Description (Catalog Card): Figurine. Fragment, head and shoulders only; drab clay, bearded figure, the cap and body covered with a green glaze. [drawing 1:1]2     
Find Context (Catalog Card): Ur. PD     
Material (Catalog Card): Clay3     
Measurement (Catalog Card): H. 49mm [L.49mm, W.30mm based on 1:1 drawing]     
U Number: 1388     
Museum: British Museum      
Season Number: 02: 1923-1924      
Object Type: Figural Objects >> Figurines >> Anthropomorphic 1     
Description (Modern): Baked clay head and shoulders of male figure with green glaze.1     
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Clay >> Fired >> Terracotta      
Museum Number (BM Big Number): 116920     
Museum Number (BM Registration Number): 1924,0920.181     
Measurement (Weight): 191     
Measurement (Height): 481     Broken above waist
Measurement (Width): 321     Across chest
Measurement (Thickness): 161     Across chest
[1] Data collected by British Museum research team.
[2] Woolley's description
[3] Material as described by Woolley

Locations: 1388 | 1924,0920.181 Export: JSON - XML - CSV

Location Context Title Context Description Description (Modern)
Great Nanna Courtyard | PD The meaning of this two-letter designation is unclear. It may derive from Woolley's search for Shulgi's palace and may thus stand for Palace of Dungi. Woolley came to realize, however, that it was an enormous courtyard surrounded by rooms, and at times in the excavation it was simply referred to as the Ziggurat Courtyard. The path through the court led to the ziggurat terrace and eventually to the temple atop it. The court was likely a gathering place for special occasions of worship to the moon god (whose name Woolley read Nannar, but which we read today as Nanna). Therefore, Woolley eventually dubbed this space the Great Nannar Courtyard. Area PD is the large space to the east of the ziggurat terrace, substantially lower in elevation than the base of the ziggurat. It had many floors over many periods. It consisted of a large paved courtyard (some 50 x 75 meters) surrounded by rooms that may have been used for storage. Because of indentations in some of the wall faces, Woolley believed there was once an inset wooden colonnade along some of the walls. (none)
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Media: 1388 | 1924,0920.181 Export: JSON - XML - CSV

Media Media Title Title Label Author Omeka Label
Leon Legrain Note Card Leon Legrain Note Card (none) (none) (none)
Woolley's Catalog Cards Woolley's Catalog Cards Card -- BM ID:194 Box:26 Page:61 Card -- BM ID:194 Box:26 Page:61 (none)
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