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)
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.
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.
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.
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]
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.
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.
1353 (none) (none) (none) Leg and hoof (of bull?). Thin gold leaf. [drawing 1:1]
1354 (none) (none) (none) Fragment from base of inscribed clay cone of uncertain authorship: 2 or 3 signs alone remain.
1356 (none) (none) (none) Fragment of black diorite, with traces of an inscription, probably of the 3rd Dynasty of Ur.
1357 (none) (none) (none) Gate socket of Ur-Nammu, with inscription duplicate of the bricks from the Ziggurat. SAKI p.186a.
1358 (none) (none) (none) Flint implement. Spoon-shaped, the haft broken off. [drawing 1:1]
1359 (none) (none) (none) Shell amulet. In form of a left hand; pierced at wrist for suspension. [drawing 1:1]
1360 (none) (none) (none) Figurine. Fragment. Body only. Red clay: modeled. [drawing 1:1]
1362 (none) (none) B15756 Bronze implement. (Drill?): square in section. [drawing 1:1]
1367 (none) (none) B15322, B15322 Sandstone gate socket of Kurigalzu, with inscription similar to that of U.1208, 9 lines.
1389 (none) (none) (none) Drab clay fragment. Horse's head and neck. modeled. [drawing 1:1]
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Media Media Title Title Label Author Omeka Label
Ur Excavations V: The Ziggurat and its Surroundings Ur Excavations V: The Ziggurat and its Surroundings 1939 Woolley Leonard (none)
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PS - Room 1 - Well no. 1