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)
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.
1634	(none)	1924,0920.247	(none)	Baked clay cone(point broken) of Ur-Nammu, recording his digging of the canal called Nun, in honor of the Moon-god. Duplicate of U.918.
1695	(none)	1924,0920.246	(none)	Stone tablet. Fragment. Sharply convex both sides, on one of which are traces of what is perhaps a very archaic, semi-heiroglyphic inscription but mostly obliterated.
1704	(none)	1924,0920.236	(none)	Bronze stilus. [drawing 1:1]
1711	(none)	1924,0920.228	(none)	Copper wire coil. Fragment. Part of 6 coils.
1550	(none)	1924,0920.205	(none)	Roughly fashioned human hand, with fingers. Dark grey stone. [drawing 2:5]
1508	(none)	1924,0920.185	(none)	Weight (?) Black stone, with groove cut round the middle. Like U.1507, more elongated. Type III.
1502	(none)	1924,0920.184	(none)	Stone plumb bob. Black stone, polished : with hole at end and 2 at side, and remains of copper wire within. P. [drawing]
1506	(none)	1924,0920.183	(none)	Stone weight (?) Mottled mauve-black stone. Like U.1505 (smaller) Type II.
1505	(none)	1924,0920.182	(none)	Weight (?) Black stone. Blunt-end cigar-shaped. Type II. [drawing 2:5]
1278	(none)	1924,0920.177	(none)	Clay duck. Light clay. Pierced horizontally for suspension. [drawing 1:1]
1269	(none)	1924,0920.176	(none)	Clay monkey. Light 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]
1289	(none)	1924,0920.173	(none)	Clay rosette. Fragment of light clay, (lacking central boss, and loop it back)
1286	(none)	1924,0920.172	(none)	Clay rosette. Light clay. Showing traces of green glaze; pierced through clay loop at back for attaching. (17 petals in rosette.)
1110	(none)	1924,0920.153	(none)	Clay figurine. Fragment of. Head and body- arms broken off. Hand-modeled: clay: [drawing 1:1]
1120	(none)	1924,0920.147	(none)	Clay head of pig, fragment, moulded: reddish clay. [drawing 1:1]
1766	(none)	1924,0920.146	(none)	Terracotta figurine. Green clay. Fragment. Head only, much damaged, of ram. [drawing 1:1]
1446	(none)	1924,0920.145	(none)	Fragment. Greenish clay; modeled. Ram's head, broken off at neck.
1472	(none)	1924,0920.144	(none)	Strainer. In form of cup, perforated with holes c. 5mm in diameter, drab clay.
1488	(none)	1924,0920.143	(none)	Clay vase. Red clay, drab surface; handmade. (small). With small jug handles (1 broken off?). Not p. [drawing 1:1]
1491	(none)	1924,0920.142	(none)	Miniature bowl. Red clay; wheelmade(?) chipped at rim. Like U.1485, U.1486.
1736	(none)	1924,0920.141	(none)	Bowl. Greenish white clay. Same type as U.1735 but rim much chipped. Same size.
1512	(none)	1924,0920.140	(none)	Juglet. Brown clay; handmade. With incised herring-bone pattern below neck. [drawing 1:1]