Description (Catalog Card): Clay cones of Warad ilSin. To Nin-gal. Warad-sin only patesi like Silli Adad. Restores on the old plan her hous: e id-galu-sub-gu-kalam-ma. Walls destroyed? does not destroy the temenos, but puts (a si-cu-um: Semetic word) Curious name of the temple: house of the canal: the man who raises the land. Cf. Br. 11656: boat of the god of the same canal. E. H.C.1     
Description (Archival): CBS Register: cone of Warad Sin to Ningal. Rebuilds her "e-id-galusubgu-kalamma" In situ in Ningal temple near bathroom.     
Find Context (Catalog Card): Ningal temple     
Material (Catalog Card): Clay2     
U Number: 6338B     
Object Type: Architectural Elements >> Cones      
Museum: University of Pennsylvania Museum      
Season Number: 04: 1925-1926      
Description (Modern): Cone, inscribed     
Description (Modern): Has a P on it.     
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Clay >> Unfired      
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Clay >> Fired      
Museum Number (UPM B-number): B16233     
Measurement (Length): 123.0     
Measurement (Diameter): 130.0     
[1] Woolley's description
[2] 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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Media Media Title Title Label Author Omeka Label
Field Photographs Field Photographs (none) (none) (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)
Ur Excavations VII; The Old Babylonian Period Ur Excavations VII; The Old Babylonian Period 1976 Woolley, L. and M. Mallowan (none)
Woolley's Catalog Cards Woolley's Catalog Cards Card -- BM ID:194 Box:32 Page:51 Card -- BM ID:194 Box:32 Page:51 (none)
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