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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)
1718	(none)	(none)	B15610	Fragment of shaft (top only) of bitumen paste(?); round at top, hexagonally grooved below. [drawing 2:5]
1721	(none)	(none)	B15631	Figurine. Red clay; moulded. Bearded figure with horned headdress, holding emblems. Found with cylinder seal U.1720. P.
1723	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay figurine. Drab clay: moulded. Nude female figure, with necklace.
1724	(none)	(none)	B15645	Standing bearded god. P.
1728	(none)	(none)	B15640	Terracotta relief. 2 figures (intact). Left bearded god with long flounced dress, holds scepter (?) in right hand; full face; left hand across chest; right goddess with tall horned crown, flounced skirt and shawl, over left shoulder, left hand across chest, right hand on shoulder of male figure: full face. The plaque stands upright on a slightly hollow base. P.
1729	(none)	(none)	B15668	Terracotta figurine. Fragment of lower part, from waist to ankles, of nude female figure, normal flat and wide-hipped type. P. [drawing]
1730	(none)	(none)	B15665	Terracotta relief. Broken. Nude female figure, full face, right hand below breasts, left hand raised (cf. No.U.1346) head and feet missing. P. [drawing]
1732	(none)	(none)	B15691	Terracotta figurine. Fragment. Lower part only, from waist of seated female(?) figure; no details of dress, etc, except that the skirt was flounced. P.
1733	(none)	(none)	B15589	Cylinder seal. grey steatite. Very scratchily engraved on one side only with design of 2 men fighting a lion. P. [drawing]
1734	(none)	(none)	B15590	Cylinder seal. grey stone. Broken. Upper part only of introduction scene with crescent moon in front of god. P.
1735	(none)	(none)	B15768	Bowl. Light red clay with creamy slip. P. [drawing 1:1]
1737	(none)	(none)	B15772	Vase. Miniature. Light pinkish ware. P. [drawing 1:1]
1738	(none)	(none)	B15775	Miniature vase. Spouted. Handmade and very rough: light drab clay. P. [drawing 1:1]
1741	(none)	(none)	B15641	Terracotta relief. 2 figures full face side by side; on l, male figure, on rt. female: both wear long skirts. Whole surface of clay flaked off & details of figs lost. P.
1743	(none)	(none)	B15683	Terracotta relief. Female figure, full face, apparently seated but body and legs in one plane. Hands raised to breasts. Horned high headdress with spiral curls to shoulders, flounced dress with full sleeves. Surface of clay badly flaked. P.
1744	(none)	(none)	B15634	Terracotta relief. Green clay. Figure of goddess, full face, hands below breasts holding situla-bottles. Mural(?) crown on head above heavily frizzed hair: several necklaces but breasts bare: big cloak with rosettes on shoulders hands concealing arms: from waist, flounced and pleated skirt, rosettes by ears and alongside skirt. P.
1745	(none)	(none)	B15642	Terracotta relief. Light red clay. Intact. Bearded male figure advancing right. Wears plain brimmed hat, vest and long cloak fringed down front and along bottom edge (which comes to calf) hands to chest, right hand holding throw-stick(?) in background a table with offerings(?) P.
1747	(none)	(none)	B15693	Terracotta figurine. Fragment. Red clay. Face only of beardless male figure very finely moulded. P.
1748	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta figurine. Fragment. Whitish clay. Nude female figure, full face, broken at knees; no detail.
1750	(none)	(none)	B15715	Miniature goblet. Pinkish white clay. Handmade. [drawing 1:1]
1751	(none)	(none)	B15767	Vase. Light red clay, creamy engobbage. Handmade. Ornament incised before baking, design of 5 geese in a row and a palm tree. P.
1754	(none)	(none)	B15686	Clay Figurine. Hand-modeled. Female (?) figure in snowman technique: elaborate applied headdress. Arms broken, but were free; figure broken at waist, part of chest flaked off. P.
1760	(none)	(none)	B15723	Terracotta figurine hand-modeled. a goat [drawing 1:1] P.
1761	(none)	(none)	B15707	Terracotta figurine. Pig. 2 rear legs missing, incised on belly. P. 15707 [drawing 1:1]
1762	(none)	(none)	B15650	Terracotta relief. Red clay. Moulded. Bearded figure, full face. On head, high horned cap (chipped), long curls on shoulder, bull's ears: dress presumably sheepskin queerly treated with lobes in relief: right hand holds mace to shoulder left hand apparently an axe of this type. Broken at waist.