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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15783 | (none) | 1930,1213.41 | (none) | Copper adze. | |
 | 1717 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper arrowhead. Tang broken off. The head round in section. [drawing] |
| 12687 | (none) | 1929,1017.457 | (none) | Copper crescent. Miniature. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 2822 | (none) | 1927,1003.251 | (none) | Copper frog. Miniature. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 17436 | 31-43-175 | (none) | (none) | Copper head. Of a female? Miniature. Solid casting. | |
| 2547 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper ring. Finger ring with bone inside. |
| 12683 | (none) | 1929,1017.587 | (none) | Copper steelyard [leg of a stool has been crossed out]. Top missing? Square in section. [drawing 1:5] | |
| 6849 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper vase. With spout. Badly broken. ? |
| 1711 | (none) | 1924,0920.228 | (none) | Copper wire coil. Fragment. Part of 6 coils. | |
| 3058 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Couchant lion of shell. Pierced for suspension. [drawing 1:1] |
| 2832 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Crystal head. Head of Puzu (?) with grotesque features engraved. Pierced for suspension. [drawing 1:1] |
| 1128 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cult object. Rude flat human figure: broken. Red pebble. [drawing 1:1] |
| 1688 | (none) | (none) | B15788 | Cup or saucer. Red clay; wheelmade. B. Type IX (shallower) (not p) | |
| 1684 | (none) | 1924,0920.325 | (none) | Cup. Buff clay; wheelmade. B. Type XXXIV. =RC.26, =L, =P.43a | |
| 1687 | (none) | 1924,0920.349 | (none) | Cup. Drab clay; wheelmade. B. Type IX (shallower) =RC.4b. =L (not p) | |
| 1685 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cup. Red clay; wheelmade. B. Type VI. =RC.27 (not p) |
| 1495 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cup. Red clay; wheelmade; rim chipped. [drawing 1:1] |
| 1686 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cup. Red drab clay: wheelmade. B Type XLIV (not p) |
| 17639 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cutting instrument. Schist. [drawing 1:1] |
| 16794 | 31-43-59 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder Glazed Frit Type same as U.16.606. |
| 1268 | (none) | (none) | B15593, B15593 | Cylinder seal in 2 registers: above, scene of "introduction" to a goddess. A woman is led forward by a female protecting deity. In lower register, 3 swans. Inscription: Ahat-ilti. Assat Lugal-usum-gal. (cf.U1267) | |
| 1265 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal the device mostly obliterated, but containing 3 lines inscription. Sa-ku-gi; mar Lugal-ka-gi; amel (?) DIM. |
| 18233 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal, black steatite. Much damaged: two heroes fighting an animal. |
| 1413 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal, broken. With device of the owner being led forward, facing left, to the presence of a deity who stands with left leg raised (upon a mountain?) and holds a spear in left hand. Traces only of inscription. |
| 16551 | (none) | 1931,1010.30 | (none) | Cylinder seal, steatite. Lugal... H.C. 30/II, 7. |
| 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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