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      

Objects: SM Export: JSON - XML - CSV

Object U Number Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) Museum Number (BM Registration Number) Museum Number (UPM B-number) Description (Catalog Card)
7724 (none) (none) (none) Clay cone. Ur-Nammu = 872.
7723 (none) (none) (none) Brick. En-an-na-tum = U.6743 ? but different measure.
7722 (none) (none) (none) Clay cone. Ur-Nammu = U.202, 2520, 2701, 6019. Complete col.1, 8-9 apparently lacking hitherto? HC.20.
7721A (none) (none) (none) (none)
7721 (none) (none) (none) Brick. Lipit-Ishtar = U.3191, 6312, 6328 but measurements different. (Another in pavement of no. 5 Quiet Street Room 4)
7713B (none) (none) (none) Clay cones = Ur Nammu of Etemiennigur (SAK 188 A) = U.701 etc. [A-B] 2 whole, [C-X] 22 fragmentary from various places throughout the season. All to B[aghdad] except 1 whole and 1 broken)
7677 (none) (none) B17223 Terracotta mould for adze head. [drawing 1:2]
7631 (none) 1928,1009.50 (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Figure approaching enthroned Nannar. Behind the approaching figure a small grotesque being delineated by straight lines and beyond this a spear fixed vertically into the ground, point upwards. Behind Nannar a standing deity?
7622 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Shell. White. Two registers. Above, two seated deities facing one another, worshipper standing between them. Behind the major god a standing attendant. Below: spread eagle and 2 gazelles facing one another.
7616 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Limestone. Grey. Figures faint. 2 rampant lions facing one another; on either side a hero grasps each by the tail. Between the heroes a heavily draped erect deity. Attributes: snake, palm tree? and scorpion?
7615 (none) (none) B16894 Cylinder seal. Limestone. Grey. Figures faint. Scene of worship. Minor deity leads worshipper by the hand towards seated Nannar. Attributes: crescent moon and palm.
7613 30-12-175 (none) (none) Clay vase. Light drab. Type CCCIII = JN. 162
7611 (none) 1928,1009.456 (none) Weight haematite. Dark green. Conoid. Type IV.
7609 (none) (none) (none) Duck weight. Diorite. Black. modeled head reclining on back and at base webbed feet hitherto never represented on duck weights found at Ur. Type VI.
7604 (none) (none) (none) Weight hematite. Dark green. Lentoid. Type II.
7603 (none) (none) (none) Spatula. Copper. [drawing 1:1]
7600 (none) (none) B17195 Lion. Limestone. White. Fragment. Broken away behind back of head represented as couched, head resting on forelegs tips of which are missing. Flattened base. Cavity running length-ways down the middle of the body to receive post. Existing portion broken and mended.
7598A (none) (none) B17088 Ram's head. Diorite. Blue. Part of nostrils and mouth missing. also, front of neck. Traces of paste eyeballs inlaid in eye sockets. Straight neck through middle of which a hole 15mm in diameter; has been bored thus showing that it was originally an ornamental head standing on a pole and probably not a complete ram. cf. U ._ Gudea period? 2400-2300BC [drawing 1:1]
7381 (none) (none) (none) Not Assigned
7321 (none) (none) (none) No catalog card exists for this object: U.7289-7381 fell unassigned between seasons 4 and 5. They were later used for tablets found in Season 5 in area SM. They were originally part of U.7839, a large group of tablet fragments that were later separated and given individual numbers (Jacobsen AJA 57:128).
7320 (none) (none) (none) No catalog card exists for this object: U.7289-7381 fell unassigned between seasons 4 and 5. They were later used for tablets found in Season 5 in area SM. They were originally part of U.7839, a large group of tablet fragments that were later separated and given individual numbers (Jacobsen AJA 57:128).
7319 47-29-262 (none) (none) No catalog card exists for this object: U.7289-7381 fell unassigned between seasons 4 and 5. They were later used for tablets found in Season 5 in area SM. They were originally part of U.7839, a large group of tablet fragments that were later separated and given individual numbers (Jacobsen AJA 57:128).
7318 (none) (none) (none) No catalog card exists for this object: U.7289-7381 fell unassigned between seasons 4 and 5. They were later used for tablets found in Season 5 in area SM. They were originally part of U.7839, a large group of tablet fragments that were later separated and given individual numbers (Jacobsen AJA 57:128).
7317 (none) 1948,0423.15 (none) No catalog card exists for this object: U.7289-7381 fell unassigned between seasons 4 and 5. They were later used for tablets found in Season 5 in area SM. They were originally part of U.7839, a large group of tablet fragments that were later separated and given individual numbers (Jacobsen AJA 57:128).
7316 47-29-438 (none) (none) No catalog card exists for this object: U.7289-7381 fell unassigned between seasons 4 and 5. They were later used for tablets found in Season 5 in area SM. They were originally part of U.7839, a large group of tablet fragments that were later separated and given individual numbers (Jacobsen AJA 57:128).

Media: SM Export: JSON - XML - CSV

Media Media Title Title Label Author Omeka Label
Ur Excavations VII; The Old Babylonian Period Ur Excavations VII; The Old Babylonian Period 1976 Woolley, L. and M. Mallowan (none)
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)
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