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)
1024	(none)	(none)	B15194	Terracotta figure. Fr. of. Moulded, and finished by hand. Head and shoulders of a duck. Reddish clay.
1019	(none)	(none)	B15193	Terracotta relief. Moulded. A grotesque male mask, hollow behind, with holes through eyes and at edge for suspension. Very bad condition, Reddish clay, once covered with white slip.
72	(none)	(none)	B15192	Clay mask. The eyes are pierced right through and filled with paste, originally blue: there is a hole at the top for suspension. [drawing 1:1] [Annotated] Phil
1023	(none)	(none)	B15190	Terracotta figure. Moulded. Fragment lower part only of seated female figure with very full flounced skirt and rosettes in relief on bodice: hands clasped below breasts. Support behind. Greenish white clay.
1014	(none)	(none)	B15189	Terracotta relief. Moulded. Seated female figure. Very elaborate headdress. Grotesque features, flounced skirt: hands on breasts: in field, crescent (above head) and dotted circles. Much damaged by salt flaking. Red clay.
1013	(none)	(none)	B15188	Terracotta relief. Red clay. Moulded. Replica (from same mould) as U.1012, but broken off a little bit below the waist.
1018	(none)	(none)	B15186	Terracotta relief. Moulded. The Moon-god and his consort(?) seated side by side with arms around eachother. Male figure bearded and wearing bonnet. Female with hair over forehead and in heavy silk curls; both with flounced skirts, Complete except for chips off left bottom corner, out in bad condition. Light clay flaking to pink.
1011	(none)	(none)	B15185	Terracotta relief. Moulded. Whitish clay. Male figure, bearded, with horned cap and vertically pleated skirt, showing left knee, cloak over shoulders: bull's ears. Left hand against body, right carries object like axe. Broken at knees.
518	(none)	(none)	B15184	Terracotta relief - Complete: greenish pottery. 2 male fig. advancing front. Each has tall feather(?) head-dress, long hair curled over ears, Semitic nose, long beard arranged in 3 rows of short curls and +long straight hair to a point: the right arm by the side, l. across body with in hand the litnus: drapery to knees, crossing legs diagonally. Behind, two legs to make the relief stand upright.
1010	(none)	(none)	B15182	Terracotta relief Moulded Upper part of male figure, bearded, wearing Semitic cloak fringed over l. shoulder, & low bonnet: carries a goat against chest. Whitish clay photo 118 Phil ht 009
1020	(none)	(none)	B15181	Terracotta relief. Moulded. Fragment of bearded male head wearing high horned cap from which descend on each side spiral curls containing a cross white the side locks of hair also end in spirals. [drawing of spirals]
1042	(none)	(none)	B14998	Terracotta figurine. fr. of. in light drab clay. Part (Head and shoulders and feet gone) of the usual nude female type with beaded triangle.
1021	(none)	(none)	B14994	Terracotta relief. Moulded. Fragment from waist upwards of female figure, nude, hands to breasts, face broken away. Whitish clay.
1016	(none)	(none)	B14993	Terracotta figure. Snowman technique. Whitish clay. Male figure with whiskers and beard (applique) and heavy bonnet, wearing chiton and mantle. Crude work: broken above knees. Whitish clay.
1005	(none)	(none)	B14986	Bowl. Egg-shell ware. Pale drab color, wheelmade. Broken but joins up. Type XCV =P.187
368A	(none)	(none)	B14964	[A] Stone mould, broken, for making clay figurines. Scene: a god seated on a stool wearing the seven-horned cap, with left arm and hand stretched out towards a standing figure in a plain robe wearing a single horn: above two crescents. (B) Second fragment; female figure standing upright (Baghdad)
1	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay Cone. Inscribed.
122	(none)	(none)	(none)	Fr. of stone tablet. Fine-grained limestone. Inscribed [drawing] [Annotated] Sumerian accounts of early date? Early
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]
409	(none)	(none)	(none)	Bronze fibula. Broken. Poor condition. 9th-5th cent BC type. [drawing 1:1]
411	(none)	(none)	(none)	Chalcedony seal. Very roughly engraved with design of two fish. [drawing 1:1]
412	(none)	(none)	(none)	Shell amulet. Human face, full front: rough cut. [drawing 1:1]
526	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay cone. Broken. Enscription of Ur-Engur concerning the canal of Ur. Duplicate of U.169. Placed in IN/No 4
770	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay statuette. Snowman technique. [drawing]
771	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay mask. Fragment of, in whitish clay. [drawing 1:1]