Technique: Manufacture >> Molded >> Modeled 1     
Description (Catalog Card): Clay model of animal intestines? Roughly made out of crumbly and lightly baked creamish clay. [drawing]2     
Find Context (Catalog Card): On Nabonidus pavement inside NW gate by Ziggurat front     
Material (Catalog Card): Clay3     
Measurement (Catalog Card): ht. 005 width 006 length 007     
U Number: 772     
Museum: British Museum      
Season Number: 01: 1922-1923      
Object Type: Figural Objects >> Figurines >> Zoomorphic 1     
Description (Modern): Clay model of intestines(?). Possibly a crude rendition of a rams head.1     
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Clay >> Fired >> Terracotta      
Museum Number (BM Big Number): 116532     
Museum Number (BM Registration Number): 1923,1110.121     
Measurement (Weight): 981     
Measurement (Length): 601     
Measurement (Width): 561     
[1] Data collected by British Museum research team.
[2] Woolley's description
[3] Material as described by Woolley

Locations: 772 | 1923,1110.121 Export: JSON - XML - CSV

Location Context Title Context Description Description (Modern)
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: 772 | 1923,1110.121 Export: JSON - XML - CSV

Media Media Title Title Label Author Omeka Label
Ur Excavations IX; The Neo-Babylonian and Persian Periods Ur Excavations IX; The Neo-Babylonian and Persian Periods 1962 Woolley, L. and Mallowan, Max (none)
Woolley's Catalog Cards Woolley's Catalog Cards Card -- BM ID:194 Box:24 Page:22 Card -- BM ID:194 Box:24 Page:22 (none)
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