Description (Catalog Card): Figurine. Fragment, legs and waist only. Brown clay: modeled. Female figure. [drawing 1:1]2     
Find Context (Catalog Card): Ur. PD [i.e. Great Nannar Courtyard]     
Material (Catalog Card): Clay3     
Measurement (Catalog Card): H. 62mm [L.62mm, W.15mm based on 1:1 drawing]     
U Number: 1405     
Museum: British Museum      
Season Number: 02: 1923-1924      
Object Type: Figural Objects >> Figurines >> Anthropomorphic 1     
Culture/Period: Ubaid      
Description (Modern): Hand made, painted fragment of baked clay female figurine; only remains from chest down; incised lines show division of legs, back and front; incised pubic triangle with black painted hip-belt with vertical streaks of black paint above.1     
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Clay >> Fired >> Terracotta      
Museum Number (BM Big Number): 117136     
Museum Number (BM Registration Number): 1924,0920.385     
Measurement (Height): 631     Broken at both the top and the bottom
Measurement (Width): 161     Across hips
Measurement (Thickness): 161     Across hips
Start Date: 5900BC1     
End Date: 4000BC1     
[1] Data collected by British Museum research team.
[2] Woolley's description
[3] Material as described by Woolley

Locations: 1405 | 1924,0920.385 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: 1405 | 1924,0920.385 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)
Woolley's Catalog Cards Woolley's Catalog Cards Card -- BM ID:194 Box:26 Page:86 Card -- BM ID:194 Box:26 Page:86 (none)
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