Description (Catalog Card): Gold leaf. Fragment of very thin metal cut out for inlay with small shield-shaped stones arranged in rows.2     
Find Context (Catalog Card): ZT. In the circular pit of the well, just above the layer of burnt bricks.     
Material (Catalog Card): Gold3     
Measurement (Catalog Card): L. circ. 0075 Width 0025     
U Number: 18358     
Museum: The National Museum of Iraq      
Object Type: Furniture >> Inlays      
Season Number: 11: 1932-1933      
Description (Modern): 'Sheet gold fragment, very thin metal cut into an open-work pattern to be inlaid with small shield-shaped stones arranged in rows...' 1     
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Metal >> Gold      
Museum Number (IM Number): IM 16471     
[1] UE VI, p. 103
[2] Woolley's description
[3] Material as described by Woolley

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Ziggurat Terrace | ZT The excavation area abbreviation ZT stands for Ziggurat Terrace. It was used for any portion of the terrace on which the ziggurat stood, though other more specific abbreviations were also used. For example, the abbreviation PDW refers to the northern side of the terrace, west of the Great Nannar Courtyard (PD), and HD refers to the southern part of the terrace. Early references using the abbreviation ZT refer specifically to excavations along the terrace retaining wall itself. Later references, however, mention specific areas on top the terrace such as the so-called 'boat shrine.' The abbreviation also refers to deep clearing of the terrace fill, particularly on the north side in later excavation seasons, though the abbreviation Zig.31 was most often used for this. Woolley uncovered large areas of the retaining wall that supported the platform known as the ziggurat terrace. He found that it was decorated with large wall cones. These cones bore an inscription of Urnamma but there is evidence that the terrace in some form existed in the Early Dynastic period as well. The Urnamma retaining wall was slanted to support the terrace, was 1.7 meters high, 34 meters wide, and was decorated with 5-meter-wide buttresses about 4 meters apart. The inscribed cones dedicate the terrace to the moon god, Nanna, and show that it was called e-temen-ni-gur, which translates as, "house, foundation platform clad in terror." (Woolley read this e-temen-ni-il). (none)
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Ur Excavations VI; The Ur III Period Ur Excavations VI; The Ur III Period 1974 Woolley, Leonard (none)
Woolley's Catalog Cards Woolley's Catalog Cards Card -- BM ID:194 Box:72 Page:152 Card -- BM ID:194 Box:72 Page:152 (none)
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