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)
7117	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Steatite. Blue grey. Scene of worship. Introduction of votary to Marduk? who hold a lance. Attributes: lance. 1st Bab. Dyn. B.
17737	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Steatite. Broken; seated figure; standing figure; line of inscription; scorpion. Son of Ur^d- HC 1931/5.
17325	31-43-40	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Steatite. Grey. One roughly cut human figure and second carrying an animal (?) two spears? [second carrying an animal has been crossed out on catalog card]
17327	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Steatite. Grey. 3 figures. Between two of them pater on a high vase.
17921	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Steatite. Introductory scene; 2 figures and deity standing; crescent on staff; line of inscription.
17769	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Steatite. Introductory scene; seated deity with crescent over 3 lines of inscription.
17746	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Steatite. Introductory scene; seated deity; 2 men; line of inscription. NAM-SILIM(?)-NI Jis [peaceful fate HC 1931 / 2.
17713	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Steatite. Introductory scene; standing Gilgamesh figure; seated Ningal, crescent above; another standing figure; incomplete.
17748	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Steatite. On lower end cut at an angle; running gazelles.
17739	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Steatite. Running gazelles.
7920	(none)	(none)	B16900	Cylinder seal. Steatite. Scene of worship before Nannar. Enthronoed Nannar wearing horned headdress extends right hand to greet 2 standing gods also wearing horned headdress and with left arm upraised. Attributes: crescent moon and spear? with a shaped top.
1636	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Steatite. With roughly engraved device of introduction ceremony, and inscription of 2 lines. Ur-dub: dumu Ur-d.Kal
17705	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Steatite. Woman being presented by goddess to major goddess; geese beneath, in lower half.
17708	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Steatite. Woman being presented by goddess to seated major goddess; crescent between goddesses; geese beneath.
1707	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Stone. Half broken away. With erect animal and human figure.
1420	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Terracotta. 2 human figures slaying a lion, rampant, facing right, between them. Illegible remains of a 2 line inscription.
1419	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Terracotta. Broken. Rough incised device apparently of 2 animals rampant on either side of a tree.
1421	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Terracotta. Rough incised designs of a palmette, and leaves and branches.
1422	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Terracotta. With 2 incised bars, otherwise plain. A slight depression in each end; pierced.
17678	32-40-324	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. White limestone. Eye; joined ladders. On photo: U.17679.
17868	(none)	1932,1008.173	(none)	Cylinder seal. White limestone. Introduction scene with seated deity and 2 standing figures: poor work.
17867	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. White limestone. Presentation scene with seated goddess 2 standing figures and remains of a column of inscription instantaneously defaced. Poor work.
18257	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. White limestone. Winged monster and scorpion.
6595A	(none)	1927,0527.193	(none)	Cylinder seal. White pottery. Rampant bull and tree of life. Crescent. About BC 700.
1051	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. White quartzite. Chipped. Figures.