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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)
16498A	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Nude woman suckling an infant. Good modelling, high relief. [drawing 1:1] (A) Broken away from waist (as drawn) (B) Broken away at hips and face smashed; from a similar but slightly smaller mould; (C) Head and legs below knees missing: perhaps from a different mould but very similar. (D) Head and feet missing; poor impression, not from the same mould as last, but perhaps identical with (A); (E) Missing from waist downward: (smaller mould); (F) Fragment broken away at hips, poor specimen; (G) Fragment head and legs below knees missing; (H) Complete, good impression, probably from different mould.
16498B	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Nude woman suckling an infant. Good modelling, high relief. [drawing 1:1] (A) Broken away from waist (as drawn) (B) Broken away at hips and face smashed; from a similar but slightly smaller mould; (C) Head and legs below knees missing: perhaps from a different mould but very similar. (D) Head and feet missing; poor impression, not from the same mould as last, but perhaps identical with (A); (E) Missing from waist downward: (smaller mould); (F) Fragment broken away at hips, poor specimen; (G) Fragment head and legs below knees missing; (H) Complete, good impression, probably from different mould.
16498F	(none)	1931,1010.450	(none)	Terracotta relief. Nude woman suckling an infant. Good modelling, high relief. [drawing 1:1] (A) Broken away from waist (as drawn) (B) Broken away at hips and face smashed; from a similar but slightly smaller mould; (C) Head and legs below knees missing: perhaps from a different mould but very similar. (D) Head and feet missing; poor impression, not from the same mould as last, but perhaps identical with (A); (E) Missing from waist downward: (smaller mould); (F) Fragment broken away at hips, poor specimen; (G) Fragment head and legs below knees missing; (H) Complete, good impression, probably from different mould.
16498G	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Nude woman suckling an infant. Good modelling, high relief. [drawing 1:1] (A) Broken away from waist (as drawn) (B) Broken away at hips and face smashed; from a similar but slightly smaller mould; (C) Head and legs below knees missing: perhaps from a different mould but very similar. (D) Head and feet missing; poor impression, not from the same mould as last, but perhaps identical with (A); (E) Missing from waist downward: (smaller mould); (F) Fragment broken away at hips, poor specimen; (G) Fragment head and legs below knees missing; (H) Complete, good impression, probably from different mould.
16499A	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Seated woman with flounced skirt suckling an infant. [drawing 1:1] (A) Part of skirt and feet broken away; [field photo] (B) Fragment head missing similar but from a different mould. Poor impression, and all the surface decayed away.
16499B	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Seated woman with flounced skirt suckling an infant. [drawing 1:1] (A) Part of skirt and feet broken away; (B) Fragment head missing similar but from a different mould. Poor impression, and all the surface decayed away.
1650	(none)	(none)	(none)	Bronze pin, pierced below head. Point broken off. [drawing]
16500	(none)	1931,1010.394	(none)	Terracotta relief. Seated goddess, full face, wearing horned headdress and flounced garment; on either side a crescent on a staff held by a minute human figure. (A) Fragment to below clasped hands. [drawing]
16503	52-30-103	(none)	(none)	Clay tablet. Commercial. [CARD MISSING]
1651	(none)	(none)	B15696	Clay relief. fragment of, from back of chair (?) Two female figures, facing each other, with emblems between. P.
1652	31-16-923	(none)	(none)	Clay figurine. Drab clay; moulded. Bearded figure with horned headdress and pleated skirt, holding emblems; weathered.
1653	(none)	(none)	(none)	Figurine. Fragment, below waist upwards only; drab clay; moulded. Female figure, nude, with low headdress and necklace.
16532	31-43-251	(none)	(none)	White calcite mace-head Fragment. Rimush. H.C. 30/111, 3.
1654	31-16-926	(none)	(none)	Figurine. Fragment, from shoulder to knees only. Red drab clay; moulded. Figure in profile; much weathered.
1655	(none)	(none)	(none)	Wheel. Clay, with intended edge.
16551	(none)	1931,1010.30	(none)	Cylinder seal, steatite. Lugal... H.C. 30/II, 7.
16552	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder-seal, hematite. No personal name Shamash: Aia H.C. 30/II, 8.
16553	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal, steatite. Ur-^d Da-?... of Nan(nar) H.C. 30/II, 9
16554	31-43-34, 31-43-34	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal, steatite. Ur-Ki(?)-dur(?)-sag(?) servant of... H.C. 30/II, 10
16555	31-43-20, 31-43-20	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal, white calcite. Ga-ad-i(?)-li(?)-a, daughter of Ah(?)-na-nu-um H.C. 30/II, 11
16557	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal, white calcite. d. Nin-gal, Son of Ur-nannar. H.C. 30/II, 13
1656	(none)	(none)	(none)	Mace head. Yellowish, mottled stone. [drawing]
16560	(none)	(none)	(none)	Steatite bead With Magical inscription. (cf. Neissner, Bablonian u. Assyrien. II, 214).
1657	(none)	(none)	(none)	Bronze implement or weapon. Square in section, tapering to point at one end, thinned out to chisel-edge at other. Broken in two.
16584	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay cone. Fragment.