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)
17177 (none) 1931,1010.422 (none) Terracotta relief of bearded god, full face: wears horned cap, carrying a mace in each hand. (A) Fragment, broken off at hips.
16436Q (none) 1931,1010.421 (none) Terracotta figurines. Tambourine player: Type IIIa. A sub-species (1): (A) Fragment preserved from hips upwards: (B) Fragment from waist upwards; (C) fragment from knees up; from a different mould, the head being smaller; (D) fragment rom thighs up: similar to last; (E) fragment from waist up: similar to last, a much worn example; (F) fragment from waist up: sub-species 2; (G) fragment head & feet missing; (H) fragment head & legs missing; (J) fragment broken off at waist, fair impression; (K) fragment broken off at thighs, poor condition (sub-species 1344?) or type III, cf. ; (L) fragment broken away at knees; fair impression; (M) Complete except for feet, but the face damaged & chip off tambourine; (N) Fragment from waist up, poor ; (O) Similar type but from a much smaller mould; broken away at hips; (P) Fragment from waist upwards, good impression; (Q) Fragment from hips upwards, poor and badly encrusted with salt.
16435E (none) 1931,1010.420 (none) Terracotta relief. Seated goddess. Type VI.A (A) complete, but a worn impression: (B)fragment from waist upwards: (C) fragment from waist downwards; (D) fragment head only(?) Type VI.2; (E) fragment broken off at waist.
16450C (none) 1931,1010.418 (none) Terracotta Figurines. Bearded god. Type VII,4. (A) Fragment broken off at waist; (B) Fragment broken off at waist; (C) Terracotta Relief. Bearded god. Broken off at hips: very good impression. [drawing 1:1] (D) Fragment broken away below hands, similar figure, but from a smaller mould.
16437A (none) 1931,1010.417 (none) Terracotta relief Tambourine Player Type III B. A) Body broken across diagonally from rt. arm to l. thigh - actual ht. 013 Diqdiqqeh B) Fragment: broken away at waist: poor impression Diqdiqqeh C) Frag: head missing: poor impression ht 012 Diqdiqqeh D) Broken away just below the hands. ht 008 Diqdiqqeh
16463 (none) 1931,1010.415 (none) Terracotta relief. Offrant with animal. (A) Broken away at knees. [drawing 1:1]
17126A (none) 1931,1010.413 (none) Terracotta relief of two gods advancing side by side. They wear tall feather (?) crowns and short kilts. Each carries a litmus (?) in his left hand. (A) Fragment, broken away at the knees. (B)Fragment only the right-hand figure left and that broken away above knees. Type I b. B.
16449D (none) 1931,1010.412 (none) Terracotta relief. Man with flail(?): Type XI,B.4. (A) broken away at waist; (B) complete, but the figure moulded only to just below the knees; (C) broken away at knees. The eye has been added with a pellet of clay; (D) complete, behind the full length figure of the man (who is draped) is a squatting monkey; (E) Complete as moulded, but impressed only to the mans knees, head of monkey shown behind; (F) Head missing, exactly similar, but from a smaller mould; monkey rather different; (G) Fragment missing below mans knees (legs never mould); (H) Similar, the legs below the knees not moulded.
16449G (none) 1931,1010.408 (none) Terracotta relief. Man with flail(?): Type XI,B.4. (A) broken away at waist; (B) complete, but the figure moulded only to just below the knees; (C) broken away at knees. The eye has been added with a pellet of clay; (D) complete, behind the full length figure of the man (who is draped) is a squatting monkey; (E) Complete as moulded, but impressed only to the mans knees, head of monkey shown behind; (F) Head missing, exactly similar, but from a smaller mould; monkey rather different; (G) Fragment missing below mans knees (legs never mould); (H) Similar, the legs below the knees not moulded.
16480 (none) 1931,1010.407 (none) Terracotta relief. Nude goddess standing on a lion. Type XII. 1. (A) Fragment the lion complete, but only the feet of the goddess left.
16481A (none) 1931,1010.407 (none) Terracotta relief. Woman's head with disk(?) below. (A) Flat and much worn. Very coarse modeling and face peculiar perhaps Kassite?; (B) Very poor impression and complete. (C) Complete. [drawing 1:1]
17170 (none) 1931,1010.406 (none) Terracotta relief. Nude female with hands clasped below breasts. Crude grotesque type. (A) Broken only at legs. [drawing]
16487C (none) 1931,1010.405 (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.
16443A (none) 1931,1010.404 (none) Terracotta figurines. Seated Goddess; type VI,6. (A) Fragment from the clasped hands upwards; (B) Fragment from the clasped hands upwards: (C) Fragment head and shoulders only; (D) Complete except for chip out of left side (broken and mended).
16922 (none) 1931,1010.400 (none) Terracotta relief. Moulded and then worked up by hand with extra clay added; nude female figure with left hand holding object to breast, and right hand extended holding a saucer. Fragment only, broken off below waist. [drawing 1:1]
17324 (none) 1931,1010.40 (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Theriomachy. Figures roughly cut.
16466 (none) 1931,1010.395 (none) Terracotta Figurine. Relief of bearded man. (A) Broken off below knees. [drawing 1:1]
16500 (none) 1931,1010.394 (none) Terracotta relief. Seated goddess, full face, wearing horned headdress and flounced garment; on either side a crescent on a staff held by a minute human figure. (A) Fragment to below clasped hands. [drawing]
16907A (none) 1931,1010.391 (none) Terracotta relief. Horned and bearded god carrying Litnus and a bag on a stick. (A) very flat poor modelling, fragment broken at waist. [drawing 1:1]
17132 (none) 1931,1010.390 (none) Terracotta relief. A dwarf (?). Squat bow-legged figure. Wearing kilt: full front. (A) Complete but flaked.
16477 (none) 1931,1010.385 (none) Terracotta Figurine. Small seated goddess. Type VI, 10 (A) Rough impression, complete to knees only.
16472 (none) 1931,1010.383 (none) Terracotta Figurine. Bearded Man. (A) Broken off at waist. [drawing 1:1]
16024 (none) 1931,1010.37 (none) Steatite Cylinder seal. Illegible. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16287 (none) 1931,1010.353 (none) Clay roundel. On which is stamped in relief the figure of a flying bird. [drawing 1:1]
17442 (none) 1931,1010.304 (none) Gouge? Copper. Stem rectangular in section of top circular in section in middle. Hollowed end.

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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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