Mausoleum Site | BC

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Context Title:	Mausoleum Site \| BC
Context Name (Excavation):	Bur-Sin Corner; BC
Context Name (Publication):	Mausoleum of Dungi; Shulgi Mausoleum; Mausoleum Site
Context Description:	Woolley called the east corner of the Neo-Babylonian temenos the Bur-Sin Corner (area BC) because he found bricks of Bur-Sin (now read Amar-Sin or Amar-Suen) there in early season explorations. Area BC is particularly complex because it consists of substantial building in many periods. The largest building was of the Ur III period, and it is this building to which the abbreviation BC typically refers in field notes. It sits at the northeastern edge of the Royal Cemetery. The main Ur III building was 35 x 27m and its southwest wall was preserved two meters in height, while its northeast wall was largely destroyed. Its walls were built with inscribed bricks of Shulgi. The overall layout of the building is much like a courtyard house but on a large scale and with more ritual furnishings. Attached to this building were two annexes, one northwest and the other southeast, built with bricks of Shulgi's son, Amar-Sin (see context AD). Beneath the entire building were three very large vaults. All of them had been plundered in antiquity and only scattered fragments of artifacts and bones were discovered inside. Nonetheless, Woolley believed that these vaults originally held the remains of the Ur III kings. For this reason, area BC is sometimes referred to as the Mausoleum Site. The building was destroyed by Elamites, according to Woolley, and sometime thereafter houses of the Isin-Larsa/Old Babylonian period were constructed in the area (see House 30). Finally, the Neo-Babylonian Temenos wall was constructed over and through parts of the remains.
Season Number:	09: 1930-1931
Culture/Period:	Ur III

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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)
(none)	(none)	1931,1010.185	(none)	(none)
16003	31-43-247	(none)	(none)	Clay cone. Ur-gigir. The building of E-ses-(e-)-gar(-ra), temple of ... HC.30/ I.1 UET 8/2 (Hand Copied by Legrain) [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16004	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay Tablet. Business document. Date: Year in which Gimil-sin, King of Ur, built of the god...of Gis-HU (9th year.) (cf. SAKI. p.234, note 1) [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16005	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay Tablet. Business document. Date Year in which Gimil-Sin, King of Ur, laid waste the land Zabshali (7th year) (cf. SAKI. p.234) [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16006	(none)	(none)	(none)	Lapis lazuli cylinder seal. Adad-rabi, son of Rim-adad. HC.30/I.2 UET 8/2 (hand copied by Legrain)
16007	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay Cone. Fragmentary. Sumu-ilu (Duplicate of Ur inscription, No. 115) Foundation of (E-udda) [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16007A	(none)	(none)	(none)	(none)
16007B	(none)	(none)	(none)	(none)
16008	(none)	1931,1010.4	(none)	Diorite Bowl. Fragment. Dungi. Temple of Nin-gis-zida. Inscription HC..30/I,4 UET 8/2 (Hand copied by Legrain) [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16009	(none)	1953,0411.58	(none)	Clay Tablet. business document. Date: Year when Ganhar was laid waste (22 year of Dungi) (SAKI p.230) [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16010	(none)	1948,0423.169	(none)	Clay Tablet. business document(?) Date: Year when Idi-Sin, King of Ur made for Nannar a gods (?) seat. (Ur Inscription 198) [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16011	(none)	1948,0423.321	(none)	Clay tablet. Commercial. Date :Year when Huhunuri was laid waste (7th year of Bur-Sin) (SAKI, p.233) Obv. surface of tablet covered with seal impressions, reading: Ur-?-bi dub-sar dumu LuKa-Ni...dub-sar. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16012	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay cone. Fragment. Libit-Ishtar (see Ur Inscription 106) Building of (E-gig-par). [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16013	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay tablet. Business document. Date: Year when Sin-igisham became King. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16014	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay cone. Fragmentary. Gudea. Building of the Ziggurat of lagash (SAKI 142, 7) [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16015	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay cone. Fragment (Warad-Sin. Building of E-Temennigur) (Duplicate of Ur Inscription 131) [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16016	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay cone. Fragment. (Warad-Sin. building of E-Temennigur) (see 16015) [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16017	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay cone. Fragmentary: base intact. Sumu-ilu. bulding of Eginabtum (Ur inscription 114) [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16018	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay cone. Fragment, base only. (Libit-Ishtar. Building of E-gig-par) [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16021	31-43-25, 31-43-25	(none)	(none)	Steatite Cylinder seal. Nana son of Gudea,the jeweller. HC.30/I.7. UET 8/2 (hand copied by Legrain) [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16027	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay cone. Fragment (Kudur-Mabug) Restoration of Ga(-nun-makh). (Ur Inscription 123) [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16028	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay cone. Fragment. Warad-Sin buidling of (E-temennigur) (Ur Inscription 131) [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16029	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay Tablet. Business document. Fragment. Date: same as U.16010 [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16030	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay Tablet. Business document. One face missing. HC.30/VII, 1. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16031	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay Tablet [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]

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Media Title	Title	Label	Author	Omeka Label
Woolley's Field Note Cards	Woolley's Field Note Cards	Ur_Notes_v2_p307	Ur_Notes_v2_p307	(none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards	Woolley's Field Note Cards	Ur_Notes_v2_p308	Ur_Notes_v2_p308	(none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards	Woolley's Field Note Cards	Ur_Notes_v2_p309	Ur_Notes_v2_p309	(none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards	Woolley's Field Note Cards	Ur_Notes_v2_p310	Ur_Notes_v2_p310	(none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards	Woolley's Field Note Cards	Ur_Notes_v2_p311	Ur_Notes_v2_p311	(none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards	Woolley's Field Note Cards	Ur_Notes_v2_p312	Ur_Notes_v2_p312	(none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards	Woolley's Field Note Cards	Ur_Notes_v2_p313	Ur_Notes_v2_p313	(none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards	Woolley's Field Note Cards	Ur_Notes_v2_p314	Ur_Notes_v2_p314	(none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards	Woolley's Field Note Cards	Ur_Notes_v2_p315	Ur_Notes_v2_p315	(none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards	Woolley's Field Note Cards	Ur_Notes_v2_p316	Ur_Notes_v2_p316	(none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards	Woolley's Field Note Cards	Ur_Notes_v2_p317	Ur_Notes_v2_p317	(none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards	Woolley's Field Note Cards	Ur_Notes_v2_p318	Ur_Notes_v2_p318	(none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards	Woolley's Field Note Cards	Ur_Notes_v2_p319	Ur_Notes_v2_p319	(none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards	Woolley's Field Note Cards	Ur_Notes_v2_p325	Ur_Notes_v2_p325	(none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards	Woolley's Field Note Cards	Ur_Notes_v2_p326	Ur_Notes_v2_p326	(none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards	Woolley's Field Note Cards	Ur_Notes_v2_p327	Ur_Notes_v2_p327	(none)