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)
1600	(none)	(none)	B15685	Figurine. Fragment, waist upwards only. Light clay; moulded. Female figure with 4-fold necklace and hair curled. P.
1781	(none)	(none)	B15684	Clay figurine. Drab clay, head and torso only, with mitre and braided hair. [drawing 1:1]
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.
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.
1304	(none)	(none)	B15681	Upper part of clay relief with figure similar to preceding, but beardless, and clasping his hands instead of holding weapons. P.
1599	(none)	(none)	B15680	Figurine. Light clay: moulded. Female figure in flounced skirt, standing on animal(?) with has broken away. P.
1529	(none)	(none)	B15679	Figurine. Drab clay: moulded. Female figure with necklace, partly clothed, with flat headdress. Legs broken. P.
1103	(none)	(none)	B15678	Clay Figurine. Fragment of. From waist upwards. Moulded: pinkish clay. [drawing 1:1] P
1336	(none)	(none)	B15677	Figurine. Fragment. From below waist upwards only: light yellow clay: moulded. Female figure with high headdress and necklace. P.
1335	(none)	(none)	B15676	Figurine. Fragment. Waist upwards, light drab clay: moulded. Female figure with high headdress and necklace
1611	(none)	(none)	B15675	Figurine, drab clay; modeled. Grotesque. Bes figure standing upon grotesque animal. P.
1333	(none)	(none)	B15674	Clay figurine. Drab clay: moulded. Female head in high relief, wearing band over forehead. P.
1231	(none)	(none)	B15672	Upper part of a clay figuine of a man in cone shaped cap, with staff (?) over rt. shoulder; left arm broken away, eyes applied. The "Staff" curves over shoulder into a crook shape.
1314	(none)	(none)	B15671	Lower part of clay relief, shewing a man wearing fringed dress of Gudea style.
1764	(none)	(none)	B15670	Terracotta relief. Fragment. Moulded figure advancing right, long skirt, above which open skirt with fringed edge. Broken at waist.
1234	(none)	(none)	B15669	Terracotta relief of woman, wearing skirt, carrying child, with right arm round its waist, left round its knees. P. [drawing]
1729	(none)	(none)	B15668	Terracotta figurine. Fragment of lower part, from waist to ankles, of nude female figure, normal flat and wide-hipped type. P. [drawing]
1537	(none)	(none)	B15667	Figurine. Drab clay: moulded. Female figure holding circular object like U.1374. P.
1730	(none)	(none)	B15665	Terracotta relief. Broken. Nude female figure, full face, right hand below breasts, left hand raised (cf. No.U.1346) head and feet missing. P. [drawing]
1601	(none)	(none)	B15664	Figurine. Green clay; moulded. Broken away above knees downwards. Female figure, nude, with low headdress and curls on shoulders. P.
1553	(none)	(none)	B15663	Figurine. Drab clay: moulded. Female figure, nude, with 4-strand necklace; feet broken off. P.
1780	(none)	(none)	B15662	Figurine. Red clay. Female, nude with necklace. [drawing 1:1]
1607	(none)	(none)	B15661	Figurine. Fragment, waist upwards only. Green clay; moulded. Female figure with low headdress, necklace, bracelets and belt.
1370	(none)	(none)	B15660	Figurine. Light drab clay: moulded. Nude female figure. P.
1765	(none)	(none)	B15659	Relief. Fragment. Moulded clay. Lower part, from waist down, of nude female figure, full face. P.