Door/Gate Sockets

Mesopotamian doors had large wooden posts that extended past the threshhold.  This post rested in the depression of a gate/door socket.  The door then pivoted on this post, and the sokept kept it in place.  The socket was set into the floor, so the top of the socket was aligned with the floor.  Most sockets were inscribed with a dedicatory inscription from the ruler/govenor to a god/goddess recording achievements and building projects.  

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Object	U Number	Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)	Museum Number (BM Registration Number)	Museum Number (UPM B-number)	Description (Catalog Card)
	2749A	(none)	(none)	(none)	(A) Diorite Door-socket.; (B) Copper pole shoe} Both same inscription: Ur Engur, king of Ur, who has bult the house of Nannar. in text: 3rd Dynasty Terrace (13)
	2749B	(none)	(none)	(none)	(A) Diorite Door-socket.; (B) Copper pole shoe} Both same inscription: Ur Engur, king of Ur, who has bult the house of Nannar. in text: 3rd Dynasty Terrace (13)
	(none)	(none)	(none)	(none)	(none)
	901A	(none)	(none)	(none)	(none)
	6354A	(none)	(none)	B16564	(none)
	6354B	(none)	(none)	(none)	(none)
	6364A	(none)	(none)	(none)	(none)
	6364B	(none)	(none)	(none)	(none)
	6364C	(none)	(none)	(none)	(none)
	6364D	(none)	(none)	(none)	(none)
	900	(none)	(none)	(none)	Basalt door-socket. In very bad condition. With inscription of KURIGALZU. Reads "To Nannar, his king, Kurigalzu, who is the servant of the sun-god..." (1) Nannar (2) logal-a-ni-ir. (3)(a) Ku-ri-gal-zu. (4) lu arad Babbar-ra??
	420	(none)	(none)	B15324, B15324	Basalt hinge-socket of GIMIL ILISHU.
	421	(none)	(none)	(none)	Basalt hinge-socket of GIMIL ILISHU.
	422	(none)	(none)	B15323	Basalt hinge-socket of UR-ENGUR.
	423	(none)	(none)	(none)	Basalt hinge-socket of UR-ENGUR.
	424	(none)	(none)	(none)	Basalt hinge-socket of UR-ENGUR. The stone had been cut down and re-used between the Nebuchadnezzar and the Persian periods: its connection with the door was not certain.
	838	(none)	1923,1110.1	(none)	Basalt hinge-stone. In bad condition. Inscribed with the name of GIMILSIN.
	950	(none)	(none)	B15322, B15322	Basalt hinge-stone. Inscribed with name, etc., of KURIGALZU.
	806	(none)	1923,1110.2	(none)	Basalt hinge-stone. Inscribed with name, etc., of NABONIDUS. The fragments of the iron shoe of the door-post are still fixed in the stone.
	901	(none)	(none)	(none)	Basalt impost-stone. Inscription with name, etc., of BURSIN.
	1165	(none)	(none)	B15885	Black stone gate socket, with long but incomplete inscr. running round the side. Beginning and end lost, partly by the breaking off of one side of the stone, partly by flaking away the surface. 42 ll remain, recording the building of an archive-house (dub-la-mah), annexed to the court of justice, by Bur-Sin I, king of Ur. The text ends with blessings and curses upon those who should respect or destroy the king's monument. Photo 147 RI.71
	1727	(none)	(none)	(none)	Black stone, of irregular shape, broken, probably part of a gate socket. On a smoothed surface is a 8 line inscription of Bur-Sin, king of Ur, recording his building of a ge-par for the goddess Nin-gal.
	16312	(none)	(none)	(none)	Bronze socket. Container for wooden door threshold or possibly for holding wooden bar for bolting a door? [drawing]
	3037	(none)	(none)	(none)	Bur-Sin. Door-socket. Blue stone. Flaking off. To Ningal. Builts Gig-par azag. Duplicate of U.3031. In text: Neo-Babylonian period (8).
	16255	(none)	1931,1010.297	(none)	Copper shoe at door-pole. (broken, not complete) cup-shaped, with nails to fix it to the pole end. Found in posistion standing on the brick door-socket in the hinged box.

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