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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1246 | (none) | 1935,0113.24 | (none) | Fragment terracotta relief, showing right shoulder and arm of human figure holding staff surmounted by a bird. [drawing] | |
| 1248 | (none) | 1935,0113.25 | (none) | Fragment of terracotta relief with figure of a duck, as in preceding number. | |
| 1249 | (none) | 1935,0113.26 | (none) | Fragment of a terracotta plaque with fragment of a border and part of a relief, apparently of vegetable pattern. [drawing] | |
| 1250 | (none) | 1935,0113.27 | (none) | Lower portion of terracotta relief of seated god or goddess, wearing flounced skirt, which is all that remains of the object. | |
| 1251 | (none) | 1935,0113.28 | (none) | Fragment from the middle terra-cotta relief of draped goddess with hands holding her breasts. [drawing] | |
| 1253 | 31-16-995 | (none) | (none) | Fragment of a terrracotta model. Apparently part of the reins from a toy similar to the preceding. | |
 | 1254 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Fragment terra-cotta figurine representing middle part of naked woman: remainder broken away. |
| 1256 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay model of wheel; usual type; red ware, the circumferential coggings worn away. |
| 1257 | (none) | 1924,0920.124 | (none) | Clay model of wheel; light buff color. | |
| 1258 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Portion of clay model of a wheel; light buff. |
| 1259 | (none) | 1924,0920.123 | (none) | Clay model of a bellum: owl end broken | |
| 1260 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay model of a bellum, broken at one end. |
| 1264 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Fragment from edge of a bowl in a black porous stone, with remains of an archaic inscription under lip. |
| 1265 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal the device mostly obliterated, but containing 3 lines inscription. Sa-ku-gi; mar Lugal-ka-gi; amel (?) DIM. |
| 1266 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal; two confronted human figures slaying lion which rears between them facing left. Inscription. Emuk(GIR)-i-li-sa(!) mar Urdnin-? PA KU(?) LU(?) |
| 1269 | (none) | 1924,0920.176 | (none) | Clay monkey. Light drab clay. Pierced for suspension. [drawing 1:1] |
| 1271 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay tortoise. Light drab clay. Pierced for suspension. Under side plain. [drawing 1:1] |
| 1273 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Frog. Drab clay. Pierced for suspension. [drawing 1:1] |
| 1275 | (none) | 1924,0920.175 | (none) | Clay Frog. Light drab clay (with traces of green glaze underneath) pierced for suspension. Like U.1273 [drawing 1:1] |
| 1276 | (none) | 1924,0920.174 | (none) | Clay frog. Drab clay. Pierced for suspension. (broken) [drawing 1:1] |
| 1277 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay duck. Light clay. Pierced horizontally for suspension. (head missing) [drawing 1:1] |
| 1278 | (none) | 1924,0920.177 | (none) | Clay duck. Light clay. Pierced horizontally for suspension. [drawing 1:1] |
| 1280 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay duck. Light. Clay. Pierced vertically for suspension. [drawing 1:1] |
| 1281 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay duck. Like U.1280 |
| 1282 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay duck. Like U.1280 |
| 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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