EH Site | EH

Context Title: EH Site | EH     
Context Name (Excavation): E-Hur-Sag1     
Context Name (Publication): EH Site     
Context Description: Area EH is located within the Neo-Babylonian temenos wall south of the giparu. There are many other area designations given to parts of this space (such as DP and LR), but EH overall refers to the interior extent of the SW temenos wall from the south corner almost to the Nebuchadnezzar gate and extending east to the line of Pit F. Walls in the area were scattered and difficult to follow, so Woolley established a grid covering at least 55x100 meters in 5x5 squares. The grid is not well documented but publication shows that Woolley began numbers to the east, increasing to the west, and letters to the south, increasing to the north; square 1,A therefore sits in the SE corner -- 11,T in the NW. The abbreviation EH stands for E-Hur-sag but the building of that name does not lie within this excavation zone. Woolley did not believe that the building to the east of this area (partially dug by H.R. Hall in 1919) was the e-hur-sag, the palace of Shulgi, despite bricks with the inscription of the building being found there. Instead he called that building Hall's Temple (HT) and sought the palace in many other places inside the temenos. He eventually conceded that HT was indeed the e-hur-sag and published EH without reference to the abbreviation's original meaning. The area Woolley called EH was the area Hall called the 'tomb mound' because it was relatively high ground in which he found a number of graves. Woolley showed that these were the remains of graves beneath the floors of houses dating from the Isin-Larsa to Kassite periods. EH in this time was likely an extension of the domestic area EM. In the Ur III period there appear to have been larger public buildings here, but their remains were spotty at best. Tablets from this area and area EM show that the residents of the domestic quarter in the Isin-Larsa/Old Babylonian period were likely temple workers.     
Season Number: 03: 1924-1925      
Season Number: 04: 1925-1926      
[1] named for the ehursag but does not contain that building itself

Objects: EH Site | EH Export: JSON - XML - CSV

Object U Number Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) Museum Number (BM Registration Number) Museum Number (UPM B-number) Description (Catalog Card)
6523 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta boat. Miniature. B.
6787 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta Boat. [drawing] B
6514B (none) (none) (none) Terracotta box. Square. Cracked.
6251 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Female with hands clustered beneath breast; flowing headdress running down at back. Broken at legs. B.
6534 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Fragment. Head missing. Seated figure clothed in long flaring cloak, hands clasped over breast. U shaped collar, hair represented by bearded globules, flowing down over beard. B.
6280 (none) (none) B16257 Terracotta figurine. Fragmentary lower half only. Male figure in relief, profile. Wearing long flowing garment fringed. Tassel hangs down left side. 3rd Dynasty? E. [drawing 1:1]
6527 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Fragmentary. Bearded man holding sheath in left hand. B. [drawing 1:1]
6497 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Hand modeled. Fragmentary. Primitive head, nose beak shaped, left arm ending in a stump, right arm missing, feet lost. Figure is entirely covered by long garment with thick embroidered band U-shaped in front, V-shaped behind. On it 4 round clay pellets one on either shoulder, one in front, one behind. Eyes also represented by pellet. Side of garment sharply modeled below waist, traces of modeling on waist. Hole pierced through middle of figure. B. [drawing]
6231 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Upper half lost. Lower half of nude female wearing loin cloth on right small altar with horns? B.
6264 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Upper half of figure lost. Flounced right-hand outstretched hanging down along side body remains of foot. B. [drawing 1:1]
6262 (none) (none) B16263 Terracotta fragment. Bearded male figure. Hands clasped below breast. Flowing headdress running down at back. Lower half of body lost. Traces of garment round waist. E. [drawing 1:1]
6263 (none) 1927,0527.231 (none) Terracotta fragment. Bearded male figure. Hands clasped in front of breast, braided hair, flounced cloak running over left shoulder. Eyes, mouth, ears, nose pronounced. E. [drawing 1:1]
6267 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta fragment. Nude female carrying a vase in what is probably a wicker basket? [drawing 1:1]
6528 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta mask - male. Fragmentary. Back of head left ear lost. Ear, nose and outline of face very pronounced giving impression of caricature. [drawing 1:1]
6544 (none) 1927,0527.247 (none) Terracotta pig. E.
6419 (none) (none) B16276 Terracotta pig? E. [height measurement is preceded by head to ears unclear if the measurement is meant to relate to the note] [drawing 1:1]
6540 (none) (none) (none) Tool. Stone. Black. Oval shaped. Tapering neck. [drawing 1:1]
6233 (none) (none) B16258 Triumphant warrior wearing loin cloth and wielding curved club in right hand treads on defeated enemy with left foot and holds shield and spears in his left hand. Head bearded. E. [drawing 1:1]
6155B (none) (none) (none) Two clay cones. Drab and unbaked. 2 large oblong cavities hollowed into sides possibly as grips? E.
6155A (none) (none) (none) Two clay cones. Drab and unbaked. 2 large oblong cavities hollowed into sides possibly as grips? E. [drawing 1:2]
6281 (none) (none) (none) Unbaked clay tablet. Uninscribed, ready to receive inscription. Rectangular, oblong, one side slightly convex, one side flat. E.
(none) (none) (none) B16650.16 unknown
(none) (none) (none) B16246 unknown
6079 (none) (none) (none) Veined mace head. Serpentine? B.
6514A (none) (none) (none) Weight. Black hematite. Cylinder shaped. Type III.

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Media Media Title Title Label Author Omeka Label
UPM Field Photo numbers UPM Field Photo numbers (none) (none) (none)
U6257 Catalog Card U6257 Catalog Card 1926 Woolley et al (none)
Ur Excavations IV; The Early Periods Ur Excavations IV; The Early Periods 1955 Woolley, L. (none)
Ur Excavations VI; The Ur III Period Ur Excavations VI; The Ur III Period 1974 Woolley, Leonard (none)
Ur Excavations VII; The Old Babylonian Period Ur Excavations VII; The Old Babylonian Period 1976 Woolley, L. and M. Mallowan (none)
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References

Woolley, Leonard. (1974) Ur Excavations VI; The Ur III Period, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Woolley et al. (1926) U6257 Catalog Card, Unpublished.

UPM Field Photo numbers, .

Woolley, L. . (1955) Ur Excavations IV; The Early Periods, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Woolley, L. and M. Mallowan . (1976) Ur Excavations VII; The Old Babylonian Period, Oxford: Oxford University Press.