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)
9373 (none) 1948,0423.257 (none) No catalog card exists for this object: U.9366-U.9500 fell unassigned between seasons 5 and 6. They were later used for tablets found in Season 5 in area SM. They were originally part of U.7809, a large group of tablet fragments that were later separated and given individual numbers (Jacobsen AJA 57:128).
9372 (none) (none) (none) No catalog card exists for this object: U.9366-U.9500 fell unassigned between seasons 5 and 6. They were later used for tablets found in Season 5 in area SM. They were originally part of U.7809, a large group of tablet fragments that were later separated and given individual numbers (Jacobsen AJA 57:128).
9371 47-29-263 (none) (none) No catalog card exists for this object: U.9366-U.9500 fell unassigned between seasons 5 and 6. They were later used for tablets found in Season 5 in area SM. They were originally part of U.7809, a large group of tablet fragments that were later separated and given individual numbers (Jacobsen AJA 57:128).
9370 (none) (none) (none) No catalog card exists for this object: U.9366-U.9500 fell unassigned between seasons 5 and 6. They were later used for tablets found in Season 5 in area SM. They were originally part of U.7809, a large group of tablet fragments that were later separated and given individual numbers (Jacobsen AJA 57:128).
9369 (none) (none) (none) No catalog card exists for this object: U.9366-U.9500 fell unassigned between seasons 5 and 6. They were later used for tablets found in Season 5 in area SM. They were originally part of U.7809, a large group of tablet fragments that were later separated and given individual numbers (Jacobsen AJA 57:128).
9368 (none) (none) (none) No catalog card exists for this object: U.9366-U.9500 fell unassigned between seasons 5 and 6. They were later used for tablets found in Season 5 in area SM. They were originally part of U.7809, a large group of tablet fragments that were later separated and given individual numbers (Jacobsen AJA 57:128).
9367 (none) (none) (none) No catalog card exists for this object: U.9366-U.9500 fell unassigned between seasons 5 and 6. They were later used for tablets found in Season 5 in area SM. They were originally part of U.7809, a large group of tablet fragments that were later separated and given individual numbers (Jacobsen AJA 57:128).
9366 (none) 1948,0423.19 (none) No catalog card exists for this object: U.9366-U.9500 fell unassigned between seasons 5 and 6. They were later used for tablets found in Season 5 in area SM. They were originally part of U.7809, a large group of tablet fragments that were later separated and given individual numbers (Jacobsen AJA 57:128).
9364B 47-29-169 (none) (none) (none)
9364A 47-29-169 (none) (none) [Card Missing]
9363 (none) (none) (none) Stone vase, translucent white calcite, type 73. Found loose in soil. [card seems to be a replacement]
9362 47-29-316 (none) B17085 Set of silver toilet instruments, tweezers, knife, and two stilettos suspended from a silver ring. No case was found with set. [card seems to be a replacement]
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).
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.
8822 (none) (none) (none) Tablets. Fragments of very large account tablets of early date. In box: not marked
8821 (none) (none) (none) Tablet. Small business document of antique shape.
8820 (none) (none) (none) Tablet. 2 fragments of large tablet in fine writing.
8819D (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" (?)
8819B (none) (none) (none) Tablets. Four fragmentary mathematical tables: "450 times" "36 times" "1000 times" "6 times" (?)
8819A (none) (none) (none) Tablets. Four fragmentary mathematical tables: "450 times" "36 times" "1000 times" "6 times" (?)
8818 (none) (none) (none) Tablets. Various fragments with lot 8813-8823. possibly of text? Not fully examined: in a box: not marked.
8817B (none) (none) (none) Tablet fragments of god-list
8817A (none) (none) (none) Tablet fragments of god-list
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?

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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