15749 | 31-16-914

Description (Catalog Card): Terracotta plaque. 2 figures, full face - in high relief. A bearded male deity and a goddess wearing high horned headdress, earrings? Necklace consisting of 3 strings of beads, and pleated coat which leaves right shoulder exposed. Right arm of goddess rests against left shoulder of god. Fragment: head only of god, goddess missing below waist.3     
Find Context (Catalog Card): Brought in from Diqdiqqeh     
Material (Catalog Card): Clay4     
Measurement (Catalog Card): W. 62mm     
U Number: 15749     
Museum: University of Pennsylvania Museum      
Object Type: Figural Objects >> Plaques/Reliefs      
Season Number: 08: 1929-1930      
Description (Modern): Relief plaque of a god and goddess. Bearded god wearing horned helmet, broken below neck. Goddess with horned helmet, necklace, and a flounced robe over one shoulder. One hand is on the man's shoulder other crossed under chest. Broken below arm. Reddish brown clay. U number on object.      
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Clay >> Fired >> Terracotta      
Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number): 31-16-914     
Measurement (X): 62     
Measurement (Y): 58     
Measurement (Z): 18     
[1] Iconography tagged by Penn Museum research team.
[2] Technique tagged by Penn Museum research team.
[3] Woolley's description
[4] Material as described by Woolley

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Diqdiqqeh | DQ Essentially a suburb of the ancient city, this area is located about 2 km to the northeast of the ziggurat of Ur. The precise extents of Diqdiqqeh were never defined, but Woolley referred to it as the low ground between the main railway line and the branch that went to Nasiriyeh. The train lines no longer run in the same place they did in Woolley's day, but Corona images allow us to recreate their paths. This makes the general boundaries west, south, and east somewhat known but how far it stretched north is not completely clear. From the first season workers walking across this area picked up surface finds and brought them to Woolley. At that time the location did not have a fixed name in Woolley's mind and thus first season references sometimes say 'near the railway' or 'near Munshid's water engine.' In the second season Woolley decided to investigate more systematically, but after two days of excavation he decided there was not enough remaining architecture to reward further work. Instead, he continued to allow the workers to gather finds over the next ten seasons, and many later catalog cards state "brought in: Diqdiqqeh" The finds from Diqdiqqeh indicate that the ancient suburb played a role in manufacturing and perhaps in commerce. Canals seem to have met in the area and boats may have unloaded goods here. Many figurines, tools, moulds and other crafting items are among the finds, suggesting that Diqdiqqeh may have been an industrial area away from the main habitation. The so-called Treasury of Sin-Iddinam was also excavated in this general area in season 5. In the Antiquaries Journal of January 1925, Woolley described Diqdiqqeh as follows: “A mile and a half NE. of the ziggurat, between the main railway line and the Nasiriyah branch, there is a patch of low-lying ground, occasionally cultivated, which the natives call Diqdiqqeh... a happy hunting-ground for treasure-seekers, and I took advantage of this fact to collect from the natives the scattered antiquities which they might bring to light.” (none)
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Field Photographs Field Photographs (none) (none) (none)
Leon Legrain Note Card Leon Legrain Note Card (none) (none) (none)
Woolley's Catalog Cards Woolley's Catalog Cards Card -- BM ID:194 Box:63 Page:165 Card -- BM ID:194 Box:63 Page:165 (none)
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