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)
7098	(none)	(none)	(none)	Puzuzu. Head of white shell. B. [drawing 1:1]
7107	(none)	(none)	B16255	Terracotta Figurine. Naked female, hands clasped against waist. Common type. [drawing 1:1] E
7108	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta figurine. Seated female, grotesque figure, abnormally large hands held against breast, hair done up in thick bunches at side. Heavy necklaces. Pellet eyes. [drawing 1:1]
7109	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta plaque. Male and female, full face standing side by side - probably god and goddess. Both clothed in flounced skirts, female has right shoulder exposed. Male figure is bearded and wears close fitting cap on head, against right shoulder a flail. Female wears the high horned headdress of a goddess and a heavy necklace. Both are standing on a narrow band in relief, which may represent the threshold. E. [drawing 1:1]
7110B	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta figurine. God. Full face down to waist. Below in profile. Bearded god with cows' ears, wearing high horned headdress. Left hand held horizontally against waist, right hand at side. God wears open skirt, right leg covered; left leg exposed. B. [drawing 1:1]
7111	47-29-159	(none)	B16266	Terracotta plaque. Fragmentary. Bearded god? Seated on a bull left arm bent at elbow and holding an object right hand held against breast. E. [drawing 1:1]
7116	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Shell. Yellowish. Linear decoration. 2 registers. Before 3000 BC. B.
7117	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Steatite. Blue grey. Scene of worship. Introduction of votary to Marduk? who hold a lance. Attributes: lance. 1st Bab. Dyn. B.
7118	(none)	(none)	B16288	Cylinder seal. White shell. 2 registers. Upper register. Spend eagle between 2 gazelles - standing club. Below. Net. Before 3000 BC. E.
7119	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Pink steatite. Unpierced: Babaa damkar, son of Buzua. IIIrd Dyn. of Larsa. B.
7120	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. White shell. Linear decoration. Before 3000
7121	(none)	(none)	B16289	Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Palm branch between 2 worshippers, who hold hand upraised. Attributes: Crescent moon, Rampant Lion. 2400 BC. E.
7122	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. 2 worshippers and palm branch rising out of vase. Inscribed. 2300 BC. B.
7125	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. White shell. 2 registers. Procession of figs towards seated goddess. Below. 2 crossed animals. On either side a lion. B. Before 3000 BC.
7126	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Crystal. Grey. Linear markings. B.
7127	(none)	(none)	B16295	Cylinder seal. White shell. Winged gate over crouching bull on right, a seated goddess on left, and kneeling Gilgamesh both holding gate with ropes. Before 3000 BC? E.
7129	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Black steatite. 2 registers. Spread eagle, vase with palm branch and worshippers on either side. Before 3000 BC. E.
7134	(none)	(none)	B16431	Adze head. Bronze. Cf. U.6137 Larsa type. E.
7140	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta plaque. Fragment. Warriors on either side of doorway of shrine. Lances standing upright from the ground: above crescent moon, geese and fish. [drawing 1:1]
7538	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta plaque. Goddess seated on throne with concave seat and no back. Full face down to waist except for arms. Legs in profile. High horned headdress, hair falls down on either side of shoulders and ends in a large curl. High flounced kaunakes dress with long and wide sleeves. Left forearm exposed to show bangle. cf. U. _
7542	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta head. Lower part of beard missing. Grotesque. Pellet eyes and sharp ridge to nose. Lower part of face incised. Thick bandeau round head. [drawing 1:1]
7549	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta figurine. Fragmentary below waist. Bearded god with thick protruding nose, wearing high conical cap with a peak which has a triangular parting to it on the middle of the forehead. Against the breast, on either side of the beard the tops of long staves? Wide square shoulders. Two rounded plaits of hair one on either side of head fall just below cap. On either side of breast rosettes and below beard an inverted crescent moon. [drawing 1:1]
7555	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta figurine. Nude female. Head broken from body. [drawing 1:1]
7563	(none)	(none)	(none)	Amulet. Frog. Frit. [faint drawing]
7573	(none)	(none)	(none)	Necklace. 48 frit beads and frog amulet in frit. Lentoids, ring beads, conoids, ball and bangle beads. Arbitrarily strung. IIIrd Dyn of Ur.