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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)
16497	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Nude female figure. Very coarse moulding. (A) Broken off below breasts. [drawing 1:1]
16941A	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Nude female figure, the right arm raised above head. (A) Fragment broken away below breasts; (B) Complete except for feet, but much encrusted with salt. (C) Complete, but most of the body flaked away. Different mould. (Type III, c. GG)
16941B	31-43-428	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Nude female figure, the right arm raised above head. (A) Fragment broken away below breasts; (B) Complete except for feet, but much encrusted with salt. (C) Complete, but most of the body flaked away. Different mould. (Type III, c. GG)
16941C	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Nude female figure, the right arm raised above head. (A) Fragment broken away below breasts; (B) Complete except for feet, but much encrusted with salt. (C) Complete, but most of the body flaked away. Different mould. (Type III, c. GG)
16912	31-43-384	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Nude female figure, hands apparently by sides. (A) Broken off above waist. [drawing 1:1]
17169	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Nude female figure with hands clasped below breasts. Sun moon and stars in field. (A) Fragment broken away below hands. [drawing 1:1]
17161	31-43-379	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Nude female figure with hands clasped below breasts. Peculiarly coarse and violent type. (A) Fragment broken away at waist. [drawing 1:1]
18568	(none)	1933,1013.185	(none)	Terracotta relief. Nude female figure with hands clasped below breasts.
17167	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Nude female figure with hands clasped below breasts. (A) Complete except for feet: good impression in high relief.
18064	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Nude female figure standing full face: hair in ringlets, arms akimbo(?). Fragment from waist upwards.
1011	(none)	(none)	B15185	Terracotta relief. Moulded. Whitish clay. Male figure, bearded, with horned cap and vertically pleated skirt, showing left knee, cloak over shoulders: bull's ears. Left hand against body, right carries object like axe. Broken at knees.
1022	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Moulded. Upper part of group of 2 figures, bearded male figure wearing high lunar headdress: in field, above, crescent; behind male figure a staff with crescent top.
18303	(none)	1933,1013.190	(none)	Terracotta relief. Moulded. Upper part of female figure, full face, hands clasped below breasts: wearing richly embroidered garments and with her hair elaborately dressed with two feathered (?) towers above and crimped waves below.
1018	(none)	(none)	B15186	Terracotta relief. Moulded. The Moon-god and his consort(?) seated side by side with arms around eachother. Male figure bearded and wearing bonnet. Female with hair over forehead and in heavy silk curls; both with flounced skirts, Complete except for chips off left bottom corner, out in bad condition. Light clay flaking to pink.
1014	(none)	(none)	B15189	Terracotta relief. Moulded. Seated female figure. Very elaborate headdress. Grotesque features, flounced skirt: hands on breasts: in field, crescent (above head) and dotted circles. Much damaged by salt flaking. Red clay.
18306	33-35-15	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Moulded. Light greenish drab clay. Nude female figure with hands on breasts. Head very small and birdlike: hair treated as in archaic Samian statues: hips and thighs grotesquely wide. Completely, but a poor impression from the mould.
18305	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Moulded. Light drab clay. Head of bed. Two birds facing eachother on a rocky ground, crescent on staff between them.
1020	(none)	(none)	B15181	Terracotta relief. Moulded. Fragment of bearded male head wearing high horned cap from which descend on each side spiral curls containing a cross white the side locks of hair also end in spirals. [drawing of spirals]
1021	(none)	(none)	B14994	Terracotta relief. Moulded. Fragment from waist upwards of female figure, nude, hands to breasts, face broken away. Whitish clay.
1019	(none)	(none)	B15193	Terracotta relief. Moulded. A grotesque male mask, hollow behind, with holes through eyes and at edge for suspension. Very bad condition, Reddish clay, once covered with white slip.
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]
16997	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Miniature. Standing male figure, draped, full face, with long beard, hands clasped at breast, long drapery to feet. [drawing 1:1]
16998	31-43-393	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Miniature. Nude female figure with hands clasped below breasts. (A) Complete. Type IIIC.J.
17000A	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Miniature. Draped female figure with spotted bodice and flounced skirt holding object in front of breast, sitting (possibly on a ram?) (A) broken away at the knees. [drawing] (B) broken away at waist. Similar but from a smaller mould. [drawing]
16999	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Miniature. Draped female figure with hands clasped below breasts. (A) feet missing. Type _