Pit K | Ziggurat Pit A | PAT

Context Title: Pit K | Ziggurat Pit A | PAT     
Context Name (Excavation): PAT; Ziggurat Pit A; Pit K     
Context Name (Publication): Pit K     
Context Description: Excavation area abbreviation PAT was also called Ziggurat Pit A. It was expanded and renamed Pit K in season 9. The pit was located within the area of PDW, on top of the northwest portion of the ziggurat terrace and cut down into its filling. Woolley had hoped to find early buildings beneath the terrace but only uncovered fill of broken bricks and Ubaid period pottery. He dug a second pit to the west on the line of the terrace wall (see Pit L). Woolley is unclear on the exact placement of either pit and the only plan published does not correspond well with his notes. In a field report dated Feb. 1, 1931, he speaks of removing the Neo-Babylonian sanctuary of Nannar and making this the site of his deep pit. This building sat on the northeastern side of the terrace, just north of the ziggurat's central staircase. In publication UE4, however, Woolley states that the pit was located in the center of the northwest portion of the terrace (the plan shows it falling in the UrIII shrine of Nannar). At this point Woolley also states the pit was dug in 1932, but all field records indicate it was dug in January, 1931 (and begun as PAT in 1925). In the season 9 excavation it is clear that Woolley intended to excavate a deep trench on the terrace that included both PAT and PBT. He laid out an area measuring some 20x40 meters that included the smaller pits. This excavation uncovered the early and quite dense terrace wall, so Woolley continued as two pits, Pit K and Pit L, falling essentially on either side of it. Pit K was farther southeast and measured 11x20 meters, stepping in to become 9.5 meters at a depth of 7 meters from the surface. It continued down to sea level, about 14 meters below the surface. These measurements are obtained from the stratigraphic profile published in UE4, but it is admittedly difficult to interpret. The only scale on the image is the vertical and this scale appears to have been exaggerated to show the strata while including the entire horizontal extent on the page. When the portion of the ziggurat included on the drawing is scaled to meet its appropriate horizontal, the Pit K profile is shown to be approximately 11 meters NW-SE at the top. Two season 8 artifacts have the context Ziggurat Pit A (with a note that this was renamed Pit K). Field notes do not indicate excavation of the pit in season 8 and the artifacts are very late in the season 8 sequence. Woolley may have been cleaning out the old pit in preparation for the following season expansion.     
Season Number: 03: 1924-1925      
Season Number: 09: 1930-1931      

