Ziggurat Terrace | ZT
| Context Title: | Ziggurat Terrace | ZT |
| Context Name (Publication): | Ziggurat Terrace |
| Context Name (Excavation): | ZT |
| Context Description: | The excavation area abbreviation ZT stands for Ziggurat Terrace. It was used for any portion of the terrace on which the ziggurat stood, though other more specific abbreviations were also used. For example, the abbreviation PDW refers to the northern side of the terrace, west of the Great Nannar Courtyard (PD), and HD refers to the southern part of the terrace. Early references using the abbreviation ZT refer specifically to excavations along the terrace retaining wall itself. Later references, however, mention specific areas on top the terrace such as the so-called 'boat shrine.' The abbreviation also refers to deep clearing of the terrace fill, particularly on the north side in later excavation seasons, though the abbreviation Zig.31 was most often used for this. Woolley uncovered large areas of the retaining wall that supported the platform known as the ziggurat terrace. He found that it was decorated with large wall cones. These cones bore an inscription of Urnamma but there is evidence that the terrace in some form existed in the Early Dynastic period as well. The Urnamma retaining wall was slanted to support the terrace, was 1.7 meters high, 34 meters wide, and was decorated with 5-meter-wide buttresses about 4 meters apart. The inscribed cones dedicate the terrace to the moon god, Nanna, and show that it was called e-temen-ni-gur, which translates as, "house, foundation platform clad in terror." (Woolley read this e-temen-ni-il). |
| Season Number: | 02: 1923-1924 |
| Season Number: | 03: 1924-1925 |
| Season Number: | 05: 1926-1927 |
| Season Number: | 10: 1931-1932 |
| Season Number: | 11: 1932-1933 |
Files
| Object | U Number | Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) | Museum Number (BM Registration Number) | Museum Number (UPM B-number) | Description (Catalog Card) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2654A | 29-174-22 | (none) | (none) | [A-B] Clay vases. Buff clay, unglazed. B fragmentary & greenish. Type CXXXII. (not p) Assocd with U.2635 A & B. | |
 | 2654B | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] Clay vases. Buff clay, unglazed. B fragmentary & greenish. Type CXXXII. (not p) Assocd with U.2635 A & B. |
| 2665 | (none) | 1935,0113.51 | (none) | Figurine fragment. (Terra-cotta) Part of leg and foot, wearing boot with toes protruding. Sketch 1/1 [drawing 1:1] | |
| 2666 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Flint arrowhead. Finely chipped. [drawing 1:1] |
| 2668 | (none) | 1927,1003.232 | (none) | Gold crescent. Thin sheet metal. [drawing] |
| 2669 | (none) | 1927,1003.267 | (none) | Brick of Silli-Adad. Fragment. Text: To nannar, his king. Si-li dAdad caretaker of Nippur, patesi of Ur, Larsa, Lagash, and the land ( )-al-lakia (the E)temen-ni-il?. Silli-Adad of Larsa predecessor of Arad Sin about BC 2168 (Th.D) H.C. |
| 2672 | (none) | 1927,1003.264 | (none) | Obsidian arrowhead (?) Roughly chipped. [drawing 1:1] |
| 2695 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay tablet. Pillow shaped. Roughly moulded, unbaked 3 finger print at the back. Dated on Cambyses king of Babylon king of the whole land. (10th year?) | |
| 2705 | (none) | (none) | (none) | [U.2705 through U.2711 were listed on the same catalog card] Clay tablets. Fragments. Persian Period -- probably Cambyses. U.2705: Comptability: barley, corn, etc. | |
| 2706 | (none) | (none) | (none) | [U.2705 through U.2711 were listed on the same catalog card] Clay tablets. Fragments. Persian Period -- probably Cambyses. U.2706: List of slaves and hirelings. |
| 2707 | (none) | (none) | (none) | [U.2705 through U.2711 were listed on the same catalog card] Clay tablets. Fragments. Persian Period -- probably Cambyses. U.2707: Account of offerings (gi-nu-u) day by day. |
| 2708 | (none) | (none) | (none) | [U.2705 through U.2711 were listed on the same catalog card] Clay tablets. Fragments. Persian Period -- probably Cambyses. U.2708: Receipt for barly |
| 2709 | (none) | (none) | (none) | [U.2705 through U.2711 were listed on the same catalog card] Clay tablets. Fragments. Persian Period -- probably Cambyses. U.2709: Fragment = ma e |
| 2710 | (none) | (none) | (none) | [U.2705 through U.2711 were listed on the same catalog card] Clay tablets. Fragments. Persian Period -- probably Cambyses. U.2710: Fragment = (Date ?) Receipt? |
