9363
| Description (Catalog Card): | Stone vase, translucent white calcite, type 73. Found loose in soil. [card seems to be a replacement]2 |
| Find Context (Catalog Card): | SM inside the Cyrus Gate of this Temenos |
| Material (Catalog Card): | Calcite3 |
| [1] U.9361-U.9365 were duplicated with the duplicates assigned to tablets from Season 5. They were originally part of U.7809, a large group of tablet fragments found in Area SM that were later separated and given individual numbers (Jacobsen AJA 57:128). |
| [2] Woolley's description |
| [3] Material as described by Woolley |
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| Location | Context Title | Context Description | Description (Modern) |
|---|---|---|---|
| SM | The meaning of this excavation area abbreviation is not clear, but its location is known to be immediately southeast of the giparu (KP) extending to the ehursag (HT) in the east. Badly preserved remains of a building were found here, distinct from the giparu. On a tentative reconstruction of the ground plan, Woolley suggests the original structure measured some 35x40 meters. The building remains date to the Isin-Larsa/Old Babylonian period and many small tablets recording business transactions were found within. T.C. Mitchell, editing the UE 7 volume published after Woolley's death, notes that many of these tablets actually date to the reigns of Shulgi and Amar-Sin. According to Woolley, some of the tablets were twisted together as if in the process of being recycled to reuse their clay for new tablets. He also suggests, very tentatively and based only on a few minor and out-of-place bricks, that this building was originally a temple to Nin-Ezen. | (none) |
- 1 Location
| Media | Media Title | Title | Label | Author | Omeka Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Ur Excavations II; The Royal Cemetery | Ur Excavations II; The Royal Cemetery | 1934 | Woolley, Leonard | (none) |
| Woolley's Catalog Cards | Woolley's Catalog Cards | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:41 Page:258 | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:41 Page:258 | (none) |
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References
Woolley, Leonard. (1934) Ur Excavations II; The Royal Cemetery, Oxford: Oxford University Press.