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      

Objects: Diqdiqqeh | DQ Export: JSON - XML - CSV

Object U Number Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) Museum Number (BM Registration Number) Museum Number (UPM B-number) Description (Catalog Card)
2733 (none) 1948,0423.9 (none) Clay tablet. Contract. Dated: When the great wall was built Gungunu 21 or 23 ?Month Su-es-da. Text: Sale of 18 date palm trees in the plantation of Ur-dingir-ra for 4 shekels? oath in the name of the king.
12995 (none) 1948,0423.87 (none) Tablet. Business document. Ur III (broken).
12982 (none) 1948,0423.84 (none) Tablet. Case tablet. Eimil-Sin 7 contract about silver. HC 536.
8854 (none) 1948,0423.73 (none) Bearded god. [drawing 1:1]
12994 (none) 1948,0423.432 (none) Tablet. Ur III. Contract.
12575 (none) 1948,0423.285 (none) Tablet. Accounts (barley). HC 535
12993 (none) 1948,0423.173 (none) Tablet. Ur III. Busines document fragment.
12983 (none) 1948,0423.172 (none) Tablet. Fragment. Accounts (Ur III). HC 539.
18083 (none) 1935,0113.91 (none) Terracotta figurine. Hand modelled. Miniature human figure with head, rudimentary arms and shapeless trunk. Left arm missing.
18023 (none) 1935,0113.87 (none) Terracotta relief. Bearded man, in long drapery, hands clasped. Fragment, below the knees missing.
18005B (none) 1935,0113.86 (none) Terracotta figurine. Man advancing right and carrying a flail over his right shoulder. (A) Complete. (B) Head and shoulders only.
18062 (none) 1935,0113.837 (none) Terracotta figurine, ? Nude, standing full face and holding tambourine before breasts. Heavy coiled earrings. Fragment from waist upwards.
1119 (none) 1935,0113.821 (none) Clay Box-lid.. About 1/3 broken off. Adorned with snakes in relief: snake-headed and boss handle. Reddish clay. [drawing 1:5]
15753 (none) 1935,0113.82 (none) Terracotta Head. Female wearing a bandeau, hair represented by fine wavy lines. Missing below neck - long locks of hair flowing onto shoulders.
15738 (none) 1935,0113.77 (none) Childs rattle in shape of Terracotta bird. Roughly modeled; head and stump. [drawing 1:1]
15735 (none) 1935,0113.76 (none) Terracotta figurine. Bearded deity wearing horned headdress, long lock of hair ending in a curl over the shoulder, beard descending to waist , and supporting a mace against each shoulder. Missing below waist.
15731 (none) 1935,0113.75 (none) Terracotta figurine. Upper portion of female wearing a voluminous wig covering both sides of face as well as head.
15730 (none) 1935,0113.74 (none) Terracotta figurine. Full face in low relief of figure with zoomorphic and anthropomorphic body. Forehead missing & missing below waist. Grotesque head with a long lock of hair falling on each shoulder curled at the end, centipede like appearance. Pincer like hands tips of which touch one another on the breast. Figure wears two necklaces and flannel kaukanes coat sleeves descending only to the elbow.
3162E (none) 1935,0113.55 (none) Terracotta chariot wheels.
2693 (none) 1935,0113.53 (none) Clay dog (?). Fragmentary, in act of barking: legs and tail missing.
2692 (none) 1935,0113.52 (none) Terracotta figurine. Buff ware: female, mitred, with forearms raised to shoulders: head and trunk only. [drawing 1:1]
2517 (none) 1935,0113.49 (none) Figurine. Drab clay. Nude female, head and trunk only. [drawing 1:1]
2513 (none) 1935,0113.48 (none) Figurine. Drab clay. Nude female, head and torso only. [drawing 1:1]
1626 (none) 1935,0113.46 (none) Figurine. Fragment, bust only. Light drab clay; moulded. Male(?) figure with right shoulder base and cloak thrown over left.
1578 (none) 1935,0113.45 (none) Clay figurine. fragment of, bust only; drab clay; moulded. Female figure with necklace, high headdress, & curled locks of hair; (chipped and weathered).
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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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