Context Title: Diqdiqqeh | DQ     
Context Name (Publication): Diqdiqqeh     
Context Name (Excavation): Digdiggah; DQ     
Context Name (Excavation): Railway site     
Context Description: Essentially a suburb of the ancient city, this area is located about 2 km to the northeast of the ziggurat of Ur. The precise extents of Diqdiqqeh were never defined, but Woolley referred to it as the low ground between the main railway line and the branch that went to Nasiriyeh. The train lines no longer run in the same place they did in Woolley's day, but Corona images allow us to recreate their paths. This makes the general boundaries west, south, and east somewhat known but how far it stretched north is not completely clear. From the first season workers walking across this area picked up surface finds and brought them to Woolley. At that time the location did not have a fixed name in Woolley's mind and thus first season references sometimes say 'near the railway' or 'near Munshid's water engine.' In the second season Woolley decided to investigate more systematically, but after two days of excavation he decided there was not enough remaining architecture to reward further work. Instead, he continued to allow the workers to gather finds over the next ten seasons, and many later catalog cards state "brought in: Diqdiqqeh" The finds from Diqdiqqeh indicate that the ancient suburb played a role in manufacturing and perhaps in commerce. Canals seem to have met in the area and boats may have unloaded goods here. Many figurines, tools, moulds and other crafting items are among the finds, suggesting that Diqdiqqeh may have been an industrial area away from the main habitation. The so-called Treasury of Sin-Iddinam was also excavated in this general area in season 5. In the Antiquaries Journal of January 1925, Woolley described Diqdiqqeh as follows: “A mile and a half NE. of the ziggurat, between the main railway line and the Nasiriyah branch, there is a patch of low-lying ground, occasionally cultivated, which the natives call Diqdiqqeh... a happy hunting-ground for treasure-seekers, and I took advantage of this fact to collect from the natives the scattered antiquities which they might bring to light.”     
Season Number: 01: 1922-1923      

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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)
1217 (none) 1924,0920.99 (none) Terracotta moulded relief of naked goddess, both hands holding breasts: head missing. [drawing]
1215 (none) 1935,0113.22 (none) Terracotta moulded in high relief. These greater figure of a woman wearing robe, (in style of Gudea period), hands clasped before waist. [drawing]
6939 (none) (none) B16268 Terracotta mould. Fragmentary. Broken at bottom. Seated goddess feat resting on goose and second goose standing at right hand side. Cf. terracotta figurine identical in subject with this mould though not actually produced from it. E.
16914 31-43-377 (none) (none) Terracotta Mould. For making a figurine or relief of nude female with hands clasped below breasts: small grotesque head, heavy necklace: rather like Type III, c.H.
18565 33-35-64 (none) (none) Terracotta mould. For making a figurine of a nude standing female figure (entirely encrusted with salt)
7064 (none) (none) B16269 Terracotta mould. Enthroned figure - female? Wearing flounced Kaukenes skirt. E.
18031 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta mould for moulding figurines. Relief of god and goddess side by side, each wearing a heavily flounced dress reaching to the feet; above, a crescent.
18246 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta mould for a standing figure of a draped god, with long flounced skirt. The hands before the beasts, holding a mace.
18359 (none) 1933,1013.227 (none) Terracotta mould for a small figure, grotesque, naked, full face, with bent knees, urinating.
6932 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta monkey. Fragment. Lost below waist.Elbows held against sides, hands poised on breast, right above left holding a flute to the mouth. B. [drawing 1:1]
1229 (none) 1924,0920.375 (none) Terracotta model of a bearded man holding a kid before him. The upper part of head is missing. [drawing] Photo 174
17179 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta mask. Puzuzu. Flaked and damaged by salt.
17159 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta mask. Puzuzu. (A) Complete example. [drawing 1:1]
18213 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta mask. Puzuzu type. Intact, well moulded.
16915 31-43-440 (none) (none) Terracotta Mask. Puzuzu head. [drawing 1:1]
3075 31-16-937 (none) (none) Terracotta mask. Much encrusted with salt, but apparently not grotesque.
16490 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta mask. Puzuzu head. Very flat, but wiht much lines detail. Poor condition, Type XIV, 11 [drawing 1:1]
16489 (none) 1931,1010.458 (none) Terracotta Mask. Puzuzu head, with much lines detail. Complete and in good condition. Type XIV, 10 [drawing 1:1]
12794 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta mask fragment of moulded. [drawing 1:1]
777 (none) 1923,1110.112 (none) Terracotta mask fr. of. in pinkish-drab clay. [drawing 1:1]
3078 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta horsehead. [drawing 1:1]
2829 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta horse. [drawing 1:1]
3039 31-16-984 (none) (none) Terracotta horse. Only head and neck with hands of last rider on neck.
3038 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta horse. Head only of red ware. [drawing 1:1]
3233 (none) 1927,1003.147 (none) Terracotta horse's head. Unusually large with traces of bridle or harness. Sketch. [drawing]

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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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