Context Title: SM     
Context Name (Excavation): SM     
Context Name (Publication): SM Site     
Context Description: The meaning of this excavation area abbreviation is not clear, but its location is known to be immediately southeast of the giparu (KP) extending to the ehursag (HT) in the east. Badly preserved remains of a building were found here, distinct from the giparu. On a tentative reconstruction of the ground plan, Woolley suggests the original structure measured some 35x40 meters. The building remains date to the Isin-Larsa/Old Babylonian period and many small tablets recording business transactions were found within. T.C. Mitchell, editing the UE 7 volume published after Woolley's death, notes that many of these tablets actually date to the reigns of Shulgi and Amar-Sin. According to Woolley, some of the tablets were twisted together as if in the process of being recycled to reuse their clay for new tablets. He also suggests, very tentatively and based only on a few minor and out-of-place bricks, that this building was originally a temple to Nin-Ezen.     
Season Number: 04: 1925-1926      
Season Number: 05: 1926-1927      

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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)
8806Z (none) (none) (none) [A-Q] Tablets. Business. 17 tablets. [R-AB] 11 fragments. dates on small tablets: (A) Dungi 36, (B) Dungi 37, (C) Dungi 41 (D) Dungi 54, (E) Mu-us-sa-bi. A: cf.U.7827 ppp?, F: cf.U.8810 F?
8806AA (none) (none) (none) [A-Q] Tablets. Business. 17 tablets. [R-AB] 11 fragments. dates on small tablets: (A) Dungi 36, (B) Dungi 37, (C) Dungi 41 (D) Dungi 54, (E) Mu-us-sa-bi. A: cf.U.7827 ppp?, F: cf.U.8810 F?
8806AB (none) (none) (none) [A-Q] Tablets. Business. 17 tablets. [R-AB] 11 fragments. dates on small tablets: (A) Dungi 36, (B) Dungi 37, (C) Dungi 41 (D) Dungi 54, (E) Mu-us-sa-bi. A: cf.U.7827 ppp?, F: cf.U.8810 F?
8806A 52-30-99 (none) (none) [A-Q] Tablets. Business. 17 tablets. [R-AB] 11 fragments. dates on small tablets: (A) Dungi 36, (B) Dungi 37, (C) Dungi 41 (D) Dungi 54, (E) Mu-us-sa-bi. A: cf.U.7827 ppp?, F: cf.U.8810 F?
7604 (none) (none) (none) Weight hematite. Dark green. Lentoid. Type II.
7611 (none) 1928,1009.456 (none) Weight haematite. Dark green. Conoid. Type IV.
7677 (none) (none) B17223 Terracotta mould for adze head. [drawing 1:2]
7814A (none) (none) (none) Tablets. Fragments of some larger account-tablets found with the collection of small accounts U.7809 (probably). Some of these go with those from Destruction Dump (cf. 7838B, 8832) 7814 A and A belong together? 7814 B and B belong together?
7814B (none) (none) (none) Tablets. Fragments of some larger account-tablets found with the collection of small accounts U.7809 (probably). Some of these go with those from Destruction Dump (cf. 7838B, 8832) 7814 A and A belong together? 7814 B and B belong together?
7814C (none) (none) (none) Tablets. Fragments of some larger account-tablets found with the collection of small accounts U.7809 (probably). Some of these go with those from Destruction Dump (cf. 7838B, 8832) 7814 A and A belong together? 7814 B and B belong together?
7814D (none) (none) (none) Tablets. Fragments of some larger account-tablets found with the collection of small accounts U.7809 (probably). Some of these go with those from Destruction Dump (cf. 7838B, 8832) 7814 A and A belong together? 7814 B and B belong together?
7814E (none) (none) (none) Tablets. Fragments of some larger account-tablets found with the collection of small accounts U.7809 (probably). Some of these go with those from Destruction Dump (cf. 7838B, 8832) 7814 A and A belong together? 7814 B and B belong together?
7814F (none) (none) (none) Tablets. Fragments of some larger account-tablets found with the collection of small accounts U.7809 (probably). Some of these go with those from Destruction Dump (cf. 7838B, 8832) 7814 A and A belong together? 7814 B and B belong together?
