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)
18615 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta relief of female figure standing with hands clasped below breasts, wearing tall headdress with two large side curls, necklace round the neck, and a girdle round the waist. Full length.
18614 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta relief of female figure, hands meeting below the breasts which are bare. Hair arranged in three large bunches heavy ruff, as necklace round the neck and close-fitting garment round thighs. Broken above the knees.
18613 33-35-24 (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Of bearded male figure wearing a high headdress, with ornament falling down from it to below the shoulders on each side. Curls of hair on each side of the face, hands clasped, and wearing some kind of close-fitting dress. Broken below the waist.
18612 33-35-23 (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Of single female figure- hands clasped below the breast. wearing heavy ruffles or necklace round the neck. & a headdress of five large bunches of hair. Lines round the waist.
18611 (none) 1933,1013.183 (none) Terracotta relief. Woman squatting holding a baby to her left breast, she wears headdress of ribbed material.
18610 33-35-22 (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Of naked female figure: hands clasped below the breast, hair dressed in curls over the ears and necklace round the neck. Broken about the knees.
18569 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Nude female figure with hands clasped below breasts. (much of the surface flaked away). Feet broken off.
18568 (none) 1933,1013.185 (none) Terracotta relief. Nude female figure with hands clasped below breasts.
18567 33-35-21 (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Female figure, standing, facing right. Both hands raised in gesture of prayer. Long simple drapery, horned head dress.
18566 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta relief, male figure, beardless, standing, facing right: he wears a heavy turban, chiton and cloak. Right hand raised to shoulder, left at waist.
18565 33-35-64 (none) (none) Terracotta mould. For making a figurine of a nude standing female figure (entirely encrusted with salt)
18499 (none) (none) (none) Amulet. Shell. Fish. (the mouth broken away) [drawing 1:1]
18496 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Fragment of: upper part of two figures side by side, full face: bearded man wearing cloak, woman in heavy dress. (preserved to hips only)
18495 (none) 1933,1013.203 (none) Terracotta relief. Puzuzu head (complete)
18494 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta relief. (complete). Female figure, standing full face, with hands clasped over breast: wears a long skirted garment, double-horned head-dress.
18493 (none) 1933,1013.181 (none) Terracotta relief. (complete). Standing male figure facing right wearing kilt and cloak and carrying mace.
18456 (none) (none) (none) Duck-weight. Grey pebble. Type VI.
18455 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Lower part of hand-modelled. A female figure wearing a long dress
18454A (none) (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Bearded male figure with hair dressed in the -Assyrian- Babylonian style, wearing long dress girdled at the waist, holding a cup with both hands before his breast.
18451 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Grey steatite. Poor: 2 standing figures; between them a tree (?)
18450 33-35-177 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Grey stone. Introduction scene with 1 seated and 2 standing figures and 2 columns of inscription: the figures much erased.
18448 (none) (none) (none) Stamp seal. Limestone. Conical type. Subject: a standing bull, with crescent above.
18371 (none) (none) (none) Clay mould for making Puzuzu-head glazed beads: on the side of it an inscription.
18368 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Pink limestone. Palm tree and 2 figures.
18366 (none) 1933,1013.109 (none) Roundel of frit glazed blue. Some of the glaze present. A sunken hollow in center for the head of the attaching nail and radial lines to the circumference.

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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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