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)
8815B (none) (none) (none) Tablets. Fragments in the same script as U.7838. (A) Fragment of King List? (useless owing to condition) (B) Fragment of list of names beginning Lu dingir...
8816A (none) (none) (none) Tablets. Lists of words. NB(1) the largest is a list of fishes cf. U.7792. (c) the lists may duplicate U.7838A?
8816B (none) (none) (none) Tablets. Lists of words. NB(1) the largest is a list of fishes cf. U.7792. (c) the lists may duplicate U.7838A?
8816C (none) (none) (none) Tablets. Lists of words. NB(1) the largest is a list of fishes cf. U.7792. (c) the lists may duplicate U.7838A?
8816D (none) (none) (none) Tablets. Lists of words. NB(1) the largest is a list of fishes cf. U.7792. (c) the lists may duplicate U.7838A?
8816E (none) (none) (none) Tablets. Lists of words. NB(1) the largest is a list of fishes cf. U.7792. (c) the lists may duplicate U.7838A?
8816F (none) (none) (none) Tablets. Lists of words. NB(1) the largest is a list of fishes cf. U.7792. (c) the lists may duplicate U.7838A?
8816G (none) (none) (none) Tablets. Lists of words. NB(1) the largest is a list of fishes cf. U.7792. (c) the lists may duplicate U.7838A?
8816H (none) (none) (none) Tablets. Lists of words. NB(1) the largest is a list of fishes cf. U.7792. (c) the lists may duplicate U.7838A?
8816I (none) (none) (none) Tablets. Lists of words. NB(1) the largest is a list of fishes cf. U.7792. (c) the lists may duplicate U.7838A?
8816J (none) (none) (none) Tablets. Lists of words. NB(1) the largest is a list of fishes cf. U.7792. (c) the lists may duplicate U.7838A?
7839A (none) (none) (none) Tablets. (A) Round school? tablet. (B) label with seal impression. (C) fragments of envelope with seal impression: a-ab-: ^dNin-. (D) curious tablet with linear pattern. (E) dub ma ^dNanna(r)-Ka. (F) [remarked g?] ? lists of ... (2 fragments). (G) [remarked d?] fragments of large account tablets. cf. U.8822. () [f?] unmarked: numerous small business tablets mostly complete. Of the 5 which have cases and seal impressions. NB. the n. prop. Ur PA-LU-LU (Sib-udu? a new god?) and on another the rare god Lu ^dSukal-an.
7839C (none) (none) (none) Tablets. (A) Round school? tablet. (B) label with seal impression. (C) fragments of envelope with seal impression: a-ab-: ^dNin-. (D) curious tablet with linear pattern. (E) dub ma ^dNanna(r)-Ka. (F) [remarked g?] ? lists of ... (2 fragments). (G) [remarked d?] fragments of large account tablets. cf. U.8822. () [f?] unmarked: numerous small business tablets mostly complete. Of the 5 which have cases and seal impressions. NB. the n. prop. Ur PA-LU-LU (Sib-udu? a new god?) and on another the rare god Lu ^dSukal-an.
7839D (none) (none) (none) Tablets. (A) Round school? tablet. (B) label with seal impression. (C) fragments of envelope with seal impression: a-ab-: ^dNin-. (D) curious tablet with linear pattern. (E) dub ma ^dNanna(r)-Ka. (F) [remarked g?] ? lists of ... (2 fragments). (G) [remarked d?] fragments of large account tablets. cf. U.8822. () [f?] unmarked: numerous small business tablets mostly complete. Of the 5 which have cases and seal impressions. NB. the n. prop. Ur PA-LU-LU (Sib-udu? a new god?) and on another the rare god Lu ^dSukal-an.
7839E (none) (none) (none) Tablets. (A) Round school? tablet. (B) label with seal impression. (C) fragments of envelope with seal impression: a-ab-: ^dNin-. (D) curious tablet with linear pattern. (E) dub ma ^dNanna(r)-Ka. (F) [remarked g?] ? lists of ... (2 fragments). (G) [remarked d?] fragments of large account tablets. cf. U.8822. () [f?] unmarked: numerous small business tablets mostly complete. Of the 5 which have cases and seal impressions. NB. the n. prop. Ur PA-LU-LU (Sib-udu? a new god?) and on another the rare god Lu ^dSukal-an.
7839F (none) 1948,0423.289 (none) Tablets. (A) Round school? tablet. (B) label with seal impression. (C) fragments of envelope with seal impression: a-ab-: ^dNin-. (D) curious tablet with linear pattern. (E) dub ma ^dNanna(r)-Ka. (F) [remarked g?] ? lists of ... (2 fragments). (G) [remarked d?] fragments of large account tablets. cf. U.8822. () [f?] unmarked: numerous small business tablets mostly complete. Of the 5 which have cases and seal impressions. NB. the n. prop. Ur PA-LU-LU (Sib-udu? a new god?) and on another the rare god Lu ^dSukal-an.
7839G (none) (none) (none) Tablets. (A) Round school? tablet. (B) label with seal impression. (C) fragments of envelope with seal impression: a-ab-: ^dNin-. (D) curious tablet with linear pattern. (E) dub ma ^dNanna(r)-Ka. (F) [remarked g?] ? lists of ... (2 fragments). (G) [remarked d?] fragments of large account tablets. cf. U.8822. () [f?] unmarked: numerous small business tablets mostly complete. Of the 5 which have cases and seal impressions. NB. the n. prop. Ur PA-LU-LU (Sib-udu? a new god?) and on another the rare god Lu ^dSukal-an.
7839H 47-29-65, 47-29-65 (none) (none) Tablets. (A) Round school? tablet. (B) label with seal impression. (C) fragments of envelope with seal impression: a-ab-: ^dNin-. (D) curious tablet with linear pattern. (E) dub ma ^dNanna(r)-Ka. (F) [remarked g?] ? lists of ... (2 fragments). (G) [remarked d?] fragments of large account tablets. cf. U.8822. () [f?] unmarked: numerous small business tablets mostly complete. Of the 5 which have cases and seal impressions. NB. the n. prop. Ur PA-LU-LU (Sib-udu? a new god?) and on another the rare god Lu ^dSukal-an.
8818 (none) (none) (none) Tablets. Various fragments with lot 8813-8823. possibly of text? Not fully examined: in a box: not marked.
8822 (none) (none) (none) Tablets. Fragments of very large account tablets of early date. In box: not marked
8815A (none) (none) (none) Tablets. Fragments in the same script as U.7838. (A) Fragment of King List? (useless owing to condition) (B) Fragment of list of names beginning Lu dingir...
8819A (none) (none) (none) Tablets. Four fragmentary mathematical tables: "450 times" "36 times" "1000 times" "6 times" (?)
8819B (none) (none) (none) Tablets. Four fragmentary mathematical tables: "450 times" "36 times" "1000 times" "6 times" (?)
8819C (none) (none) (none) Tablets. Four fragmentary mathematical tables: "450 times" "36 times" "1000 times" "6 times" (?)
8819D (none) (none) (none) Tablets. Four fragmentary mathematical tables: "450 times" "36 times" "1000 times" "6 times" (?)

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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_p041 Ur_Notes_v2_p041 (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_p043c Ur_Notes_v2_p043c (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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