7814G (none) 1948,0423.247 (none) Tablets. Fragments of some larger account-tablets found with the collection of small accounts U.7809 (probably). Some of these go with those from Destruction Dump (cf. 7838B, 8832) 7814 A and A belong together? 7814 B and B belong together?
7814H 47-29-385, 47-29-385 (none) (none) Tablets. Fragments of some larger account-tablets found with the collection of small accounts U.7809 (probably). Some of these go with those from Destruction Dump (cf. 7838B, 8832) 7814 A and A belong together? 7814 B and B belong together?
7814I 47-29-417 (none) (none) Tablets. Fragments of some larger account-tablets found with the collection of small accounts U.7809 (probably). Some of these go with those from Destruction Dump (cf. 7838B, 8832) 7814 A and A belong together? 7814 B and B belong together?
7814J (none) (none) (none) Tablets. Fragments of some larger account-tablets found with the collection of small accounts U.7809 (probably). Some of these go with those from Destruction Dump (cf. 7838B, 8832) 7814 A and A belong together? 7814 B and B belong together?
7814K (none) (none) (none) Tablets. Fragments of some larger account-tablets found with the collection of small accounts U.7809 (probably). Some of these go with those from Destruction Dump (cf. 7838B, 8832) 7814 A and A belong together? 7814 B and B belong together?
7814L (none) (none) (none) Tablets. Fragments of some larger account-tablets found with the collection of small accounts U.7809 (probably). Some of these go with those from Destruction Dump (cf. 7838B, 8832) 7814 A and A belong together? 7814 B and B belong together?
7814M (none) 1948,0423.208 (none) Tablets. Fragments of some larger account-tablets found with the collection of small accounts U.7809 (probably). Some of these go with those from Destruction Dump (cf. 7838B, 8832) 7814 A and A belong together? 7814 B and B belong together?
7814N (none) (none) (none) Tablets. Fragments of some larger account-tablets found with the collection of small accounts U.7809 (probably). Some of these go with those from Destruction Dump (cf. 7838B, 8832) 7814 A and A belong together? 7814 B and B belong together?
7838A (none) (none) (none) Tablets. Fragments of large tablets in a very large writing. (A) Lists. Note 4 fragments (which seem to make the edge of a tablet at least 20 cent. long) containing words beginning with gish: also 5 fragments of a tablet containing 2 or 3 columns of words beginning with Ur. (B) Smaller tablets with some large script. (C) 4 fragments of tablet with the large writing on one side and small on reverse. (D) Various fragments.
7838B (none) (none) (none) Tablets. Fragments of large tablets in a very large writing. (A) Lists. Note 4 fragments (which seem to make the edge of a tablet at least 20 cent. long) containing words beginning with gish: also 5 fragments of a tablet containing 2 or 3 columns of words beginning with Ur. (B) Smaller tablets with some large script. (C) 4 fragments of tablet with the large writing on one side and small on reverse. (D) Various fragments.
7838C (none) (none) (none) Tablets. Fragments of large tablets in a very large writing. (A) Lists. Note 4 fragments (which seem to make the edge of a tablet at least 20 cent. long) containing words beginning with gish: also 5 fragments of a tablet containing 2 or 3 columns of words beginning with Ur. (B) Smaller tablets with some large script. (C) 4 fragments of tablet with the large writing on one side and small on reverse. (D) Various fragments.
7838D (none) (none) (none) Tablets. Fragments of large tablets in a very large writing. (A) Lists. Note 4 fragments (which seem to make the edge of a tablet at least 20 cent. long) containing words beginning with gish: also 5 fragments of a tablet containing 2 or 3 columns of words beginning with Ur. (B) Smaller tablets with some large script. (C) 4 fragments of tablet with the large writing on one side and small on reverse. (D) Various fragments.

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Media Media Title Title Label Author Omeka Label
Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Ur_Notes_v2_p043c Ur_Notes_v2_p043c (none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Ur_Notes_v2_p042c Ur_Notes_v2_p042c (none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Ur_Notes_v2_p041 Ur_Notes_v2_p041 (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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