Diqdiqqeh | DQ - UrOnline

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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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U Number	Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)	Museum Number (BM Registration Number)	Museum Number (UPM B-number)	Description (Catalog Card)
2517	(none)	1935,0113.49	(none)	Figurine. Drab clay. Nude female, head and trunk only. [drawing 1:1]
2516	(none)	(none)	(none)	Figurine. Red clay. Male with necklace, head and torso only, headdress missing. [drawing 1:1]
2515	(none)	1927,1003.156	(none)	Figurine. Buff clay. Seated goddess facing left: pleated skirt: right hand raised left hand holding bottle: headdress missing. [drawing 1:1]
2514	(none)	(none)	(none)	Figurine. Buff clay. Nude female, mitred and with necklace. Legs missing below the knee. [drawing 1:1]
2513	(none)	1935,0113.48	(none)	Figurine. Drab clay. Nude female, head and torso only. [drawing 1:1]
2512	31-16-938	(none)	(none)	Mask. Terracotta. Pierced for suspension, grotesque head, much broken. [drawing 1:1]
2511	(none)	(none)	(none)	Mask. Terracotta. Pierced for suspension, grotesque bearded head. [drawing]
2510	(none)	1927,1003.249	(none)	Finger ring. White shell (much decayed) Oblong bezel with flower rosette and traces of leaf on either side. [drawing 1:1]
2508	(none)	1927,1003.64	(none)	Spindle whorl. Black steatite. [drawing 1:1]
2507	(none)	(none)	(none)	Earring. Gold. Crescent lunar type. Heavy - hollow metal. [drawing]
2506	(none)	(none)	(none)	Earring. Gold. Crescent lunar type. Heavy - hollow metal. [drawing 1:1]
2505	(none)	(none)	(none)	Doubtful cylinder seal. greyish limestone. Unpierced fragment. A few lines of figures or signs [shown in drawing]. Period ? [drawing]
2504	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Fragment. Brown limestone. Fragment. One worshipper - one standing figure - of a god: Between them the crescent [shown in drawing] on a short support. About BC 2300
2503	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Not inscribed. greyish soapstone. Weather worn. Presentation to a seated goddess. Worshipper led by the hand. Flat crescent. Pillar-shaped altar [shown in drawing] (double). 24 x 33mm. Babylonian. About BC 2500. [drawing]
2502	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Inscribed. Glass paste. Bluish white. Broken. Fragments missing. Two lines nearly illegible: ( )-bi-a; ( ) -il. Figures worn, indistinct. Neo-Babylon - Persian Period.
2501	(none)	1927,1003.8	(none)	Inscribed tablet. Brown limestone. Fragment. Incomplete Semitic text. Obverse: 7 lines. Reverse: weather worn. Ink-drawing. Neo-Babylonian.
202	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay cone. Fragment. Inscription: recording of the building of the canal of Ur. Duplicate of 169 [probably U.169]. Placed in IN/No. 4 [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
19484	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Seated deity and 2 standing figures : a goose and a scorpion.
19482	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay cone (complete) only the stem inscribed
18863D	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-D] Bead moulds. Clay: balls of clay: on one side the impression for half of a bead and the slit for the wire on which it was made. There are four round ball beads one for a fluted cylindrical. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
18863C	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-D] Bead moulds. Clay: balls of clay: on one side the impression for half of a bead and the slit for the wire on which it was made. There are four round ball beads one for a fluted cylindrical. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
18863B	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-D] Bead moulds. Clay: balls of clay: on one side the impression for half of a bead and the slit for the wire on which it was made. There are four round ball beads one for a fluted cylindrical. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
18863A	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-D] Bead moulds. Clay: balls of clay: on one side the impression for half of a bead and the slit for the wire on which it was made. There are four round ball beads one for a fluted cylindrical. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
18725Z	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-AD ]Weights. A mixed lot of small stone weights. 30 in all.
18725Y	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-AD ]Weights. A mixed lot of small stone weights. 30 in all.