2756
Description (Catalog Card): | Inscribed alabaster vase. Fragment. About BC 2800. H.C. [drawing]1 |
Find Context (Catalog Card): | PDW pver ruins of E. corner of Larsa range |
Material (Catalog Card): | Alabaster2 |
U Number: | 2756 |
Museum: | The National Museum of Iraq |
Object Type: | Vessels/Containers >> Closed Forms >> Jars |
Season Number: | 03: 1924-1925 |
Object Type: | Vessels/Containers |
Culture/Period: | Ur III |
Description (Modern): | Object is not sealed. |
Material: | Inorganic Remains >> Stones and Minerals >> Mineral >> Calcite Group >> Alabaster |
Museum Number (IM Number): | IM 933 |
Museum Number (IM Number): | IM 933 |
Tablet ID Number: | P226158 |
[1] Woolley's description |
[2] Material as described by Woolley |
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Location | Context Title | Context Description | Description (Modern) |
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PDW | The excavation area abbreviation PDW derives from the fact that the area lies to the west of the area designated PD, the Great Nanna Courtyard. Area PDW is on the ziggurat terrace itself, but includes only the north and northeast portion of the terrace since the Great Nanna Courtyard does not extend to the southern ziggurat terrace. The southern terrace was excavated under the abbreviation HD. Some of the finds from either side of the terrace may also be coded ZT. Legrain lists PDW as specifically the deep trench within the Ur-Nammu terrace, but this is almost certainly a reference to PAT, later called Pit K, a pit dug within PDW. Area PDW included the investigation of the Bastion of Warad Sin at the northern corner of the ziggurat terrace and essentially part of the northern temenos wall. This structure was possibly a defensive gate that led onto the terrace in the Isin-Larsa/Old Babylonian period, expanded somewhat in the Kassite. It had thick walls and a potential sally-port gateway. Other structures uncovered here included the Ur III shrine to Nanna and its Neo-Babylonian counterpart as well as various potential storage rooms. Two deep pits were begun here in season 3 and completed in season 8, see area abbreviations Pit K and Pit L. Much other work was done on the northwest terrace in later seasons, particularly 9 and 10. See excavation area abbreviation NCF. | (none) |
- 1 Location
Media | Media Title | Title | Label | Author | Omeka Label |
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Ur Excavations IV; The Early Periods | Ur Excavations IV; The Early Periods | 1955 | Woolley, L. | (none) | |
Ur Excavations Texts I: Royal Inscriptions | Ur Excavations Texts I: Royal Inscriptions | 1928 | Gadd, C.J., Legrain, L., Smith, S., Burrows, E.R. | (none) | |
Woolley's Catalog Cards | Woolley's Catalog Cards | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:28 Page:250 | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:28 Page:250 | (none) |
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Context
Ur >> Ziggurat Terrace | ZT >> PDW
References
Woolley, L. . (1955) Ur Excavations IV; The Early Periods, Oxford: Oxford University Press.