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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Object U Number Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) Museum Number (BM Registration Number) Museum Number (UPM B-number) Description (Catalog Card)
1568 (none) 1935,0113.44 (none) Figurine. Fragment, waist upwards only. Reddish clay: moulded. Female figure, holding lance in each hand, two crescents above.
1549 (none) 1935,0113.43 (none) Relief. Small fragment. Red clay; moulded. Including female head and breast and part of another figure.
1534 (none) 1935,0113.42 (none) Figurine. Fragment. Head and legs below knees broken off, drab clay: moulded. Female figure, nude, with bracelets, left arm raised.
1463 (none) 1935,0113.41 (none) Relief fragment. Clay. Apparently showing feet of a god standing upon an animal: indistinct.
1461 (none) 1935,0113.40 (none) Relief fragment. Clay. Lower part with feet of skirted figure.
1460 (none) 1935,0113.39 (none) Relief fragment. Clay. Bottom with feet of human figure. The base is rounded out to form a stand.
17942 (none) 1935,0113.386 (none) Ear studs. Clay. [drawing 1:1]
1457 (none) 1935,0113.38 (none) Figurine fragment. Clay. Middle part of a naked woman.
1394 (none) 1935,0113.37 (none) Drab clay. Fragment. Moulded. Heads of 2 figures, one with horned headdress.
1380 (none) 1935,0113.36 (none) Figurine. Fragment. Waist upwards only, drab clay: moulded. Female figure with high double headdress (weathered).
1363 (none) 1935,0113.35 (none) Figurine. Head and feet broken off. Drab clay: moulded. Nude female figure.
1326 (none) 1935,0113.34 (none) Clay figurine. fragment of. drab clay. head only, wearing high (? horned) headdress.
1324 (none) 1935,0113.33 (none) Clay figurine. Fragment of. Brown clay: head and body only; moulded. male figure with long beard, low headdress.
3106 (none) 1935,0113.326 (none) Chariot wheel. Terracotta with toothed edge.
1323 (none) 1935,0113.32 (none) Clay figurine. Fragment of reddish drab caly: moulded. Head and body only: Male figure with square beard; flat cap; and sleeve hanging from left arm.
1321 (none) 1935,0113.31 (none) Clay head. reddish drab clay: moulded. Fragment of clay relief; bearded, with low head-dress.
1306 (none) 1935,0113.30 (none) Upper fragment of clay relief with head of god wearing horned headdress.
1305 (none) 1935,0113.29 (none) Upper fragment of clay relief with figure of head and 4-horned headdress of a god.
1251 (none) 1935,0113.28 (none) Fragment from the middle terra-cotta relief of draped goddess with hands holding her breasts. [drawing]
1250 (none) 1935,0113.27 (none) Lower portion of terracotta relief of seated god or goddess, wearing flounced skirt, which is all that remains of the object.
1610 (none) 1935,0113.267 (none) Figurine. Red clay; modeled. Figure of same type as U.1609 (the head and arms missing)
1249 (none) 1935,0113.26 (none) Fragment of a terracotta plaque with fragment of a border and part of a relief, apparently of vegetable pattern. [drawing]
1248 (none) 1935,0113.25 (none) Fragment of terracotta relief with figure of a duck, as in preceding number.
1246 (none) 1935,0113.24 (none) Fragment terracotta relief, showing right shoulder and arm of human figure holding staff surmounted by a bird. [drawing]
1242 (none) 1935,0113.23 (none) Upper part of terracotta figurine of a woman, much damaged, and all lower part missing.

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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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