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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Object U Number Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) Museum Number (BM Registration Number) Museum Number (UPM B-number) Description (Catalog Card)
1570 (none) (none) (none) Figurine. Fragment, from below waist upwards only. White clay; moulded. Female figure with necklace, and with hair in curls.
1571 33-35-29 (none) (none) Clay figurine fragment of, head and shoulders; drab clay; moulded. Bearded figure with turban-like headdress, holding animal to his breast, the head of which only remains. Height c. M. 0.066
15719 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Fragment. Missing below waist. Goddess supporting a vase against breast, water flows down vase on either side. Figure wears a wig which comes down over the eras and supports large lunate earrings? Fillet(?) round forehead with 2 taenias on either side of face reaching to breast. Double string of beads(?) Conical headdress rising in tiers.
1572 (none) (none) (none) Figurine. Fragment, torso only. Greenish clay: modeled Male figure with crescent at right shoulder and bandolier over left.
15729 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Simian figure in high relief. Head missing.
1573 (none) (none) (none) Figurine. Legs and arms missing. Drab clay. modeled. Male figure, in sitting position (or riding)
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.
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.
15732 (none) 1930,1213.327 (none) Terracotta figurine. Nude female wearing voluminous wig, done in 5 big bundles of curls one on top of head and 2 on either side. 4 necklaces.
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.
15736 31-16-916 (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. God wearing high horned headdress, long beard descending to waist, long curl falling onto each shoulder, and supporting a pair of maces one at each shoulder. Missing below waist.
15738 (none) 1935,0113.77 (none) Childs rattle in shape of Terracotta bird. Roughly modeled; head and stump. [drawing 1:1]
1574 (none) (none) (none) Figurine. Fragment, torso only. Greenish clay; modeled. Rude female figure with necklace, hands supporting breasts.
15749 31-16-914 (none) (none) Terracotta plaque. 2 figures, full face - in high relief. A bearded male deity and a goddess wearing high horned headdress, earrings? Necklace consisting of 3 strings of beads, and pleated coat which leaves right shoulder exposed. Right arm of goddess rests against left shoulder of god. Fragment: head only of god, goddess missing below waist.
1575 (none) (none) (none) Mask. Fragmentary. Lower part of the face only; drab clay. Grotesque face.
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.
15754 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta plaque. Fragment. Model of decorative paneling(?). [drawing 1:1]
1576 (none) (none) (none) Ring. Plain circle, thin gold; probably part of an ornament. [drawing]
15768 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. Calcite.
1577 (none) (none) (none) Figurine. Fragment, waist upwards only. Drab clay; moulded. Female figure holding circular object, like U.1344.
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).
15783 (none) 1930,1213.41 (none) Copper adze.
1579 (none) (none) B15646 Figurine. Red clay, light surface; moulded. Female figure, seated, with flounced skirt, horned headdress, and with rays behind head. P.
15797 31-17-88 (none) (none) Amulet. White steatite(?) Double ended. Monkey and bear.
15798 (none) (none) (none) Amulet(?) Figurine grotesque.

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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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