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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)
12557	47-29-8	(none)	(none)	Tablet. Accounts. Date = SAK p.235L. Contents like U.12558. Date probably Ibi Sin. Probably = SAK p.235 Ibi-Sin 2. cf also U.12571. HC 530
12558	(none)	(none)	(none)	Tablet. Accounts (Ibi-Sin 1). HC 529 (The tablet has been lost in baking EB).
1256	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay model of wheel; usual type; red ware, the circumferential coggings worn away.
1257	(none)	1924,0920.124	(none)	Clay model of wheel; light buff color.
12572	(none)	(none)	(none)	Tablet. Fragment. Accounts. Pub. Same Date as preceding HC 532
12573	(none)	(none)	(none)	Tablet fragment. Accounts, Probably same date as preceding. HC 532
12574	47-29-134	(none)	(none)	Tablet. Fragment account (sheep). HC 533
12575	(none)	1948,0423.285	(none)	Tablet. Accounts (barley). HC 535
1258	(none)	(none)	(none)	Portion of clay model of a wheel; light buff.
1259	(none)	1924,0920.123	(none)	Clay model of a bellum: owl end broken
1260	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay model of a bellum, broken at one end.
12629	(none)	(none)	(none)	Mould for Sirrush. Minute. Shale? Dark. Back of mould shaped like a rectangular stamp seal.
12630	(none)	(none)	(none)	Tortoise. Miniature. Steatite. Grey.
12631	(none)	1929,1017.326	(none)	[A] Beads. A motley collection including: rock crystal balls, hematite balls, shell and (Chrysoprase?) [chalcedony] bugles (broken), [B.1-.3] 2 unpierced steatite cylinders (for seals). 1 - unpierced marble cylinder (ditto) and [C] fragment of an obsidian mace head. (truncated pear shaped).
1264	(none)	(none)	(none)	Fragment from edge of a bowl in a black porous stone, with remains of an archaic inscription under lip.
1265	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal the device mostly obliterated, but containing 3 lines inscription. Sa-ku-gi; mar Lugal-ka-gi; amel (?) DIM.
1266	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal; two confronted human figures slaying lion which rears between them facing left. Inscription. Emuk(GIR)-i-li-sa(!) mar Urdnin-? PA KU(?) LU(?)
1267	(none)	(none)	B15592, B15592	Cylinder seal; scene of "introduction" to seated god facing right, with star and crescent above. Inscription: Lugal-asum-gal (cf. U.1268) mar Ur-sul. Su-du-a.
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)
12683	(none)	1929,1017.587	(none)	Copper steelyard [leg of a stool has been crossed out]. Top missing? Square in section. [drawing 1:5]
12686	(none)	(none)	(none)	Amulet. Miniature. Glazed frit. In shape of clenched fist. [drawing 1:1]
12687	(none)	1929,1017.457	(none)	Copper crescent. Miniature. [drawing 1:1]
1269	(none)	1924,0920.176	(none)	Clay monkey. Light drab clay. Pierced for suspension. [drawing 1:1]
1270	(none)	(none)	B15724	Clay monkey. Light drab clay. Pierced for suspension. P. [drawing 1:1]
1271	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay tortoise. Light drab clay. Pierced for suspension. Under side plain. [drawing 1:1]