Objects: Pit K | Ziggurat Pit A | PAT Export: JSON - XML - CSV

Object U Number Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) Museum Number (BM Registration Number) Museum Number (UPM B-number) Description (Catalog Card)
15796 31-17-91 (none) (none) Amulet(?) Terracotta animal. Possibly a tortoise(?). [drawing 1:1]
15804 31-16-520 (none) (none) Stone hoe. [drawing 1:1]
17149 (none) 1930,1213.467 (none) Clay bowl. Large, with flat base and straight somewhat everted sides. Al 'Obaid ware with a band of decoration in black round the rim and just above the base broken and incomplete, but a considerable fragment. Type aU.51 [Al 'Obaid typology?] [drawing]
2556 (none) (none) (none) Clay tablet. Inscribed. Fragment of Syllabary. 21 lines. End of one column of obverse signs: DI. TAK. A.DIR.NE.LAL.GUB? KUL. ES. BE. BAT. UG. IG. IG. IG. DA. TUM? AL? IB. BA. SIG. 21 lines.
2557 (none) (none) (none) Clay tablet. Letter Unto Nabu-sag-ga, so speaks?. x his brother: Na-dug son of Ma-kam(?) ?unto the 5 brothers, ?son of Makam, ? ki-ma son of the calker (Ad-kib), he has brought Neo-Babylonian Period? 10 lines writing. H.C.
2559 (none) 1927,1003.128 (none) Clay vase. Drab clay with incised pattern at rim and base. Rim broken. Type CXXV =L38 (not p).
2566A (none) (none) B16467 Baked brick of ISHME-DAGAN. Fragment. Ishme-Dagan, who takes care of Nippur, who exalts the head of Ur, the .... of Eridu, the lord of Uruk, the powerful king, (king of Isin, king of Sumer and Akkad, the beloved husband of the goddess Ninni Only lines 1 to 7 are preserved. c. BC 2110.
2566B (none) (none) B16468A Baked brick of ISHME-DAGAN. Fragment. Ishme-Dagan, who takes care of Nippur, who exalts the head of Ur, the .... of Eridu, the lord of Uruk, the powerful king, (king of Isin, king of Sumer and Akkad, the beloved husband of the goddess Ninni Only lines 1 to 7 are preserved. c. BC 2110.
2566C (none) (none) B16539 Baked brick of ISHME-DAGAN. Fragment. Ishme-Dagan, who takes care of Nippur, who exalts the head of Ur, the .... of Eridu, the lord of Uruk, the powerful king, (king of Isin, king of Sumer and Akkad, the beloved husband of the goddess Ninni Only lines 1 to 7 are preserved. c. BC 2110.
2566D (none) (none) B16540 Baked brick of ISHME-DAGAN. Fragment. Ishme-Dagan, who takes care of Nippur, who exalts the head of Ur, the .... of Eridu, the lord of Uruk, the powerful king, (king of Isin, king of Sumer and Akkad, the beloved husband of the goddess Ninni Only lines 1 to 7 are preserved. c. BC 2110.
2566E (none) (none) (none) Baked brick of ISHME-DAGAN. Fragment. Ishme-Dagan, who takes care of Nippur, who exalts the head of Ur, the .... of Eridu, the lord of Uruk, the powerful king, (king of Isin, king of Sumer and Akkad, the beloved husband of the goddess Ninni Only lines 1 to 7 are preserved. c. BC 2110.
2566F (none) (none) (none) Baked brick of ISHME-DAGAN. Fragment. Ishme-Dagan, who takes care of Nippur, who exalts the head of Ur, the .... of Eridu, the lord of Uruk, the powerful king, (king of Isin, king of Sumer and Akkad, the beloved husband of the goddess Ninni Only lines 1 to 7 are preserved. c. BC 2110.
2566G (none) (none) (none) Baked brick of ISHME-DAGAN. Fragment. Ishme-Dagan, who takes care of Nippur, who exalts the head of Ur, the .... of Eridu, the lord of Uruk, the powerful king, (king of Isin, king of Sumer and Akkad, the beloved husband of the goddess Ninni Only lines 1 to 7 are preserved. c. BC 2110.
2569A (none) (none) B16542 Baked brick. Stamp for En-an-na-tum, the beloved priest of Nannar, high-priest of Nannar, in Ur, son of Ishme Dagan, king of Sumer, and Akkad. (6 lines) Ishme-Dagan, king of Isin about BC 2100. H.C. Brick (28) x 18 1/2 x 8 from cruciform building. Brick 28 x 28 x 8 cm. Stamp 76 x 45mm. H.C.
2569B (none) (none) (none) Baked Brick. Stamp of "En-an-na-tum, the beloved pries of Nannar, High priest of Nannar, in Ur, son of Ishme-Dagan, King of Sumer and Akkad" (6 lines). Ishme-Dagan, king of Isin about BC 2100
2569C (none) (none) (none) Baked Brick. Stamp of "En-an-na-tum, the beloved pries of Nannar, High priest of Nannar, in Ur, son of Ishme-Dagan, King of Sumer and Akkad" (6 lines). Ishme-Dagan, king of Isin about BC 2100
2570 (none) (none) B16496, B16496 Baked brick. Broken. Drawing resembles cuneiform sign for wall tomb [drawing 1:2]
2571 (none) (none) (none) Figurine. Drab clay. Nude female, suckling child; head and legs missing. Depth 2-5m [drawing 1:1]
2572 (none) (none) (none) Ring. Pottery: roughly joined. Depth 2m-5m. [drawing 1:1]
2574 (none) (none) (none) Bone stilus? Writing end broken. Depth 2m-5m.
2576 (none) 1927,1003.35 (none) Clay cone of Ibi-Sin. Fragment. -About BC 2190. Text: "dIbi-ilSin, god of the "country, (powerful) king, king (of Ur) "king (of Sumer and Akkad)? "- 6 or 7 lines missing - two last lines "illegible." H.C.
2578 (none) (none) (none) Inscribed black clay tablet of circular form? Fragment of school exercise or litany has 2 on obverse. 3 lines on the reverse. The name; dNannar ( ) About BC 2100?
2579 (none) (none) (none) Clay tablet. Fragment. School exercise - List of signs: Gish: wood object. c. BC 2100
2580 (none) (none) (none) Clay tablet. Fragment. School exercise - List of signs. c. BC 2100
2635A 29-174-17 (none) (none) Pottery vase. Unglazed greenish buff clay. Type CXXIX =L. (not p) Associated with U.2654
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Media: Pit K | Ziggurat Pit A | PAT Export: JSON - XML - CSV

Media Media Title Title Label Author Omeka Label
Ur Excavations IV; The Early Periods Ur Excavations IV; The Early Periods 1955 Woolley, L. (none)
Ur Excavations V: The Ziggurat and its Surroundings Ur Excavations V: The Ziggurat and its Surroundings 1939 Woolley Leonard (none)
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L.3 - Pit L | Ziggurat Pit B | PBT

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References

Woolley, L. . (1955) Ur Excavations IV; The Early Periods, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Woolley Leonard. (1939) Ur Excavations V: The Ziggurat and its Surroundings, Oxford: Oxford University Press.