Diqdiqqeh | DQ
| 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 |
| Object | U Number | Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) | Museum Number (BM Registration Number) | Museum Number (UPM B-number) | Description (Catalog Card) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 17633 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Amulet. Puzuzu head. Glazed frit. [drawing 1:1] |
| 7594 | (none) | 1928,1009.145 | (none) | Amulet. Ram's head. Shell. White. [drawing 1:1] |
| 7558 | (none) | 1928,1009.144 | (none) | Amulet. Ram's head. Shell. White. [drawing 1:1] |
| 17109 | (none) | 1931,1010.84 | (none) | Amulet. Shell in form of a human hand [drawing 1:1] |
| 18329 | (none) | 1933,1013.89 | (none) | Amulet. Shell in form of an open human hand. |
| 17611 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Amulet. Shell. Clenched right hand with 5 fingers [drawing 1:1] |
| 17918 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Amulet. Shell. Duck. [drawing 1:1] |
| 18499 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Amulet. Shell. Fish. (the mouth broken away) [drawing 1:1] |
| 18290 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Amulet. Shell. Puzuzu head. |
| 18231 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Amulet. Shell. Puzuzu head. [drawing 1:1] |
| 17860 | (none) | 1932,1008.188 | (none) | Amulet. Spread eagle of glazed frit (the glaze all gone). [drawing 1:1] |
| 17730 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Amulet. Steatite. Head. [drawing 1:1] |
| 18291 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Amulet. Translucent green steatite. |
| 18234 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Amulet. White frit (once glazed? But glaze all perished) A seated calf? [drawing] |
| 17870 | 32-40-310 | (none) | (none) | Amulet. White shell. In the form of a flying bird (one wing missing) [drawing 1:1] | |
| 18693A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Amulets. Shell. In the shape of a human hand. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card] (A) The open hand. (B) Clenched hand. |
| 18693B | (none) | (none) | (none) | Amulets. Shell. In the shape of a human hand.[CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card] (A) The open hand. (B) Clenched hand. |
| 17700 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Animal figurine. [drawing 1:1] |
| 18341 | 33-35-164 | (none) | (none) | Animal's body. Grey steatite. Body of couchant animal, the hind quarters complete, in fairly high relief: the front leg only sketched: the stone is rounded off at the shoulder so that there never was a head. The body is flat and bears two engraved signs thus. [drawing] |
| 1435 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Animal. Drab clay: modeled. Horse(?) with head turned to left, wearing noseband. Legs broken. |
| 1434 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Animal. Drab clay: modeled. Rear hind leg broken off, and head damaged. |
| 1556 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Arrow sharpener. grey stone. Irregular shape, polished on 2 sides. [drawing 1:5] |
| 17944 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Arrowheads. Flint. Leaf shaped. [drawing 1:1] |
| 1632 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Baked clay cone of Ur-Nammu, top broken away; text records building of a temple to Enlil, and digging of a canal called En-sig-nun. Cf. U.872, U.1595-U.1597 |
| 1634 | (none) | 1924,0920.247 | (none) | Baked clay cone(point broken) of Ur-Nammu, recording his digging of the canal called Nun, in honor of the Moon-god. Duplicate of U.918. |
| 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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