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)
2784	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay pot. Buff ware with round base and pronounced shoulders. Type CXLVII =RC.41 (not p)
2785	(none)	(none)	(none)	Pottery vase. Drab ware with narrow neck and traces of smoke. Lip missing: round bottom. Type CXLVIII =RC.50 (not p)
2786	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay pot. Reddish ware with wide mouth and rounded base. Type CXI =RC.11 (not p)
2787	(none)	(none)	(none)	Small clay pot. Hand made of buff clay and very rough. Sketch pattern, giving height and diameters to scale 1:1 [drawing 1:1]
2788	(none)	(none)	(none)	Miniature clay vase. Hand-made of drab clay: very rough. Type as U.1419. Sketch pattern, giving height and diameters to scale 1:1. cf. RC.230. [drawing 1:1]
2789	(none)	(none)	(none)	Miniature water stoup. Of red ware, hand made with square base. Caveat drawing. Sketch pattern [drawing 1:1]
2792	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta. God and goddess fully dressed: goddess' right arm around the god, and vice versa: dress flounced. Sketch: rough 1:2. [drawing 1:2]
2795	(none)	1927,1003.21	(none)	Cone of Ur-Engur. Fragment. (Cf. 2595) To Enlil, king of the countries, his king, Ur Engur, reliant hero, king of Ur, of Sumer and Akkad, in Ur. The canal? of Ninni he has dug. H.C.
2797A	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-C] Clay pot. Yellowish drab ware with rounded base. A and B straighter-sided than type. Type XI. =RC.81 (not p)
2799	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay vase. Red and yellow ware: tabby bowl shape with rounded base. Typ CL =RC.80 (not p)
2800	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay vase. Red and yellow : tabby bowl shape with rounded bottom. Type CL =RC.80 (not p)
2803	(none)	1927,1003.246	(none)	Shell mask. Grotesque and pierced for suspension: mask flaked away. [drawing 1:1]
2804	(none)	(none)	(none)	Shell frog. Pierced for suspension. [drawing 1:1]
2813	(none)	(none)	(none)	Seal Cylinder. Broken. Diorite. III Ur Dynasty. 2 lines of inscription defaced. Goddess seated on a bird. [drawing] dNannar ( )mu? Servant of Nannar.
2822	(none)	1927,1003.251	(none)	Copper frog. Miniature. [drawing 1:1]
2823	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta fragment. Light drab ware: bearded god with club on left shoulder [drawing 1:1]
2827	(none)	(none)	(none)	Polished celt. Finely polished dark blue stone. [drawing 1:1]
2828	(none)	1927,1003.71	(none)	Polished celt. Finely polished green stone: broken. [drawing 1:1]
2829	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta horse. [drawing 1:1]
2832	(none)	(none)	(none)	Crystal head. Head of Puzu (?) with grotesque features engraved. Pierced for suspension. [drawing 1:1]
2835	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay vase. Drab clay miniature, handmade slightly broken at lip. Sketch pattern 1:1. [drawing 1:1]
2836	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay vase. Buff, round-bottomed, with pronounced shoulders. Type CLI. =RC.41. not p.
2843	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay vase. Drab ware, broad-bellied and round bottomed. Type CL. =RC.80
2848	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay pot. Handmade miniature of reddish drab ware. Sketch pattern 1:1 [drawing 1:1]
2851	(none)	1927,1003.245	(none)	Shell bird. Eagle of Lagash: head missing.