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)
3283 (none) 1927,1003.165 (none) Terracotta figurine. Bearded god with prominent breasts: modelling fine. [drawing 1:1]
2865A (none) 1927,1003.164 (none) Terracotta figurine. Nude Ishtar standing upon lion. Broken in two, much defaced. [drawing 1:1]
3076 (none) 1927,1003.163 (none) Terracotta figurine. Nude female with elaborately dressed hair, head and torso only. [drawing 1:1]
2868 (none) 1927,1003.162 (none) Terracotta figurine. Clothed woman in profile and suckling child. [drawing 1:1]
2914 (none) 1927,1003.161 (none) Terracotta figurine. One of pair with flounced dress: left hand raised, right hand holding cup. [drawing 1:1]
3040 (none) 1927,1003.160 (none) Terracotta figurine. Pinkish ware. Female in flounced dress with hands clasped : much encrusted by salt. [drawing 1:1]
3056 (none) 1927,1003.159 (none) Terracotta plaque. Showing goddess seated on bull, holding bird in left hand, crescent on pole at back and nude bull-headed man facing her. [drawing 1:1]
3258 (none) 1927,1003.158 (none) Terracotta figurine. Small female figure of same type as U.3015, seated on chair. Legs broken off below knee. Sketch slightly small than 1:1 [drawing]
2904 (none) 1927,1003.157 (none) Terracotta figurine. Drab: seated female with flounced dress. Horned headdress; two sunflowers and moon overhead. [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]
2989 (none) 1927,1003.155 (none) Terracotta figurine. Seated goddess with flounced dress, holding two trees in hands and having two birds at her feet. Sketch slightly more than 1:2 [drawing]
3259 (none) 1927,1003.154 (none) Terracotta figurine. Two figures, both female: the taller holds a cup in the left hand, and stick in the right (?)/ [drawing 1:1]
2990 (none) 1927,1003.153 (none) Terracotta. Two figures, one larger than other holding one vase. Both stand upon beasts. [drawing 1:1]
2657 (none) 1927,1003.152 (none) Terracotta figurine. Primitive female: arms outstretched: buttocks pronounced : snowman technique. [drawing 1:1]
2935 (none) 1927,1003.151 (none) Terracotta figurine. Female: primitive snowman technique. [drawing 1:2]
3280 (none) 1927,1003.149 (none) Terracotta object. Bellows shape, pierced with holes. [drawing 1:1]
3233 (none) 1927,1003.147 (none) Terracotta horse's head. Unusually large with traces of bridle or harness. Sketch. [drawing]
2939B (none) 1927,1003.144 (none) Terracotta pig. Head missing. (B) Has snout and eye. Sketch less than 1:1 [drawing]
2916 (none) 1927,1003.143 (none) Terracotta hen. Head missing. [drawing 1:1]
2967 (none) 1927,1003.141 (none) Vase on stand. Drab ware, roughly handmade. Base ornamented with affixed clay discs. Sketch pattern 1:1. [drawing 1:1]
2966 (none) 1927,1003.140 (none) Clay vase. Rough handmade miniature of greenish drab ware with incised decoration. Sketch pattern 1:2. [drawing 1:2]
3128 (none) 1927,1003.138 (none) Clay pot. Head made of drab ware with scalloped shoulders. Sketch pattern 1:2. Type as U.1036. [drawing 1:2]
2633 (none) 1927,1003.137 (none) Clay pot. Pinkish drab ware. Handmade. Type CXXVM. (not p)
2783 (none) 1927,1003.136 (none) Pottery vase. Red ware with slight 'neck'. Type CXLVI. (not p)
2723 (none) 1927,1003.119 (none) Clay pot. Miniature, of wheel-made buff ware. Lip broken. Type CXXXV = RC.131 =P108b

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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)
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