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)
15736	31-16-916	(none)	(none)	Terracotta figurine. God wearing high horned headdress, long beard descending to waist, long curl falling onto each shoulder, and supporting a pair of maces one at each shoulder. Missing below waist.
15749	31-16-914	(none)	(none)	Terracotta plaque. 2 figures, full face - in high relief. A bearded male deity and a goddess wearing high horned headdress, earrings? Necklace consisting of 3 strings of beads, and pleated coat which leaves right shoulder exposed. Right arm of goddess rests against left shoulder of god. Fragment: head only of god, goddess missing below waist.
1108	31-16-912	(none)	(none)	Clay figurine. fragment of. neck downwards. moulded: greenish clay [drawing]
1107	31-16-911	(none)	(none)	Clay Figurine. Fragment of. Breast downwards. moulded: pinkish clay [drawing 1:1]
1113	31-16-910	(none)	B19317	Clay Figurine. Fragment of. below waist downwards; seated. moulded. drab clay [drawing 1:1]
845	31-16-908	(none)	(none)	Clay relief. Fragment, lower part only on a chair, a woman, preserved from the waist downwards, in elaborately flounced skirt. One peg survives behind for propping up the figure. [drawing 1:1]
2530	31-16-907	(none)	(none)	Drab clay figurine. Male with flounced dress. Head missing. [drawing 1:1]
1532	31-16-880	(none)	(none)	Figurine. Fragment. Waist upwards only. Yellow clay: moulded. Female figure, with necklace, weathered. P. 31-16.880
1609	31-16-875	(none)	(none)	Figurine. Drab clay; modeled. Female(?) figure with cross-belt (or bandoliers) - legs not indicated: head missing.
1352	31-16-852	(none)	(none)	Clay figurine. Drab clay. Moulded, head broken off. Female figure.
3206	31-16-839	(none)	(none)	Terracotta figurine. Drab ware: woman squatting and suckling child. Cf. U.809.
1218	31-16-838	(none)	(none)	Part of terracotta moulded relief of naked woman holding child at her breast. The child sits upon the left hand and is supported by right. Head and fast of the relief missing.
1340	31-16-835	(none)	(none)	Figurine. Fragment, waist upward only: red-brown clay: moulded. Nude female figure.
1387	31-16-832	(none)	(none)	Figurine. Red clay: moulded. Nude female figure, chipped, and feet broken off.
1137	31-16-827	(none)	(none)	Clay Figurine. Fragment of bearded head and right shoulder. Moulded: light reddish clay. [drawing 1:1]
1365	31-16-815	(none)	(none)	Figurine. Fragment, below waist only. Reddish clay: moulded. Female(?) figure in elaborately flounced skirt.
1390	31-16-806	(none)	(none)	Drab clay fragment. Skirt of seated figure between 2 birds. Moulded.
1448	31-16-792	(none)	(none)	Clay Figurine. Fragment of, waist upwards only; green clay: Moulded
1458	31-16-789	(none)	(none)	Relief fragment. Clay. Lower part showing the waist and legs of a naked woman. The base is rounded out to form a stand.
2978	31-16-785	(none)	(none)	Terracotta figurine. Nude votaress with clasped hands. [drawing 1:1]
12788	31-16-773	(none)	(none)	Terracotta figurines. Fragment. Moulded. Female figure, full face, from waist upwards; hands clasped below breasts, fillet round hair, torso nude.
12782	31-16-772	(none)	(none)	Terracotta figure. Moulded. Female, hands clasped, full face, seated, wearing horned cap and dress of pleated flounces to feet.
12761	31-16-768	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief moulded. Nude female figure holding her breasts. Broken off below the knees. [drawing 1:1]
3064C	31-16-728	(none)	(none)	[A-D] Terracotta chariot-wheels. Drab ware, detached from cars. (C) Somewhat broken.
3162D	31-16-727	(none)	(none)	Terracotta chariot wheels.