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.     

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Object U Number Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) Museum Number (BM Registration Number) Museum Number (UPM B-number) Description (Catalog Card)
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: AH Site | AH Export: JSON - XML - CSV

Media Media Title Title Label Author Omeka Label
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)
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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)
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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.

Luby, Edward Michael. (1990) Social Variation in Ancient Mesopotamia: An Architectural and Mortuary Analysis of Ur in the Early Second Millenium B.C., UMI Dissertation Services.

Legrain, Leon, and Woolley, Leonard. (1936) Ur Excavations III: Archaic Seal-Impressions, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Woolley, L. and M. Mallowan . (1976) Ur Excavations VII; The Old Babylonian Period, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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