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)
7839K (none) 1948,0423.66 (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.
8806B (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?
8806D (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?
8806E (none) 1948,0423.226 (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?
8806H (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?
8807 (none) (none) (none) Seal impression. On fragment of envelop? Mentioning Sin-e-ri-(baram)?
8813A (none) (none) (none) Seal Impressions. (A) On a label (unmarked in match box) (B) On 4 fragments of envelope. (C) On fragment of tablet (Mentioning dSukal-an-na) (D) On fragment of Envelope Servant of Dungi
8813B (none) (none) (none) Seal Impressions. (A) On a label (unmarked in match box) (B) On 4 fragments of envelope. (C) On fragment of tablet (Mentioning dSukal-an-na) (D) On fragment of Envelope Servant of Dungi
8813C (none) (none) (none) Seal Impressions. (A) On a label (unmarked in match box) (B) On 4 fragments of envelope. (C) On fragment of tablet (Mentioning dSukal-an-na) (D) On fragment of Envelope Servant of Dungi
8813D (none) (none) (none) Seal Impressions. (A) On a label (unmarked in match box) (B) On 4 fragments of envelope. (C) On fragment of tablet (Mentioning dSukal-an-na) (D) On fragment of Envelope Servant of Dungi
8814A (none) (none) (none) Tablets. A & B Rel. 30/9/82 2 fragmentary round tablets
8814B (none) (none) (none) Tablets. A & B Rel. 30/9/82 2 fragmentary round tablets
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...
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...
8818 (none) (none) (none) Tablets. Various fragments with lot 8813-8823. possibly of text? Not fully examined: in a box: not marked.
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" (?)
8820 (none) (none) (none) Tablet. 2 fragments of large tablet in fine writing.
8821 (none) (none) (none) Tablet. Small business document of antique shape.
8822 (none) (none) (none) Tablets. Fragments of very large account tablets of early date. In box: not marked
8823 (none) (none) (none) Tablets. Collection of small business tablets (in box not marked) Same about 3rd dyn. of Ur - the one in envelope is dated year 40 of Dungi - others probably older.
9361C (none) (none) (none) No catalog card exists for this object: U.9361-U.9365 were duplicated with the duplicates assigned to tablets from Season 5. They were originally part of U.7809, a large group of tablet fragments found in Area SM that were later separated and given individual numbers (Jacobsen AJA 57:128).
9363 (none) (none) (none) Stone vase, translucent white calcite, type 73. Found loose in soil. [card seems to be a replacement]

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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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