Diqdiqqeh | DQ - UrOnline

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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)
12753A	30-12-541	(none)	(none)	[A-B] Clay 'rattles' [drawing]
15041	30-12-523	(none)	(none)	Weight Diorite? (elongated date stone) inscribed: 1 shekel. Type III.
2837	29-174-9	(none)	(none)	Clay vase. Buff ware with downturned lip. Type CLII. =RC. 135 =P.114
2797B	29-174-8	(none)	(none)	[A-C] Clay pot. Yellowish drab ware with rounded base. A and B straighter-sided than type. Type XI. =RC.81 (not p)
2797C	29-174-7	(none)	(none)	[A-C] Clay Pot. Yellowish drab ware with rounded base A and B staighter-sided than type.
2970	29-174-6	(none)	(none)	Pottery jar. Buffware with round base. Type CLXXXV, =RC.83 (not p)
2845B	29-174-24	(none)	(none)	Pottery jars. Large of buff ware. Round bottomed. B. slightly different and lip broken. Type CLVII, =RC.220, [the following would seem to apply to (B) only) (not p)
2610	29-174-20	(none)	(none)	Clay watering pot. Hand moulded, with spout and holes in top. [drawing 1:1] Type as U.1892
2985	29-174-19	(none)	(none)	Water pot. Drab ware with rounded base and sieve top. Type CLXXXVIII (not p)
2887	29-174-16	(none)	(none)	Pottery vase. Drab ware with pointed base and ribbed rim. Lip broken. Type CXLIII.
2798	29-174-11	(none)	(none)	Pottery vase. Red ware with pronounced shoulders and rounded base. Type CXLIX =RC.48 (not p)
2541	29-174-10	(none)	(none)	Clay pot. Pinkish drab clay, with broken mouth. Type CXXIII.
1	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay Cone. Inscribed.
72	(none)	(none)	B15192	Clay mask. The eyes are pierced right through and filled with paste, originally blue: there is a hole at the top for suspension. [drawing 1:1] [Annotated] Phil
122	(none)	(none)	(none)	Fr. of stone tablet. Fine-grained limestone. Inscribed [drawing] [Annotated] Sumerian accounts of early date? Early
202	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay cone. Fragment. Inscription: recording of the building of the canal of Ur. Duplicate of 169 [probably U.169]. Placed in IN/No. 4 [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
368A	(none)	(none)	B14964	[A] Stone mould, broken, for making clay figurines. Scene: a god seated on a stool wearing the seven-horned cap, with left arm and hand stretched out towards a standing figure in a plain robe wearing a single horn: above two crescents. (B) Second fragment; female figure standing upright (Baghdad)
409	(none)	(none)	(none)	Bronze fibula. Broken. Poor condition. 9th-5th cent BC type. [drawing 1:1]
411	(none)	(none)	(none)	Chalcedony seal. Very roughly engraved with design of two fish. [drawing 1:1]
412	(none)	(none)	(none)	Shell amulet. Human face, full front: rough cut. [drawing 1:1]
518	(none)	(none)	B15184	Terracotta relief - Complete: greenish pottery. 2 male fig. advancing front. Each has tall feather(?) head-dress, long hair curled over ears, Semitic nose, long beard arranged in 3 rows of short curls and +long straight hair to a point: the right arm by the side, l. across body with in hand the litnus: drapery to knees, crossing legs diagonally. Behind, two legs to make the relief stand upright.
526	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay cone. Broken. Enscription of Ur-Engur concerning the canal of Ur. Duplicate of U.169. Placed in IN/No 4
770	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay statuette. Snowman technique. [drawing]
771	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay mask. Fragment of, in whitish clay. [drawing 1:1]
777	(none)	1923,1110.112	(none)	Terracotta mask fr. of. in pinkish-drab clay. [drawing 1:1]