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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)
16435A	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Seated goddess. Type VI.A (A) complete, but a worn impression: (B)fragment from waist upwards: (C) fragment from waist downwards; (D) fragment head only(?) Type VI.2; (E) fragment broken off at waist.
16435B	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Seated goddess. Type VI.A (A) complete, but a worn impression: (B)fragment from waist upwards: (C) fragment from waist downwards; (D) fragment head only(?) Type VI.2; (E) fragment broken off at waist.
16435C	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Seated goddess. Type VI.A (A) complete, but a worn impression: (B)fragment from waist upwards: (C) fragment from waist downwards; (D) fragment head only(?) Type VI.2; (E) fragment broken off at waist.
16435D	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Seated goddess. Type VI.A (A) complete, but a worn impression: (B)fragment from waist upwards: (C) fragment from waist downwards; (D) fragment head only(?) Type VI.2; (E) fragment broken off at waist.
16435E	(none)	1931,1010.420	(none)	Terracotta relief. Seated goddess. Type VI.A (A) complete, but a worn impression: (B)fragment from waist upwards: (C) fragment from waist downwards; (D) fragment head only(?) Type VI.2; (E) fragment broken off at waist.
17113	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Seated goddess. Full face: flounced draping her feet. (A) Fragment, head missing. Type VI 4
18058	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Seated goddess, full face, hands clasping an infant to her breast. Long flounced dress. Complete, but all detail concealed by salt.
16911	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Seated goddess with horned crown, draped in flounced garment, right hand to breast, left holding vase(?). (A) Complete, poor condition. [drawing 1:1]
18057	(none)	1932,1008.236	(none)	Terracotta relief. Seated goddess on throne, full face, hands clasped. She wears a flat head-dress and long flounced robe. Complete (entirely covered with salt).
18043A	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Seated goddess in shrine. Face reduced to a blob: turreted crown: big rosettes on shoulder and background. Hands before waist. (A) Fragment, from waist upwards. (B) Fragment from about the waist up.
18043B	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Seated goddess in shrine. Face reduced to a blob: turreted crown: big rosettes on shoulder and background. Hands before waist. (A) Fragment, from waist upwards. (B) Fragment from about the waist up.
16494A	(none)	1931,1010.433	(none)	Terracotta relief. Seated female figure draped, with hand to breast. Head very large and grotesque. Lightly baked red clay. [drawing 1:1] (A) complete, weak and flat impression. (B) Complete, week and flat impression, it is repeated on the back of the clay from the same mould. (C) Head missing, poor, on reverse a very faint impression from the same mould; (D) Complete, poor, narrow frame; (E) Complete, poor, narrow frame.
16494B	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Seated female figure draped, with hand to breast. Head very large and grotesque. Lightly baked red clay. [drawing 1:1] (A) complete, weak and flat impression. (B) Complete, week and flat impression, it is repeated on the back of the clay from the same mould. (C) Head missing, poor, on reverse a very faint impression from the same mould; (D) Complete, poor, narrow frame; (E) Complete, poor, narrow frame.
16494C	31-43-419	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Seated female figure draped, with hand to breast. Head very large and grotesque. Lightly baked red clay. [drawing 1:1] (A) Complete, weak and flat impression. (B) Complete, week and flat impression, it is repeated on the back of the clay from the same mould. (C) Head missing, poor, on reverse a very faint impression from the same mould; (D) Complete, poor, narrow frame; (E) Complete, poor, narrow frame.
16494D	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Seated female figure draped, with hand to breast. Head very large and grotesque. Lightly baked red clay. [drawing 1:1] (A) complete, weak and flat impression. (B) Complete, week and flat impression, it is repeated on the back of the clay from the same mould. (C) Head missing, poor, on reverse a very faint impression from the same mould; (D) Complete, poor, narrow frame; (E) Complete, poor, narrow frame.
16494E	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Seated female figure draped, with hand to breast. Head very large and grotesque. Lightly baked red clay. [drawing 1:1] (A) complete, weak and flat impression. (B) Complete, week and flat impression, it is repeated on the back of the clay from the same mould. (C) Head missing, poor, on reverse a very faint impression from the same mould; (D) Complete, poor, narrow frame; (E) Complete, poor, narrow frame.
18028	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Seated bearded god embracing nude goddess. Crescent above. Poor condition. Complete.
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.
1762	(none)	(none)	B15650	Terracotta relief. Red clay. Moulded. Bearded figure, full face. On head, high horned cap (chipped), long curls on shoulder, bull's ears: dress presumably sheepskin queerly treated with lobes in relief: right hand holds mace to shoulder left hand apparently an axe of this type. Broken at waist.
1012	(none)	1923,1110.99	(none)	Terracotta relief. Red clay. Moulded, in a rectangular frame (shrine?) a female figure wearing turreted headdress, heavy cloak with big rosettes on shoulders, flounced skirt. In each hand a bottle (?): 4 large rosettes in field above shoulders. Features pinched and not recognizable. Broken off at knees.
18024	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Puzuzu head.
18025	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Puzuzu head.
18026	32-40-38	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Puzuzu head.
18495	(none)	1933,1013.203	(none)	Terracotta relief. Puzuzu head (complete)
16968	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. One of a large series all similar in type but differing in treatment: said to have been found in the flat ground beyond Diqdiqqeh, but their genuineness doubtful. [drawing 1:1]