| 2711 | (none) | (none) | (none) | [U.2705 through U.2711 were listed on the same catalog card] Clay tablets. Fragments. Persian Period -- probably Cambyses. U.2711: Rough clay bulla. Marks of string and a few signs pa-al the shabrau, official in charge of temple cultures. |
| 2721 | (none) | 1927,1003.235 | (none) | Shell mask. Grotesque, pierced for suspension. [drawing 1:1] |
| 2722 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Shell fish. Pierced for suspension. [drawing 1:1] |
| 2724 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay tablet. Dated: 26th of Ezen Nin-a-zu. Period of Larsa Dynasty ? Text: List of proper names (pay list?) |
| 2729 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Pottery jar. Larsa period. Wheel-made moulded base with small knob incomplete. Larsa period. Type CXXXVI =L40.a. Associated with U.2730 and U.2731 [drawing] |
| 2730 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay vase. Wheel made, withmoulded base and knob. Larsa period. Type CXXXVII =L. With U.2729 and U.2731 |
| 2731 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay jar. Wheel made with rounded base and knob. Upper part and lip missing. Larsa period. Type CXXXVII or L.40.C [drawing] |
| 2749A | (none) | (none) | (none) | (A) Diorite Door-socket.; (B) Copper pole shoe} Both same inscription: Ur Engur, king of Ur, who has bult the house of Nannar. in text: 3rd Dynasty Terrace (13) |
| 2749B | (none) | (none) | (none) | (A) Diorite Door-socket.; (B) Copper pole shoe} Both same inscription: Ur Engur, king of Ur, who has bult the house of Nannar. in text: 3rd Dynasty Terrace (13) |
| 2750 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Door-socket of Ur Engur. ?king of Ur, who has built the house of Nannar. |
| 2755A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cone of Nu-ur ilAdad. Fragment. To nannar, crown of heaven, the eldest son of Enlil, Nu ur. Il(Adad), the mighty hero, who takes care of Ur. H.C. |
| Media | Media Title | Title | Label | Author | Omeka Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ur Excavations IV; The Early Periods | Ur Excavations IV; The Early Periods | 1955 | Woolley, L. | (none) |
| Ur Excavations V: The Ziggurat and its Surroundings | Ur Excavations V: The Ziggurat and its Surroundings | 1939 | Woolley Leonard | (none) |
| Woolley's Field Note Cards | Woolley's Field Note Cards | Ur_Notes_v4_p218 | Ur_Notes_v4_p218 | (none) | |
| Woolley's Field Note Cards | Woolley's Field Note Cards | Ur_Notes_v4_p121 | Ur_Notes_v4_p121 | (none) | |
| Woolley's Field Note Cards | Woolley's Field Note Cards | Ur_Notes_v2_p219 | Ur_Notes_v2_p219 | (none) | |
| Woolley's Field Note Cards | Woolley's Field Note Cards | Ur_Notes_v2_p215 | Ur_Notes_v2_p215 | (none) | |
| Woolley's Field Note Cards | Woolley's Field Note Cards | Ur_Notes_v2_p214 | Ur_Notes_v2_p214 | (none) | |
| Woolley's Field Note Cards | Woolley's Field Note Cards | Ur_Notes_v2_p213 | Ur_Notes_v2_p213 | (none) | |
| Woolley's Field Note Cards | Woolley's Field Note Cards | Ur_Notes_v2_p212 | Ur_Notes_v2_p212 | (none) | |
| Woolley's Field Note Cards | Woolley's Field Note Cards | Ur_Notes_v2_p211 | Ur_Notes_v2_p211 | (none) | |
| Woolley's Field Note Cards | Woolley's Field Note Cards | Ur_Notes_v2_p160 | Ur_Notes_v2_p160 | (none) | |
| Field Photographs | Field Photographs | GN0099 | GN0099 | (none) | |
| Field Photographs | Field Photographs | GN0098 | GN0098 | (none) | |
| Field Photographs | Field Photographs | GN0097 | GN0097 | (none) | |
| UPM Field Photo numbers | UPM Field Photo numbers | (none) | (none) | (none) |
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Sibling Locations
AH Site | AH - City Wall | CLW - DP - Dublalmah | LL - EH Site | EH - Ehursag | HT - EM Site | EM - Enunmah | TTB | ES - ESB - FH - Giparu | KP - Great Nanna Courtyard | PD - Harbor Temple - House 34/1 - House 34/2 - House Site - Kassite Fort - KPS Site | KPS - LT - LW - Mausoleum Site | BC - Neo-Babylonian Housing | NH - NNCF - NTB - P/103 - Palace of Bel-Shalti-Nannar | AD - Pit F - Royal Cemetery | PG - SM - Temenos Wall | TW - TTC - XNCF
Child Locations
Courtyard BB - Ningal Temple | HD - PDW - Room FF - Room GG - Room SW 2 - Ziggurat
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References
Woolley, L. . (1955) Ur Excavations IV; The Early Periods, Oxford: Oxford University Press.