AH Site | AH
Context Title: | AH Site | AH |
Context Name (Excavation): | AH; Abraham's Housing |
Context Name (Publication): | AH Site |
Context Description: | In the southeast portion of the mound of Ur, Woolley excavated a large horizontal extent of domestic space roughly 115 x 85m. near the surface he found scattered Neo-Babylonian and Kassite remains and intrusive graves of the late periods but he did not publish these in detail nor are there any extant notes covering them. Instead, Woolley's main goal was to uncover the best preserved floorplans of houses. These he found several meters down, houses of the Isin-Larsa/Old Babylonian period. Because the Old Babylonian period was typically that associated with the potential time of Abraham, Woolley used the abbreviation AH (Abraham's Housing) to refer to this excavation area. In the course of excavation of the Isin-Larsa/Old Babylonian levels Woolley numbered 27 'houses,' or excavation units. He renumbered the houses for publication based on the overall plan, preserved walls, and doors onto streets. In this way he showed there were 52 individual houses within his 27 excavation areas. However, houses were frequently altered throughout period, as families would knock out walls or block up doors, and thus true house numbers are difficult to establish. Woolley mentions phases of rebuilding, but states that he sought the best preserved floor plan and published the excavation of a particular house based on that plan alone. In some cases he noted deeper remains that may have gone back to the Ur III period. These levels he partially uncovered as he excavated graves beneath the Larsa period floors. A great deal of baked brick was in use for walls of the Isin-Larsa/Old Babylonian period. Some houses used it in the lowest portion of a wall, but others used it for entire walls up to 3 meters in height. Town planning was not evident, as streets tended to wander in narrow and winding paths. Corners where streets met were often rounded, leading Woolley to surmise that this was to prevent problems with laden donkeys catching their wares on corners. Many houses had a domestic chapel within, often with family burials beneath the floor. Communal chapels were also noted, at least four being identified in the area. Finally, Woolley believed that some buildings were specifically used for commercial activities (shops), though this is difficult to prove. |
Files
Object | U Number | Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) | Museum Number (BM Registration Number) | Museum Number (UPM B-number) | Description (Catalog Card) |
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524 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet., complete. See U376. Dated. | |
518 | (none) | (none) | B15184 | Terracotta relief - Complete: greenish pottery. 2 male fig. advancing front. Each has tall feather(?) head-dress, long hair curled over ears, Semitic nose, long beard arranged in 3 rows of short curls and +long straight hair to a point: the right arm by the side, l. across body with in hand the litnus: drapery to knees, crossing legs diagonally. Behind, two legs to make the relief stand upright. | |
3276 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Terracotta animal. Presumably horse(?). Legs missing. Sketch. [drawing] | |
3258 | (none) | 1927,1003.158 | (none) | Terracotta figurine. Small female figure of same type as U.3015, seated on chair. Legs broken off below knee. Sketch slightly small than 1:1 [drawing] | |
3150 | (none) | 1927,1003.178 | (none) | Terracotta figurine. Primitive figure of nude harpist with harp under left arm. Back and hair at back carefully modeled. Sketch 1:2. Photo: 422 (from back). [drawing 1:2] | |
3126 | (none) | 1927,1003.239 | (none) | Miniature frog. Crystal, left back leg missing. | |
3081D | (none) | (none) | B16531B | [A-D] brick of UR-Engur. "To Anu, king of gods, his king, Ur-Engur king of Ur, has planted the great orchard the shrine the pure location, he has built, of SAKI." | |
3071C | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-C] Three copper finger rings. | |
3071B | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-C] Three copper finger rings. | |
3071A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-C] Three copper finger rings. | |
3056 | (none) | 1927,1003.159 | (none) | Terracotta plaque. Showing goddess seated on bull, holding bird in left hand, crescent on pole at back and nude bull-headed man facing her. [drawing 1:1] | |
3030 | (none) | 1927,1003.188 | (none) | Duck. Of white frit originally glazed: pierced for suspension. | |
2991 | (none) | 1927,1003.166 | (none) | Terracotta figurine. Male with headgear, in profile: stick in left hand. [drawing 1:1] | |
