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| Iconography: | Clothing >> Dress >> Flounced Dress 1 |
| Iconography: | Clothing >> Dress >> Pleated Dress 1 |
| Iconography: | Human/zoomorphic >> Female 1 |
| Iconography: | Human/zoomorphic >> Position >> Hands Clasped Below Breasts 1 |
| Iconography: | Furniture >> Chair 1 |
| Technique: | Manufacture >> Molded >> Modeled in the Round 2 |
| Technique: | Manufacture >> Handmade >> Hand Modeled 2 |
| Technique: | Manufacture >> Molded >> Mold Pressed 2 |
| Description (Catalog Card): | Terracotta figurine (fr. of) moulded. Seated on a chair, a female figure wearing a dress from neck to ankles + with full sleeves. The bodice treated in narrow pleats, the skirt in 5 flounces of close pleating, border of smocking (?) round neck. Hands clasped in front of body, head missing. The chair +drapery make a solid front: behind project two stumps to make the relief stand up. [drawing]3 |
| Description (Archival): | Terracotta. moulded plaque.seated goddess. hands clasped. Base. broken.4 |
| Find Context (Catalog Card): | Temenos wall, NW front |
| Material (Catalog Card): | Terracotta5 |
| Measurement (Catalog Card): | actual ht. 0065 |
| U Number: | 645 |
| Museum: | University of Pennsylvania Museum |
| Object Type: | Figural Objects >> Figurines >> Anthropomorphic |
| Season Number: | 01: 1922-1923 |
| Description (Modern): | Molded plaque of a woman sitting on a chair. Hands clasped at waist. Broken above shoulder. Wearing a flounced dress. Reddish clay. U number on object. |
| Material: | Inorganic Remains >> Clay >> Fired >> Terracotta |
| Museum Number (UPM B-number): | B15191 |
| Measurement (X): | 64 |
| Measurement (Y): | 58 |
| Measurement (Z): | 45 |
| [1] Iconography tagged by Penn Museum research team. |
| [2] Technique tagged by Penn Museum research team. |
| [3] Woolley's description |
| [4] CBS Register |
| [5] Material as described by Woolley |
| Location | Context Title | Context Description | Description (Modern) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Temenos Wall | TW | The excavation area abbreviation TW stands for Temenos Wall, a wall that surrounded the ziggurat terrace and its extended sacred space in the northern central portion of the city of Ur through much of its history. The wall may have begun in the Early Dynastic period, as Woolley found some indication of what he believed to be its earliest foundation. There was clearly an Ur III period version that ran south of the giparu and then further southeast to encompass the ehursag. This was the general line of the wall through the Isin-Larsa/Old Babylonian and into the Kassite period, though the Kassites made some changes in the northern portion. Finally, the Neo-Babylonians changed the wall greatly, expanding the area encompassed to the north and south and adding several gateways. The foundations of this later, quite massive, wall often destroyed earlier remains. Woolley explored parts of the temenos wall in many seasons and frequently used the TW abbreviation for the wall in any of its building periods. Other excavation area abbreviations include parts of the temenos, particularly NCF, PDW and BC. The temenos wall built by Urnamma was 6 meters thick and built of mud brick with a baked brick facing. Most of the baked brick had been removed, probably for later building. The Nebuchadnezzar and Nabonidus temenos wall had chambers within it and sported six gates into the temenos area. This area was known as e-gish-nu-gal (Woolley read this e-gish-shir-gal). At least one later interpretation conflates TW with the phrase Town Wall, but the wall surrounding Ur was always referred to as the city wall, (CLW). | (none) |
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| Media | Media Title | Title | Label | Author | Omeka Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | British Museum Photo Negatives | British Museum Photo Negatives | (none) | (none) | (none) |
| Field Photographs | Field Photographs | (none) | (none) | (none) |
| Field Photographs | Field Photographs | GN0070 | GN0070 | (none) | |
| Leon Legrain Note Card | Leon Legrain Note Card | (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:23 Page:145 | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:23 Page:145 | (none) |
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