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)
1335	(none)	(none)	B15676	Figurine. Fragment. Waist upwards, light drab clay: moulded. Female figure with high headdress and necklace
1334	(none)	(none)	(none)	Figurine. Fragment. Yellowish clay: moulded. Female head in high relief, wearing band over forehead.
1531	(none)	(none)	B15655	Figurine. Fragment., below waist upwards only: drab clay: moulded. Female figure, same type as U.1530. P.
17758	32-40-305	(none)	(none)	Figurine. Frit, formerly glazed. Duck. [drawing 1:1]
1552	(none)	1924,0920.60	(none)	Figurine. Green clay: moulded. Bearded figure in long robe, with low headdress and collar.
1601	(none)	(none)	B15664	Figurine. Green clay; moulded. Broken away above knees downwards. Female figure, nude, with low headdress and curls on shoulders. P.
1526	(none)	(none)	(none)	Figurine. Greenish clay: moulded. 2 seated figures, female, clothed, of very unequal size; weathered.
1375	(none)	(none)	B15633	Figurine. Greenish grey clay: moulded. Female(?) figure seated on chair, (legs in profile) wearing horned headdress and flounced skirt. P.
1363	(none)	1935,0113.35	(none)	Figurine. Head and feet broken off. Drab clay: moulded. Nude female figure.
1364	(none)	(none)	(none)	Figurine. Head broken off. Reddish clay: moulded. Female(?) figure in elaborately flounced skirt.
1573	(none)	(none)	(none)	Figurine. Legs and arms missing. Drab clay. modeled. Male figure, in sitting position (or riding)
1599	(none)	(none)	B15680	Figurine. Light clay: moulded. Female figure in flounced skirt, standing on animal(?) with has broken away. P.
1331	(none)	1924,0920.74	(none)	Figurine. Light drab clay. Moulded. Nude figure, bearded, head and body facing, legs in profile. The god Ea(?) holding jar from which flow two streams.
1373	(none)	(none)	(none)	Figurine. Light drab clay: moulded. Female(?) figure (much weathered).
1370	(none)	(none)	B15660	Figurine. Light drab clay: moulded. Nude female figure. P.
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.
1346	(none)	1924,0920.85	(none)	Figurine. Light red clay: moulded. Broken away below knees. Female figure, nude, with left hand raised.
1579	(none)	(none)	B15646	Figurine. Red clay, light surface; moulded. Female figure, seated, with flounced skirt, horned headdress, and with rays behind head. P.
1770	(none)	1924,0920.380	(none)	Figurine. Red clay. Female, head and trunk only, holding tamborine. [drawing 1:1]
1780	(none)	(none)	B15662	Figurine. Red clay. Female, nude with necklace. [drawing 1:1]
1768	(none)	1924,0920.373	(none)	Figurine. Red clay. Female, robed, arms raised, feet, broken, worn. [drawing 1:1]
1776	(none)	1924,0920.369	(none)	Figurine. Red clay. Flounced robes, with hands raised and carrying pots. [drawing 1:1]
1769	(none)	1924,0920.378	(none)	Figurine. Red clay. Head and shoulders only. [drawing 1:1]
2516	(none)	(none)	(none)	Figurine. Red clay. Male with necklace, head and torso only, headdress missing. [drawing 1:1]
1785	(none)	(none)	B15649	Figurine. Red clay. Male. Head and trunk only. Cracks in head and beard. [drawing 1:1]