2988 | (none) | 1927,1003.173 | (none) | Terracotta figurine. Votaress with clasped hands: adorned with beads. [drawing 1:1] | |
2987 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Terracotta figurine. Goddess with flounced dress and hands raised. [drawing 1:1] | |
2935 | (none) | 1927,1003.151 | (none) | Terracotta figurine. Female: primitive snowman technique. [drawing 1:2] | |
2914 | (none) | 1927,1003.161 | (none) | Terracotta figurine. One of pair with flounced dress: left hand raised, right hand holding cup. [drawing 1:1] | |
2909 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Miniature frog. Black stone: pierced for suspension. [drawing 1:1] | |
2904 | (none) | 1927,1003.157 | (none) | Terracotta figurine. Drab: seated female with flounced dress. Horned headdress; two sunflowers and moon overhead. [drawing 1:1] | |
2865A | (none) | 1927,1003.164 | (none) | Terracotta figurine. Nude Ishtar standing upon lion. Broken in two, much defaced. [drawing 1:1] | |
2822 | (none) | 1927,1003.251 | (none) | Copper frog. Miniature. [drawing 1:1] | |
2775 | (none) | 1927,1003.171 | (none) | Terracotta figurine. Drab ware: female votaress, nude, in attitude of devotion. [drawing 1:1] | |
2774 | (none) | 1927,1003.176 | (none) | Terracotta figurine. Female, kneeling with hands on breast: head missing : reddish ware. [drawing 1:1] | |
2773 | (none) | 1927,1003.167 | (none) | Terracotta figurine. Buff ware: portraying god wearing simplet fillet and carrying flail: sacred animal overhead. [drawing 1:1] | |
2723 | (none) | 1927,1003.119 | (none) | Clay pot. Miniature, of wheel-made buff ware. Lip broken. Type CXXXV = RC.131 =P108b |
Media | Media Title | Title | Label | Author | Omeka Label |
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Ur Excavations III: Archaic Seal-Impressions | Ur Excavations III: Archaic Seal-Impressions | 1936 | Legrain, Leon, and Woolley, Leonard | (none) | |
Social Variation in Ancient Mesopotamia: An Architectural and Mortuary Analysis of Ur in the Early S | Social Variation in Ancient Mesopotamia: An Architectural and Mortuary Analysis of Ur in the Early Second Millenium B.C. | 1990 | Luby, Edward Michael | (none) | |
Woolley's Field Note Cards | Woolley's Field Note Cards | Ur_Notes_v2_p005c | Ur_Notes_v2_p005c | (none) | |
Woolley's Field Note Cards | Woolley's Field Note Cards | Ur_Notes_v2_p006c | Ur_Notes_v2_p006c | (none) | |
Woolley's Field Note Cards | Woolley's Field Note Cards | Ur_Notes_v2_p018 | Ur_Notes_v2_p018 | (none) | |
Woolley's Field Note Cards | Woolley's Field Note Cards | Ur_Notes_v2_p023 | Ur_Notes_v2_p023 | (none) | |
Woolley's Field Note Cards | Woolley's Field Note Cards | Ur_Notes_v2_p024 | Ur_Notes_v2_p024 | (none) | |
Woolley's Field Note Cards | Woolley's Field Note Cards | Ur_Notes_v3_p008 | Ur_Notes_v3_p008 | (none) | |
Woolley's Field Note Cards | Woolley's Field Note Cards | Ur_Notes_v3_p009 | Ur_Notes_v3_p009 | (none) | |
Woolley's Field Note Cards | Woolley's Field Note Cards | Ur_Notes_v3_p010 | Ur_Notes_v3_p010 | (none) | |
Woolley's Field Note Cards | Woolley's Field Note Cards | Ur_Notes_v3_p011 | Ur_Notes_v3_p011 | (none) | |
Woolley's Field Note Cards | Woolley's Field Note Cards | Ur_Notes_v3_p012 | Ur_Notes_v3_p012 | (none) | |
Woolley's Field Note Cards | Woolley's Field Note Cards | Ur_Notes_v3_p013 | Ur_Notes_v3_p013 | (none) | |
Woolley's Field Note Cards | Woolley's Field Note Cards | Ur_Notes_v3_p014 | Ur_Notes_v3_p014 | (none) | |
Woolley's Field Note Cards | Woolley's Field Note Cards | Ur_Notes_v3_p015 | Ur_Notes_v3_p015 | (none) | |
Woolley's Field Note Cards | Woolley's Field Note Cards | Ur_Notes_v3_p016 | Ur_Notes_v3_p016 | (none) | |
Woolley's Field Note Cards | Woolley's Field Note Cards | Ur_Notes_v3_p017 | Ur_Notes_v3_p017 | (none) | |
Woolley's Field Note Cards | Woolley's Field Note Cards | Ur_Notes_v3_p018 | Ur_Notes_v3_p018 | (none) | |
Woolley's Field Note Cards | Woolley's Field Note Cards | Ur_Notes_v3_p019 | Ur_Notes_v3_p019 | (none) | |
Woolley's Field Note Cards | Woolley's Field Note Cards | Ur_Notes_v3_p020 | Ur_Notes_v3_p020 | (none) | |
Woolley's Field Note Cards | Woolley's Field Note Cards | Ur_Notes_v3_p024 | Ur_Notes_v3_p024 | (none) | |
Woolley's Field Note Cards | Woolley's Field Note Cards | Ur_Notes_v3_p025 | Ur_Notes_v3_p025 | (none) | |
Woolley's Field Note Cards | Woolley's Field Note Cards | Ur_Notes_v3_p026 | Ur_Notes_v3_p026 | (none) | |
Woolley's Field Note Cards | Woolley's Field Note Cards | Ur_Notes_v3_p027 | Ur_Notes_v3_p027 | (none) | |
Woolley's Field Note Cards | Woolley's Field Note Cards | Ur_Notes_v3_p028 | Ur_Notes_v3_p028 | (none) |
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References
Woolley, Leonard. (1974) Ur Excavations VI; The Ur III Period, Oxford: Oxford University Press.