ESB

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Context Title:	ESB
Context Name (Excavation):	Enunmah South; Emuriana Site
Context Description:	This is the excavation area south of area ES, beyond the southernmost wall of the enunmah and just east of the dublalmah (likely it extends further west than the reference image shows). It was in this area that a door socket of Kurigalzu mentioning a building called the emuriana was found and Woolley attempted to uncover this building here. The socket was not found in its original position, however, and Woolley eventually felt that the emuriana building was never in this location or that it had been completely destroyed. What he found in the area was mostly related to the enunmah and/or the NeoBabylonian Giparu or were scattered walls that were very difficult to follow. Indeed, this area of the temenos zone, from the eastern edge of the dublalmah to the northeast wall of the NeoBabylonian temenos wall, was badly denuded. Area ES/ESB was sometimes equated with the dublalmah because it was initially thought that building may have extended here and it was included as part of the NeoBabylonian Giparu.
Season Number:	03: 1924-1925

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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)
2983A	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-F] Copper ore. Six pieces of varying sizes. Close to U.3045 (Tablet with Copper contract) From copper furnace. Date of Bur-Sin
2992	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay tablet (10 Col.). Date: "Year after that when Ibi-Sin "king of Ur, built the great walls of Nippur and Ur." Text comptability "98 servant (fem.) 63 children. Their oil "(ia) 1 gur, 177 qa - their fat (? ia) 3 gur, 60 qa "rations of the servant weavers (ush-bar) "of E-kar-zi-da, Month of Ezen-mah." H.C.
3033	47-29-174, 47-29-174	(none)	(none)	Clay tablet with envelope. Receipt. Dated: "After year when Ibi-Sin king of "Ur built the great wallof Nippur and Ur. Seal impress: Lu-d( ) Son of Bur-a-mu Lu dSin.
3034	47-29-140, 47-29-140	(none)	(none)	Clay tablet. Comptability gold and silver. Ibi-Sin (?) 3 2/3 shekel gold. 3 maneh 6 5/6 shekel 15 grain silver. Balance of revenue brought in.
3035	47-29-393, 47-29-393	(none)	(none)	Clay tablet. List of proper names (Pay list?) Time of Ibi-Sin.
3042	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay tablet. Letter reverse damaged. Time of Ibi-Sin. Soldiers (workmen) sent on their way, may be returned. H.C.
3045	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay tablet. Fragment. Time: Ibi-Sin. 6 talents, 43 manehs. Copper, from the merchants, entered in E-dubba. H.C.
3046	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay tablet. Damaged. Time: Ibi-Sin king. Copper from the merchatns. Entered in E-dubba. H.C.
3049	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay tablet. Only reverse preserved. Date: (Ibi-Sin) when he built the great wall Text: Comptability. Barley issued for the orchards of the temple, and of the district of Ga-eshki. H.C.
3050	47-29-193	(none)	(none)	Clay tablet. Fragment. Time of Ibi-Sin. Comptability- Receipts in the names of several scribes for: wool, cloth, oil, perfume, barley.
3054	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay tablet. Expenditure for royal offering, "in the temple of Nannar, in Ga-eshki, in the month "of Ezen-mah (great feast), year after that when Ibi-Sin king of Ur, built the great wall of Nippur "and Ur." Total: 1 gur 172 qa 10 gin grain for: beer of 2 kinds, floor 2 kinds, a-tir grain, sweet paste and butter, dates, salt, incense (for censer). Detail of shrines: 1) Throne in shrine of Nannar 2) Shrine Bar-dug-kam-kam (great pots) 3) Dub-lal 4) Crod ( ) 5) House of metal and lapis and door in front... H.C.
3073	47-29-176	(none)	(none)	Clay tablet only reverse. Date: Ibi-Sin Text: Rations (grain, oil) of the female and male servants of E-kar-zi-da for one month. Among the men are classes: the craftsmen, the cowherdsmen, etc. H.C.
3080	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay tablet. (4 Columns) Date: (Ibi-Sin) When the daughter of the king married the palesi of Zabshali. Text: Operations of Dugga-ni-zid for 12 month. Total thread (gu) supplied, of flour (food) of the workers, and of days of female slave work (gim) per month - Special detail of the dead and sick - And balance of thread left. Work of the e-ush-bar, of e-dubba, of e-dub-shar ga-nun-na, and some supplimentary work shops. H.C.
3087	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay tablet fragment. Time Ibi-Sur. Text - offering to statues. H.C.
3089	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay tablet fragment. Date: Ibi-Sin. Text: Monthly account of barley and oil, rations of 35 male and female employees of E-kar-zi-da. H.C. (partly)
3090	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay tablet. 2 Columns. Date Ibi-Sin. Monthly report of cloth or garments (tug) entered into the tablet office of Ga-nun-mah 122 pieces of 12 varieties. H.C. (partly)
3091	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay tablet. Fragment. Date: Ibi-sin. Monthly pay list of the temple servants the trench diggers? The fern [fem?] miller, the keeper of orchards, the cowherds, the asses her, the shephards, etc. H.C.
3096	(none)	(none)	(none)	Fragment of tablet. Liturgy (?) of dBur-dSin.
3097	(none)	(none)	(none)	Tablet fragment. Exercise cuneiform writing.
3098	47-29-3699, 47-29-369	(none)	(none)	Tablet. Date: Ibi-Sin king. Year after? Text: Receipt for 3 skins of grass sheep. Seal impress of Lugal-ga-ti (l) e-kiag, scribe.
3100	(none)	(none)	(none)	Tablet. Date: ibi-Sin. Text: Receipt for cloth nig-ne 4th quality. Seal impression of Nannar-hi-li, servant of nannar.
3131	(none)	(none)	(none)	Baked clay brick fragment. With drawing. [drawing]
3155	(none)	(none)	(none)	Child's rattle. Very fine specimen of smooth workmanship with crosses incised and line round joining the lines.
3156	(none)	(none)	(none)	Fragment of bronze dagger blade. [drawing 1:1]
3159	(none)	(none)	(none)	Fragment of Diorite Statue with royal inscription (to Nannar) of Gimil-Sin. To ( ) his king Gimil (Sin) beloved of ( ), mighty king, king of Ur, king of the 4 regions of the world.