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)
1748 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Fragment. Whitish clay. Nude female figure, full face, broken at knees; no detail.
1747 (none) (none) B15693 Terracotta figurine. Fragment. Red clay. Face only of beardless male figure very finely moulded. P.
1731 (none) 1924,0920.121 (none) Terracotta figurine. Fragment. On a sort of tray, two miniature couchant lions. Cf. U.1227, which is certainly of the same subject.
1732 (none) (none) B15691 Terracotta figurine. Fragment. Lower part only, from waist of seated female(?) figure; no details of dress, etc, except that the skirt was flounced. P.
7674 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Fragment. Head of goddess wearing high horned headdress. Concave back.
18161 (none) 1932,1008.252 (none) Terracotta figurine. Fragment. Head and upper part of body of a bearded male figure, full face, with full heavy features and square cut beard.
1729 (none) (none) B15668 Terracotta figurine. Fragment of lower part, from waist to ankles, of nude female figure, normal flat and wide-hipped type. P. [drawing]
2935 (none) 1927,1003.151 (none) Terracotta figurine. Female: primitive snowman technique. [drawing 1:2]
2938A (none) (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Female: head surrounded by moons and stars and vase with double stream in left hand. 2nd vase at foor: right hand holding breast: seated on peacock. Cf. U.978 A+B together do not form a whole (Limit of A base line, of B dotted line). Sketch roughly 1:2 [drawing 1:2]
2938B (none) (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Female: head surrounded by moons and stars and vase with double stream in left hand. 2nd vase at foor: right hand holding breast: seated on peacock. Cf. U.978 A+B together do not form a whole (Limit of A base line, of B dotted line). Sketch roughly 1:2 [drawing 1:2]
3119 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Female, nude but for necklets, holding tambourine from fine mould. [drawing 1:1]
2774 (none) 1927,1003.176 (none) Terracotta figurine. Female, kneeling with hands on breast: head missing : reddish ware. [drawing 1:1]
6596B (none) (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Female, heavily draped in garment with long folds running down from below neck at which the dress has a V shape. Thick curled hair flowing down onto shoulders. Hands clasped below breast. Fragmentary below waist. B.
6941 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Female, full face with high headdress and heavy necklace of rounded beads. Round beads also run diagonally body from shoulder to waist. Hands clasped below breast. [drawing 1:1]
3014 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Female, fragmentary, with coiled plaits: hands raised towards chin. [drawing 1:1]
3153 (none) 1927,1003.168 (none) Terracotta figurine. Female, clothed, in profile. [drawing 1:1]
3277 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Female with elaborately dressed hair and flounced robe. [drawing 1:1]
3152 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Female squatting and suckling child. Same as U.687.
7071 (none) 1927,0527.226 (none) Terracotta figurine. Female in Kaunakees dress, right shoulder exposed holding suckling child against breast. Feet of female lost. E. [drawing 1:1]
18045 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Female figure, young, nude, standing full face with the arms by the sides. Complete, but face damaged.
18063 32-40-23 (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Female figure, nude, standing full face and holding a tambourine before the breasts. Fragment from waist upwards.
18080 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Female figure, full face, holding object to breasts: big earrings and necklaces, body nude. Moulded, but finished with snowman technique: very crude. Fragment, from waist upward.
18061 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Female figure, full face, apparently seated: draped: hands held one above the other: hair in 2 simple heavy locks. Fragment: From waist upwards.
18069 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Female figure standing full face, nude but with broad necklaces; hands clasped, exaggerated coiled earring: grotesque type. Broken away below hands.
18068 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Female figure standing full face, hands clasped,: draped, and wearing a low cap. Fragment, from below hands upwards.

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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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