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)
18170	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Frit. Over glazed = glaze now perished. Wild goat and tree.
17761	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Frit. Triangle pattern border at top; tree; eyes or fish; man with uplifted arm and goat.
6591	(none)	1927,0527.196	(none)	Cylinder seal. Gray steatite. Inscribed. Lu-dingir-ra son of Lugal-dugga. Worshipper and standing god. About BC 2000.
16398	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Green steatite. 2 standing figures engaged in salutation. Between them a palm rising from a high stand.
16179	31-43-28	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Green steatite. Presentation scene: enthroned god and two standing figures.
1053	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Greenish grey steatite. Bad condition. Figures and inscription.
17877	32-40-323	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Grey steatite. Seated deity & standing attendant. Poor cutting.
18330	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Grey steatite. (broken). 2 registers: above, presentation scene with seated god and 2 standing figures: below a line of swans.
18333	(none)	1933,1013.73	(none)	Cylinder seal. Grey steatite. 2 columns of inscription.
18331	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Grey steatite. 3 standing figures.
18332	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Grey steatite. 3 standing figures.
1046	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. grey steatite. Figures and inscription.
1047	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. grey steatite. Figures and inscription.
1050	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. grey steatite. Figures.
6867	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Grey steatite. Introductory scene. Minor god with horned headdress introduces votary to seated god. About 2300 BC. B.
18451	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Grey steatite. Poor: 2 standing figures; between them a tree (?)
1049	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. grey steatite. Small: figures and inscription.
18334	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Grey steatite. Unfinished. First sketch for lower part of standing human figure.
6853	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Grey steatite. Unpierced. Gilgamesh and Enkidu fighting rampant lion. About 2600 BC. B.
1733	(none)	(none)	B15589	Cylinder seal. grey steatite. Very scratchily engraved on one side only with design of 2 men fighting a lion. P. [drawing]
1168	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Grey steatite. With device of winged animal rampant between two supporting human figures. The animal faces right, and between left man and the animal a scorpion stands in the field. Inscribed: -Ba-da-da mar Ma-li.
18450	33-35-177	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Grey stone. Introduction scene with 1 seated and 2 standing figures and 2 columns of inscription: the figures much erased.
1734	(none)	(none)	B15590	Cylinder seal. grey stone. Broken. Upper part only of introduction scene with crescent moon in front of god. P.
18193	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Half of. Dark steatite. Standing figure of a god, and a column of inscription.
1410	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Hematite. Introduction to a god seated facing right. Inscription in 2 lines obliterated.