Diqdiqqeh | DQ
| 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 |
| Object | U Number | Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) | Museum Number (BM Registration Number) | Museum Number (UPM B-number) | Description (Catalog Card) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 1283 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay duck. (head missing) Like U.1280. |
| 1284 | (none) | 1924,0920.50 | (none) | Stone Janus-head. Red stone. Beardless, flat-featured face, (pierced vertically for suspension) [drawing 1:1] |
| 1285 | (none) | (none) | B15591 | Stone amulet. (?) Black stone, polished. Conventionalized representation of two heads (possibly rams?) and bodied, shoulder to shoulder, the bodies adorned with incised lines - the back plain. (pierced vertically for suspension) [drawing 1:1] | |
| 1286 | (none) | 1924,0920.172 | (none) | Clay rosette. Light clay. Showing traces of green glaze; pierced through clay loop at back for attaching. (17 petals in rosette.) |
| 1287 | (none) | (none) | B15718 | Clay Rosette. Fragment of light clay. Like U.1286, but larger. P. | |
| 1288 | (none) | 1924,0920.399 | (none) | Clay rosette. Fragment of drab clay. Like U.1286. |
| 1289 | (none) | 1924,0920.173 | (none) | Clay rosette. Fragment of light clay, (lacking central boss, and loop it back) |
| 1290 | (none) | 1924,0920.124 | (none) | Clay wheel. Drab clay, with foliated edge; pierced through central boss. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 1291 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay wheel. Drab clay. Like U.1290. |
| 1292 | (none) | (none) | B15709 | Clay wheel. Drab clay. Like U.1290. P. | |
| 1293 | (none) | 1924,0920.125 | (none) | Clay wheel. Red clay. Like U.1290. | |
| 1294 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay wheel. Red clay. Plain edge, pierced through central boss. |
| 1295 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay wheel. Red drab clay. Like U.1294. |
| 1296 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay wheel. Drab clay. (edge chipped) Like U.1294. |
| 1297 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay wheel. Drab clay. Slightly foliated edge: central boss not so prominent as U.1294. |
| 1298 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay wheel. Drab clay. Almost plain edge, central boss not so prominent as U.1294. |
| 12982 | (none) | 1948,0423.84 | (none) | Tablet. Case tablet. Eimil-Sin 7 contract about silver. HC 536. |
| 12983 | (none) | 1948,0423.172 | (none) | Tablet. Fragment. Accounts (Ur III). HC 539. |
| 12984 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet. Fragment accounts (Ur III). HC 539. |
| 12985 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet. Receipt of silver (Ur III). HC 537. |
| 12986 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet. Contract. Gimil-Sin 3. (much damaged) |
| 12987 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet. Fragment accounts (Ur 3). HC 540. |
| 12988 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet. Contract concerning silver Ibi-Sin 3 (year after Ibi-Sin 2 in SAK). HC 541. |
| 12989 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet. Business document (Gimil-Sin 3) |
| 1299 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay wheel. Red drab clay. (Like wheel-shaped rattle U.1121, but not pierced and apparently no bead inside) |
| 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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