column inscription, top right corner damaged 25 + 25 lines. Repeated on shaft, complete. Arad-Sin. Duplicate of U.19
701 (none) (none) (none) Clay cone, nearly complete. Inscription of Ur-Engur concerning building of E-temen-ni-il. See U.201
702 (none) (none) (none) Large clay cone, base and shaft badly damageD. of base, parts of 2 column inscription. Shaft, beginnings of lines of 1st column Rim-Sin.
703 (none) (none) (none) Fragment from top of large clay cone. Ends of lines of 2nd column of Arad-Sin inscription(?)
704A (none) (none) (none) [A-F] 6 fragments. Possibly belonging to Cones found here. Placed in box numbered.
750 (none) (none) (none) Fragment from top of large clay cone. Inscription of Rim-Sin. Duplicate of SAKI p.218, Steintagel A.
751 (none) (none) (none) Base of large inscribed cone. Fragments of 2 col inscrip. Duplicate of See SAKI p.212 Tonnagel. Arad-Sin. Dup of U.19.
752 (none) 1923,1110.12 (none) Clay cone. 2 col inscription on base, damaged at bottom. Single column on shaft, nearly complete. Rim-Sin. Recording the king's building of a temple called E-eshbar-zida for the god Ninsianna.
753 (none) (none) (none) Fragment of base of large clay cone. 2 + 3 lines from bottom of 2 col inscription, probably of Arad-Sin. Dup of U.19.
778 (none) (none) (none) Clay cone, large, in many fragments. Inscription of Arad-Sin. Placed in separate box labled U.778.
779 (none) 1923,1110.9 (none) Clay Cone, base of larger. Inscription of Arad-Sin. Recording the king's building of a temple to the war-god Ilbaba, in gratitude for victory over his enemies.
780 (none) 1923,1110.7 (none) Large clay cone. Inscription of Rim [written above; Arab is scratched out] -Sin, dedication to Tammus. Recording the king's building of a temple called Ka'-li-sud for Tammuz, the rustic god, and praying that he may prosper and increase the flocks and herds.
781 (none) 1923,1110.10 (none) Large clay cone, shaft broken. Inscription of [three words crossed out] Rim-Sin. Dedicated to Nannar. Commemorating the king's building of edifice [written above crossed out word 'temple'] called E-ginabtum (some sort of storehouse, cf. P.A.XV. P.18.n10) to the god, and containing laudatory epithets applied to the moon.
782 (none) (none) (none) Segment from large clay cone. Inscription of Rim-Sin on base and shaft. Practically illegible. Nothing but fragments of titles preserved.
783 (none) 1923,1110.13 (none) Fragment from shaft of large clay cone. Parts of 2 col inscription, of [Arad-Sin crossed out] Rim-Sin, dedication to Enlil (?) Inscr. contains substance of the date formula for 15th. year of Rim-Sin.
983B (none) (none) (none) Fragment of base of large clay cone, showing ends of 12 lines of 1st column and whole of second column, 24 lines or parts of lines. Either Arad-Sin or Rim-Sin.
984B (none) (none) (none) Fragment of shaft of large cone. Parts of 21 lines. Unidentified.
1001 (none) (none) (none) Steatite plaque. One side flat, one convex. Rectangular. Uninscribed. Sent to Baghdad. Found with U.1000
1044 (none) (none) B15271 Button seal. White quartzite, oval top. Roughly engraved with date. [drawing]
1191 (none) 1924,0920.22 (none) Large black diorite gate-socket, dedicated in the cult-temple of GIMIL-SIN, king of Ur (3rd Dynasty), by a certain Lugal-magu-rri, patesi of Ur. The inscription of 16 lines is engraved on the upper surface partly surrounding the socket hole.
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.
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Ur Excavations V: The Ziggurat and its Surroundings Ur Excavations V: The Ziggurat and its Surroundings 1939 Woolley Leonard (none)
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