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)
1137 31-16-827 (none) (none) Clay Figurine. Fragment of bearded head and right shoulder. Moulded: light reddish clay. [drawing 1:1]
1142 (none) 1935,0113.19 (none) Clay Figurine. Fragment of. Body only, wearing necklace. Moulded.Cream clay. Longest side 37mm. [drawing 1:1]
1147 (none) (none) (none) Clay Wheel. Drab clay. [drawing 1:1]
1148 (none) 1935,0113.20 (none) Clay Figurine. Fragment of waist downwards, moulded: cream clay. lower end turned up. [drawing 1:1]
11602 (none) (none) (none) Inscribed Cylinder. Yellowish pebble. Unpierced. Roughly cut. 2 figures saluting an emblem (crescent on staff) Inscrip. Ur-Ki-sikil-la dumu A-tu-mug. HC.1928/9-1.
1162 (none) (none) (none) Clay Figurine. Fragment. Head and shoulders. Drab clay: moulded.
1168 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Grey steatite. With device of winged animal rampant between two supporting human figures. The animal faces right, and between left man and the animal a scorpion stands in the field. Inscribed: -Ba-da-da mar Ma-li.
1175 (none) (none) (none) Clay Figurine. Drab clay. Woman nursing child. Very roughly modeled (broken). [drawing 1:2]
1211 (none) (none) B15695 Terra cotta face or mask, broken away from rest of object. Resembles Greek comic mask, but may be face of Pazuzu. [drawing] P Photo 174
1212 (none) (none) (none) Lower portion of moulded terracotta relief representing a god or goddess standing on back of a lion advancing right. [drawing]
1213 (none) (none) (none) Upper part of moulded terracotta relief in light yellow clay. Female figure with headdress: right hand at waist, left hand held up. [drawing]
1214 (none) 1924,0920.110 (none) Terracotta, moulded in three-quarter round. Figure of bearded god from waist upwards, hands clasped.
1215 (none) 1935,0113.22 (none) Terracotta moulded in high relief. These greater figure of a woman wearing robe, (in style of Gudea period), hands clasped before waist. [drawing]
1216 (none) (none) B15636 Small terracotta moulded relief, the lower end bent forward. Female figure possibly goddess, with elaborate headdress, wearing long flounced robe, hands clasped at waist. [drawing]
1217 (none) 1924,0920.99 (none) Terracotta moulded relief of naked goddess, both hands holding breasts: head missing. [drawing]
1218 31-16-838 (none) (none) Part of terracotta moulded relief of naked woman holding child at her breast. The child sits upon the left hand and is supported by right. Head and fast of the relief missing.
1219 (none) (none) (none) Part of a rough terracotta figure of man in tall overhanging cap. The eyes applied by separate spots of clay. Lower body and arms missing. [drawing]
122 (none) (none) (none) Fr. of stone tablet. Fine-grained limestone. Inscribed [drawing] [Annotated] Sumerian accounts of early date? Early
1223 (none) (none) (none) Black steatite cylinder seal with device god facing right separated from worshipper and an introducing god by figures of a sitting dog (left) and scorpion (right). Over the god's raised left hand is the crescent. Inscribed: d.Sanas S.a-a
1227 (none) (none) B15648 Upper part of a large terracotta relief; a female-headed figure holds before its waist a kind of tray on which stand 2 small human (female)? Figures and 2 uncertain objects lie horizontally before them. Lower part of the relief missing. P. [drawing]
1228 (none) 1924,0920.128 (none) Clay model of a bird, with conventional leg like a vase, the neck broken off. A child's rattle wings rendered by cross-hatching on back. A hole pierced under tail. [drawing]
1229 (none) 1924,0920.375 (none) Terracotta model of a bearded man holding a kid before him. The upper part of head is missing. [drawing] Photo 174
1230 (none) (none) (none) Upper part of terracotta relief of a god, bearded, with horned headdress, holding 2 staves against his shoulders. [drawing]
1231 (none) (none) B15672 Upper part of a clay figuine of a man in cone shaped cap, with staff (?) over rt. shoulder; left arm broken away, eyes applied. The "Staff" curves over shoulder into a crook shape.
1232 (none) 1924,0920.73 (none) Terracotta relief showing 2 figures, male (right) and female (left) standing facing, each with hand upon the shoulder of the other. [drawing]

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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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