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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)
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.
1742	(none)	1924,0920.64	(none)	Terracotta relief. Green clay. Female figure, full face, standing with hands raised to breast. Triple feather crown, bead (?) girdle. By the side of the figure traces of rope-pattern, possibly edge of a veil (or shrine) behind the goddess.
18034	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Goddess, standing full face: curled hair, long flounced dress, hands clasped: the figure very long and slender. Complete.
18037A	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Goddess, standing (?) full face, hands raised and held apart before breast: high crown and elaborate hair and flounced dress. (A) Fragment, from the waist upwards. (B) Fragment from the waist upwards. (C) Exactly similar but from a smaller mould. Complete.
18037B	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Goddess, standing (?) full face, hands raised and held apart before breast: high crown and elaborate hair and flounced dress. (A) Fragment, from the waist upwards. (B) Fragment from the waist upwards. (C) Exactly similar but from a smaller mould. Complete.
18037C	(none)	1932,1008.240	(none)	Terracotta relief. Goddess, standing (?) full face, hands raised and held apart before breast: high crown and elaborate hair and flounced dress. (A) Fragment, from the waist upwards. (B) Fragment from the waist upwards. (C) Exactly similar but from a smaller mould. Complete.
16484	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Goddess(?) or woman, wearing elaborate hat and long plain dress, facing right in attitude of adoration. (A) Moulded only to bottom of skirt; complete good impression. [drawing 1:1]
16931A	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Goddess with horned hat and long tresses, draped, hands raised with fingers meeting at neck. (A) Fragment broken off at breast. (B) Fragment broken off at waist. (Type IV, b.1.)
16931B	31-43-408	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Goddess with horned hat and long tresses, draped, hands raised with fingers meeting at neck. (A) Fragment broken off at breast. (B) Fragment broken off at waist. (Type IV, b.1.)
16943A	31-43-410	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Goddess standing with hands to breast and wearing long flounced dress. Figure grotesquely elongated. (A) Head and feet missing. [drawing]
18041	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Goddess standing and facing right, with hands raised before face. Slender figure, long plain dress. Complete.
17131	31-43-426	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Goddess seated on an animal: in front of her a grotesque male (?) figure: between them, they hold a staff surmounted by a bird. Very crude work. (A) Complete except for head of second figure. Poor impression. [drawing 1:1]
16916	31-43-418	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Goddess or woman. Nude(?) with hands clasped below breast : on background, crescent moons and stars. A) fragment broken away at waist. [drawing 1:1]
17180	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Goddess in square shrine = full face: hands held up to breasts: elaborate dress and turetted hat: big rosettes in field. (A) Fragment, broken away below the hands.
16465	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Goddess enthroned. poor. [drawing 1:1]
16474	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. God, full face, with curls and beard. (A) Broken off at waist, but a good impression.
17130	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. God and goddess (?) advancing full front. They seem to embrace. The god wears a long kaukenes garment: dotted circles on a field. (A) Fragment, most of the goddess figure and the god's figure below the knees missing.
18617	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Full length male figure wearing a round hat, a long bead and hands clasped over the chest. He has a long gown reaching to the ankles. Poor condition.
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.
1764	(none)	(none)	B15670	Terracotta relief. Fragment. Moulded figure advancing right, long skirt, above which open skirt with fringed edge. Broken at waist.
17105	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Fragment. Goddess (?) in long drapers, seated on a sheep (?) facing the tail. [drawing 1:1]
18042	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Fragment. Female figure, nude, full face - only head to breasts present. Very crude and rough.
1026	(none)	(none)	B15200	Terracotta relief. Fragment. Part of a circular model table(?) on legs, of which one only remains; on top a stamped design of a bird, palm branches, a round object (fruit?) and an oblong like rectangular cartouche. Whitish clay.
16906	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Fragment. A lion(?). [drawing 1:1]
18496	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Fragment of: upper part of two figures side by side, full face: bearded man wearing cloak, woman in heavy dress. (preserved to hips only)