Diqdiqqeh | DQ - UrOnline

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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)
999	(none)	(none)	B15199	Mace head. Limestone frit, 3 fragments of originally glazed; pieces fit together and make of original, decorated with four entwined snakes. Photo wanted [drawing]
998	(none)	(none)	B15393	Clay Vase. Very white paste, probably once glazed, but all surface gone. Cf P.75 [drawing]
997	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay Rattle of Greenish white clay. Pierced across, rim double and scalloped. [drawing]
9323	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay Pazuzu Head [drawing] 1:1
918	(none)	(none)	(none)	Small clay cone, base and side slightly damaged. Inscription of Ur-Engur recording his digging of a canal called ID-UN. Placed in IN/No. 4.
917	(none)	(none)	(none)	Fragment of small clay cone. Duplicate of Ur-Engur's inscription concerning the canal of Ur, U.169. Placed in IN/No. 4
916	(none)	(none)	(none)	Limestone figurine. of a recumbent doe. [drawing 1:1]
915	(none)	1923,1110.97	(none)	Clay relief. Goddess seated on a chair: flounced skirt, horned headdress, 2 pegs behind to make it stand up. [drawing]
9040B	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-B] 2 Gold earrings U-shaped, hollow inside, convex outside like a pouch with a detached gold handle for suspension. One broken. The ring suspender of the other missing. [drawing ]1:1
9040A	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-B] 2 Gold earrings U-shaped, hollow inside, convex outside like a pouch with a detached gold handle for suspension. One broken. The ring suspender of the other missing. [drawing ]1:1
894	(none)	(none)	B15380	Clay pot. Drab clay. Wheelmade. Type LVII, but squatter. Not p.
893	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay pot. Reddish clay with drab engobbage. Wheelmade. Type LVII. =RC.75. not P.
8913	(none)	(none)	(none)	Gold diadem. Made of sheet gold, an oval 0185 x 0065, with a star rosette in the center made with impressed lines: at each end of the hole through which pass the gold wires for attachment behind the head.
8854	(none)	1948,0423.73	(none)	Bearded god. [drawing 1:1]
8556	(none)	(none)	B17205	Terra cotta relief A god, head full face, body profile left, seated on a ram. Flat rimmed cap, beard elaborately curled: right hand extended open, left holding whip: long open cloak to ankles. Fine example. [drawing 1:1]
8555	(none)	1928,1009.463	(none)	Terracotta relief Head missing: male figure, bearded, a dancer right: club in right hand: short skirt to knees. Surface poor. [drawing 1:1]
847	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Gilgamesh and his friend killing their favorite winged gryphon. Fairly good work.
845	31-16-908	(none)	(none)	Clay relief. Fragment, lower part only on a chair, a woman, preserved from the waist downwards, in elaborately flounced skirt. One peg survives behind for propping up the figure. [drawing 1:1]
844	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay boat. Front part of . [drawing]
843	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay figurine of red clay, snowman technique. A goddess with elaborate headdress seated on chair; hands clasped below breasts. New Babylonian style. [drawing 1:1:]
842	(none)	(none)	B15197	Clay vase of drab clay. In form of a grotesque pig with lifted snout. New Babylonian period.
8113	(none)	(none)	B17212	Terracotta plaque. Bottom half missing. In low relief. Two upright figures heavily draped and wearing conical headdresses stand with hands upraised facing either side of vertical post. Post is broader below than above. It has a narrow neck and a concave top broader than the neck, supporting what may be a crescent moon? Behind each standing figures a mace with a rounded head, fixed vertically in the ground. [drawing 1:1]
8112	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta figurine. Heavily draped goddess hands clasped below breast. Missing below waist. Hair done up in a bandeau which is worn high over the forehead. Markings on the forehead below the bandeau. These may be intended to represent fringes of hair? or jewellry? 2 horns are on either side of head over the ear. Hair ends in a thick bunch on either side of ear. Behind the head a feathered headdress (sheaves of corn?). Goddess wears necklace consisting of 3 strings of small beads and below the 3 strings a fourth of heavy beads with a large central bead. Top of dress consists of 2 thick bands falling from each shoulder and forming the angle of a V between the breasts. Band appears to be raised on left shoulder. Thick sleeves pleted at elbows. Heavy wrist-bangles. [drawing 1:1]
8111	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta figurine. Made from a mould. Missing below waist. Nude female wearing necklace and wrist bangles, hands clasped below breast. Thick bandeau to keep in the hair which hangs loose behind the ears. [drawing 1:1]
7920	(none)	(none)	B16900	Cylinder seal. Steatite. Scene of worship before Nannar. Enthronoed Nannar wearing horned headdress extends right hand to greet 2 standing gods also wearing horned headdress and with left arm upraised. Attributes: crescent moon and spear? with a shaped top.