Diqdiqqeh | DQ
| 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 |
| Object | U Number | Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) | Museum Number (BM Registration Number) | Museum Number (UPM B-number) | Description (Catalog Card) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 1649 | (none) | 1924,0920.249 | (none) | Baked clay cone, (point broken) of Ur-Nammu, recording his building of a temple to Enlil and digging a canal called En-sig-nun. Duplicate of U.1632 etc. |
| 6169A | (none) | 1927,0527.229 | (none) | Baked clay figurine. Nude female standing on a lion. Left arm bent at elbow. E. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 7610 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bangle. Bronze? One end missing. [drawing 1:1] |
| 1561 | (none) | 1924,0920.251 | (none) | Base of baked clay cone, with (originally) several narrow columns of inscription of which the first is preserved intact. Inscription of Enannatum I, governor of Lagash, referring to his work in connection with an IB-GAL of the goddess Quanna. |
| 1595 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Base of cone of Ur-Nammu, with remains of inscription fuplicate of U.872. |
| 6094 | (none) | 1927,0527.131 | (none) | Bead necklace. Including agate beads. E. |
| 17710 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bead. Limestone. Scratched pattern. [drawing 1:1] |
| 17711 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bead. Steatite. Scratched pattern. [drawing 1:1] |
| 18698 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Carnelian: chisel shaped pendant, tubes and cylinders. |
| 1643 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Very small gold ball beads, some plain, some fluted; found all together, with a few small lapis and carnelian beads. Sixty strung together, others loose. (purchased) |
| 8854 | (none) | 1948,0423.73 | (none) | Bearded god. [drawing 1:1] |
| 1524 | (none) | (none) | B15702 | Bedstead (or chair) Drab clay. 2 legs and back missing. Decorated with 6(?) panels in relief, like the quarterings of a shield. P. | |
| 1436 | (none) | (none) | B15716 | Bird. Drab clay: modeled. Bird body on pedestal, head and tail broken. Pierced through back - perhaps a rattle. P. | |
| 16792 | (none) | 1931,1010.138 | (none) | Black stone celt. Slightly convex. [drawing] |
| 16793 | 31-43-283 | (none) | (none) | Black stone celt. [drawing] |
| 17699 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Blade of mattock or hoe. Copper. Hafted; wings joined by 2 bolts. [drawing] |
| 1450 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Boat(bellum) Red clay, drab surface; broken. |
| 1449 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Boat(bellum) White high recurved prow; drab surface clay; holds in bottom. |
| 1471 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bowl of mortar. Greenish-brown veined stone. |
| 1675 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bowl or Saucer. Buff clay; wheelmade. B. Type CXVI. =RC.25 (not p) |
| 17305 | 31-43-585 | (none) | (none) | Bowl. Baked clay. Light drab. Decorated with an incised tree(?) and a serpent (?) turned round the trunk(?). Type 1DLXII. |
| 17750 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bowl. Calcareous sandstone. Cross scratched on base. [drawing] |
| 1005 | (none) | (none) | B14986 | Bowl. Egg-shell ware. Pale drab color, wheelmade. Broken but joins up. Type XCV =P.187 |
| 1672 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bowl. Greenish clay; wheelmade, small; with base ring. B. Type CXIII. =RC.29 (not p) |
| 1736 | (none) | 1924,0920.141 | (none) | Bowl. Greenish white clay. Same type as U.1735 but rim much chipped. Same size. |
| 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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