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)
1743 (none) (none) B15683 Terracotta relief. Female figure, full face, apparently seated but body and legs in one plane. Hands raised to breasts. Horned high headdress with spiral curls to shoulders, flounced dress with full sleeves. Surface of clay badly flaked. P.
1744 (none) (none) B15634 Terracotta relief. Green clay. Figure of goddess, full face, hands below breasts holding situla-bottles. Mural(?) crown on head above heavily frizzed hair: several necklaces but breasts bare: big cloak with rosettes on shoulders hands concealing arms: from waist, flounced and pleated skirt, rosettes by ears and alongside skirt. P.
1745 (none) (none) B15642 Terracotta relief. Light red clay. Intact. Bearded male figure advancing right. Wears plain brimmed hat, vest and long cloak fringed down front and along bottom edge (which comes to calf) hands to chest, right hand holding throw-stick(?) in background a table with offerings(?) P.
1746 (none) 1924,0920.114 (none) Terracotta relief. Fragment. Upper part of female figure, full face: curious double headdress: hair elaborately ringed: cloak over shoulders bbelow bead collar meeting above breasts, rosette on left shoulder: hands clasped below breasts.
1747 (none) (none) B15693 Terracotta figurine. Fragment. Red clay. Face only of beardless male figure very finely moulded. P.
1748 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Fragment. Whitish clay. Nude female figure, full face, broken at knees; no detail.
1749 (none) 1924,0920.138 (none) Miniature vase. Handmade. Light reddish clay. Cf. RC.188 and 231
1750 (none) (none) B15715 Miniature goblet. Pinkish white clay. Handmade. [drawing 1:1]
1751 (none) (none) B15767 Vase. Light red clay, creamy engobbage. Handmade. Ornament incised before baking, design of 5 geese in a row and a palm tree. P.
1752 (none) 1924,0920.130 (none) Rattle. Clay. Normal type, two serrated wheels.
1753 (none) 1924,0920.95 (none) Relief disk. Moulded in greenish-white clay. A grotesque face. The eyes are pierced and so are 2 holes near the place for the ears, as it is for suspension: the disk face is conves, and hollow behind.
1754 (none) (none) B15686 Clay Figurine. Hand-modeled. Female (?) figure in snowman technique: elaborate applied headdress. Arms broken, but were free; figure broken at waist, part of chest flaked off. P.
1755 (none) 1924,0920.68 (none) Figure. Moulded. Reddish clay. On a chair or throne, (broken) upright female (?) figure, full face. Hands on breasts, body apparently draped: on head, a mural (?) crown: heavy curls over shoulders.
1756 (none) 1924,0920.75 (none) Relief. Moulded clay. Grotesque male figure, full face: Bes-like head, right arm raised, left to breast, body nude, large genital organs, bowl legs. Feet together.
1757 (none) 1924,0920.69 (none) Relief. Light red clay. Moulded. Female figure seated figure right: intact from same mould as U.1375.
1758 (none) 1924,0920.84 (none) Relief. Light drab clay. Moulded. Female(?) figure seated left; long robe to feet; hgih horned (?) headdress; from the shoulders rise rays or wings represented by 3 strokes.
1759 (none) 1924,0920.67 (none) Figurine. Light red clay. Moulded. Nude female figure seated, full face, wears full-bottomed wig and bead-collar: with both hands holds infant to left breast. Roughly modeled in relief: two legs behind enable relief to stand up.
1760 (none) (none) B15723 Terracotta figurine hand-modeled. a goat [drawing 1:1] P.
1761 (none) (none) B15707 Terracotta figurine. Pig. 2 rear legs missing, incised on belly. P. 15707 [drawing 1:1]
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.
1763 (none) (none) B15682 Terracotta relief. Light greenish clay. Moulded. Female figure, full face, flounced bodice and sleeves. High horned headdress, spiral curls on shoulders: hands raised above breasts.
1764 (none) (none) B15670 Terracotta relief. Fragment. Moulded figure advancing right, long skirt, above which open skirt with fringed edge. Broken at waist.
1765 (none) (none) B15659 Relief. Fragment. Moulded clay. Lower part, from waist down, of nude female figure, full face. P.
1766 (none) 1924,0920.146 (none) Terracotta figurine. Green clay. Fragment. Head only, much damaged, of ram. [drawing 1:1]
1767 (none) 1924,0920.376 (none) Figurine. Drab clay. Female, nude, upright, feet broken. [drawing 1:1]

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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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