Diqdiqqeh | DQ
| 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 |
| Object | U Number | Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) | Museum Number (BM Registration Number) | Museum Number (UPM B-number) | Description (Catalog Card) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 1281 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay duck. Like U.1280 |
| 1282 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay duck. Like U.1280 |
| 1283 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay duck. (head missing) Like U.1280. |
| 1285 | (none) | (none) | B15591 | Stone amulet. (?) Black stone, polished. Conventionalized representation of two heads (possibly rams?) and bodied, shoulder to shoulder, the bodies adorned with incised lines - the back plain. (pierced vertically for suspension) [drawing 1:1] | |
| 1287 | (none) | (none) | B15718 | Clay Rosette. Fragment of light clay. Like U.1286, but larger. P. | |
| 1291 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay wheel. Drab clay. Like U.1290. |
| 1292 | (none) | (none) | B15709 | Clay wheel. Drab clay. Like U.1290. P. | |
| 1294 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay wheel. Red clay. Plain edge, pierced through central boss. |
| 1295 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay wheel. Red drab clay. Like U.1294. |
| 1296 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay wheel. Drab clay. (edge chipped) Like U.1294. |
| 1297 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay wheel. Drab clay. Slightly foliated edge: central boss not so prominent as U.1294. |
| 1298 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay wheel. Drab clay. Almost plain edge, central boss not so prominent as U.1294. |
| 1299 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay wheel. Red drab clay. (Like wheel-shaped rattle U.1121, but not pierced and apparently no bead inside) |
| 1300A | 52-30-167 | (none) | (none) | Clay wheel shaped rattle. Drab clay. (Broken in two.) Like U.1121. |
| 1301 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay relief of a bearded god, with 3-horned headdress, holding over his shoulders a mace in right hand and an axe in left. |
| 1303 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Upper portion of clay relief with figure similar to U.1301. |
| 1304 | (none) | (none) | B15681 | Upper part of clay relief with figure similar to preceding, but beardless, and clasping his hands instead of holding weapons. P. | |
| 1309 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay relief, broken, showing two embracing figures as in preceding number, save that here the figures are standing, and seem to carry nothing. Much worn. |
| 1311 | (none) | (none) | B15635 | Clay relief. Similar to the preceding. | |
| 1313 | (none) | (none) | B15656 | Clay relief.shewoing man in fringed dress of Gudea style, facing front, and bearing a kid or goat in his arms. P. photo 174 Diqdiqqa | |
| 1314 | (none) | (none) | B15671 | Lower part of clay relief, shewing a man wearing fringed dress of Gudea style. | |
| 1315 | (none) | (none) | B15629 | Clay relief. Upper part, showing head of a man wearing round cap and holding a small animal before him in his hands. P. | |
| 1317 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Fragment of clay figurine, roughly picked out head. wearing sort of fillet with a bunch of ribbons (?) on one side, and a flat upstanding ornament at the back. |
| 1318 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Head of clay figurine of man wearing pointed cap; the eyes applied separately |
| 1319 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay head. (Upper part only). Fragment of figurine: Man wearing pointed cap. Drab clay. |
| 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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