Description (Catalog Card): Animal head. Ass? Grotesque. Dark greenish clay. Fragmentary. Originally a pot ornament in high relief. Fragment of rounded body of pot to which it was attached still remains. Found with ovoid granite weight U7508 and pot types CCLXXVII, CCXIV 2     
Find Context (Catalog Card): Against wall of ruined early larsa corbelled bench grave NE side of EM.      
Measurement (Catalog Card): H. 0037, greatest W. of ears 003     
U Number: 7509     
Museum: British Museum      
Object Type: Figural Objects >> Figurines >> Zoomorphic      
Season Number: 05: 1926-1927      
Object Type: Vessels/Containers 1     
Description (Modern): Fired clay fragment of animal figurine from globular vessel; hand-modelled; back legs of animal protrudes from vessel fragment.1     
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Clay >> Fired 1     
Museum Number (BM Big Number): 138351     
Museum Number (BM Registration Number): 1935,0113.7541     
Measurement (Weight): 151     
Measurement (Length): 321     
Measurement (Height): 351     
[1] Data collected by British Museum research team.
[2] Woolley's description

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Location Context Title Context Description Description (Modern)
EM Site | EM The excavation area abbreviation EM stands for Extra-Mural because this area lies outside of the southwest Temenos Wall. H.R. Hall investigated a portion of the high ground at this site (his Area A) in 1919, finding the remains of domestic structures. Taylor had also cut a trench here in 1853. Woolley first tested the ground early in 1926 (season 4) and then dug more completely in season 5, concentrating on about 60x40 meters of space and excavating to a depth of approximately 5 meters from the surface. He dug through Kassite and other late remains that were particularly fragmentary. He reported two Kassite houses (which he dubbed High House and Hill House) that were complete enough to map, and eventually uncovered twelve houses of the Isin-Larsa/Old Babylonian period. There were many graves beneath the floors and tablets were also relatively common. Most of the tablets have to do with the business of the temple, so the houses here probably belonged to temple workers. Woolley named the streets he found in areas EM and AH. He felt that by naming the streets he could more easily identify any particular house, giving them numbers along the street with odd numbers on one side and even on the other. Many of the street names recur in the English city of Bath, where Woolley owned a house. The northern portion of area EM ('Quality Lane' on Woolley's map) was excavated as area DP in season 4. This was higher ground than much of the rest of EM and is mapped with only partial houses that are not published in any detail. The houses of EM are more completely published, but their various phases of construction and rebuilding are not detailed. The domestic space represented by these houses likely continued eastward into area EH in the Isin-Larsa/Old Babylonian and Kassite periods, then was cut through and partly destroyed by the foundations of the Neo-Babylonian temenos wall. (none)
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Woolley's Catalog Cards Woolley's Catalog Cards Card -- BM ID:194 Box:35 Page:9 Card -- BM ID:194 Box:35 Page:9 (none)
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