Diqdiqqeh | DQ
| 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 |
| Object | U Number | Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) | Museum Number (BM Registration Number) | Museum Number (UPM B-number) | Description (Catalog Card) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1272 | (none) | (none) | B15720 | Clay Frog. Light drab clay. Pierced for suspension. (small) P. [drawing] | |
 | 1273 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Frog. Drab clay. Pierced for suspension. [drawing 1:1] |
| 1274 | (none) | (none) | B15719 | Clay Frog. Light drab clay. With traces of green pigment (glaze?) pierced for suspension. Like U.1273. P. | |
| 12744 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Puzuzu amulet. Shell? Miniature. Normal type. [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] |
| 12753A | 30-12-541 | (none) | (none) | [A-B] Clay 'rattles' [drawing] | |
| 12753B | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] Clay 'rattles' [drawing] |
| 12755 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay relief. From a model bedstead. [drawing 1:1] |
| 12756 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay relief. Moulded nude male figure (mouth deformed) [drawing 1:1] |
| 12758 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay relief. Moulded. Fragment: upper part (from navel) of nude female tambourine-player with big wig and elaborate headdress. [drawing 1:1] |
| 1276 | (none) | 1924,0920.174 | (none) | Clay frog. Drab clay. Pierced for suspension. (broken) [drawing 1:1] |
| 12761 | 31-16-768 | (none) | (none) | Terracotta relief moulded. Nude female figure holding her breasts. Broken off below the knees. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 12762 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Terracotta relief. Fragment : hand modelled. Head of goddess between two ears of barley (?). [drawing 1:1] |
| 12763 | (none) | 1928,1010.812 | (none) | Clay figurine. Moulded. Fragment of female figure. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 1277 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay duck. Light clay. Pierced horizontally for suspension. (head missing) [drawing 1:1] |
| 1278 | (none) | 1924,0920.177 | (none) | Clay duck. Light clay. Pierced horizontally for suspension. [drawing 1:1] |
| 12782 | 31-16-772 | (none) | (none) | Terracotta figure. Moulded. Female, hands clasped, full face, seated, wearing horned cap and dress of pleated flounces to feet. | |
| 12783 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay figure. Moulded. Seated female figure, full face wearing horned crown and dress in pleated flounces to feet : in background 2 crescent moons. |
| 12788 | 31-16-773 | (none) | (none) | Terracotta figurines. Fragment. Moulded. Female figure, full face, from waist upwards; hands clasped below breasts, fillet round hair, torso nude. | |
| 12789 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Terracotta figure. Fragment of moulded. The common 'tambourine-player' type with head bent foreward and beaked nose, the dress decorated with spots in relief. Broken off at waist. |
| 1279 | (none) | (none) | B15721 | Clay duck. Like U.1278. P. | |
| 12794 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Terracotta mask fragment of moulded. [drawing 1:1] |
| 1280 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay duck. Light. Clay. Pierced vertically for suspension. [drawing 1:1] |
| 1281 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay duck. Like U.1280 |
| 1282 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay duck. Like U.1280 |
| 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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