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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)
16463	(none)	1931,1010.415	(none)	Terracotta relief. Offrant with animal. (A) Broken away at knees. [drawing 1:1]
16109B	(none)	1931,1010.424	(none)	Terracotta Relief. Nude woman with hands clasped over breast, hair-in close- set parallel waves. Good modelling. Type III c.z. (A) Fragment broken away at hips: good impression; (B) Fragment broken away at hips good impression; (C) Fragment almost identical but from a slightly larger mould, fragment broken off at waist.
16109C	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta Relief. Nude woman with hands clasped over breast, hair-in close- set parallel waves. Good modelling. Type III c.z. (A) Fragment broken away at hips: good impression; (B) Fragment broken away at hips good impression; (C) Fragment almost identical but from a slightly larger mould, fragment broken off at waist.
16940	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Nude woman with hands clasped across breast. (1)[A] broken away at knees. [drawing 1:1]
16485	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Nude female, with snood and necklace. Hands clasped on breast. Bold high modelling. (A) Fragment broken off at waist, face damaged. [drawing]
16964	31-43-403	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Nude female with hands to breasts. Grotesque. (A) broken away at thighs. [drawing 1:1]
16963	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Nude female with hands clasped below breasts; slender and well-modeled type. (A) Head missing. [drawing 1:1]
16953A	31-43-387	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Nude female figure. With hands clasped below breasts; lines of dots on background. (A) Complete, but in very bad condition, and hidden by salt.
16496	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Nude female figure with hands to breast. Tall feathered or turreted headdress; girdle, at each side a bird(?) and a staff. (A) Broken off at thighs, poor. [drawing 1:1]
16951	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Nude female figure with hands clasped below breast. (A) Broken away at hips. [drawing 1:1]
1015	(none)	1923,1110.103	(none)	Terracotta relief. Moulded. Upper part of bearded male figure wearing tall horned cap and carrying against his shoulders two objects like axes (?) (Osirid style of U.1007, which is of a different mould). Broken below elbows and surface much destroyed. Greenish white clay.
1017	(none)	1923,1110.108	(none)	Terracotta relief. Moulded. Upper part of bearded male figure in profile head uncovered, with heavy hair: cloak over left shoulder; right hand carries over shoulder a flail. Whitish clay.
16476A	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. In very high relief. Type III C.A.. (A) Nude female figure with hands clasped over breast; head missing; probably same type as III, C.AA. Well modeled and designed in bright red clay; (B) Probably Torso only; fine bold modelling. AH. from filling of house of the latest period just SE of the Khan (Paternoster Row So. 15).
16476B	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. In very high relief. Type III C.A.. (A) Nude female figure with hands clasped over breast; head missing; probably same type as III, C.AA. Well modeled and designed in bright red clay; (B) Probably Torso only; fine bold modelling. AH. from filling of house of the latest period just SE of the Khan (Paternoster Row So. 15).
16486B	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Horned and bearded god (with no side curls). (A)[B] head only. [drawing 1:1]
16949	31-43-417	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Goddess with Flounced dress and turret crown. (A) broken away at knees. Very bad condition, (All hidden by salt). [drawing]
16471	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Goddess Bau enthroned. (A) Poor flaccid impression, but complete except for feet. [drawing 1:1]
16492	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Female(?) with kitu? and flounced skirt. (A) broken off above knees, rubbed and poor specimen. [drawing]
16948	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Female figure in flounced dress. (A) Fragment broken away about at the knees; poor cast. Type IV,b.2
16491A	31-43-396	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Draped female figure standing with hands to breast. Good design, well modeled. (A) complete, good condition. [drawing 1:1]
16950	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Bull-footed demon holding a staff. (A) complete; poor cast. [drawing 1:1]
16467	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Bearded man with bird. (A) Broken off at waist. [drawing 1:1]
16493	(none)	1931,1010.452	(none)	Terracotta relief. Bearded man draped, carrying a kid. (A) complete. Moderate impression. [drawing 1:1]
16470	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Bearded horned god. (A) Broken off at waist, a poor flaccid impression. [drawing]
16487A	31-43-455	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Bearded god, draped. Standing on an animal(?) [drawing 1:1] (A) Animal missing poor worn impression. (B) Similar figure, but from a larger mould, broken off at thighs; (C) Similar, broken away at knees, poor.