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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)
3169	87-28-21	(none)	(none)	Terracotta boat. Flat bottomed with ornamented bow and stern.
2691	87-28-10	(none)	(none)	Model stool. Drab clay with conventional rush hatching with a border: one leg missing.
1300A	52-30-167	(none)	(none)	Clay wheel shaped rattle. Drab clay. (Broken in two.) Like U.1121.
16503	52-30-103	(none)	(none)	Clay tablet. Commercial. [CARD MISSING]
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
13002	47-29-392	(none)	(none)	Tablet.
7111	47-29-159	(none)	B16266	Terracotta plaque. Fragmentary. Bearded god? Seated on a bull left arm bent at elbow and holding an object right hand held against breast. E. [drawing 1:1]
12574	47-29-134	(none)	(none)	Tablet. Fragment account (sheep). HC 533
3228A	35-1-652	(none)	(none)	Pottery vases. Buffware, with broad cheeks and rounded base. Type CLXXXV, =RC.83, (not p).
18285	33-35-80	(none)	(none)	Signet ring. Copper. With oval bezel on which an engraved design, (corroded).
18244A	33-35-77	(none)	(none)	Copper (?) [A] dagger and [B] pin. Pin thickened to head there cut off flat. Dagger with 3 rivet holes in tang. Type: Knife RC.7b [drawing]
18565	33-35-64	(none)	(none)	Terracotta mould. For making a figurine of a nude standing female figure (entirely encrusted with salt)
18620	33-35-58	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Of a lion, passing to the right with mouth open, tail over back.
18066B	33-35-49	(none)	(none)	Terracotta figurine. Female figure standing full face, hands clasped, pleated and flounced dress, hair elaborately waved. (A) Fragment from middle thighs upwards. (B) Complete (poor example).
1571	33-35-29	(none)	(none)	Clay figurine fragment of, head and shoulders; drab clay; moulded. Bearded figure with turban-like headdress, holding animal to his breast, the head of which only remains. Height c. M. 0.066
18702	33-35-27	(none)	(none)	Terracotta figure. Hand modelled. Grotesque and female with sharply pointed nose, enormous locks of hair and heavy necklaces. Arms and all body below waist missing and breasts (snowman technique) broken off.
18701	33-35-26	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Beaded man walking right: wears loose drapery and carries a flail (?) over his right shoulder: behind him a seated monkey.
18289	33-35-259	(none)	(none)	Clay seal impression. From a cylinder. Standing figure of worshipper, with shaven head and long dress.
3163B	33-35-257	(none)	(none)	Children's rattles. Mince-pie pattern with scalloped edge.
3197	33-35-256	(none)	(none)	Child's rattle. Terracotta: drab.
2685	33-35-252	(none)	(none)	Grotesque mask. Drab clay, with pierced eyes. [drawing 1:1]
18616B	33-35-25	(none)	(none)	[A-B] Terracotta relief. Of full face female figure, wearing a high headdress with long curled ornaments on each side falling onto the shoulders, a double bead necklace to which the hands are raised. Broken about the waist. Two examples.
18613	33-35-24	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Of bearded male figure wearing a high headdress, with ornament falling down from it to below the shoulders on each side. Curls of hair on each side of the face, hands clasped, and wearing some kind of close-fitting dress. Broken below the waist.
18612	33-35-23	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Of single female figure- hands clasped below the breast. wearing heavy ruffles or necklace round the neck. & a headdress of five large bunches of hair. Lines round the waist.
18610	33-35-22	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Of naked female figure: hands clasped below the breast, hair dressed in curls over the ears and necklace round the neck. Broken about the knees.