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

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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)
6218 (none) (none) (none) Clay vase. Light drab. Type [CLXXII crossed off] 656. =L.
6511 (none) (none) (none) Clay vase. Light drab. Type [XX crossed out] 704. [=RC.226 crossed out] =L.
6516 (none) (none) (none) Clay vase. Light drab. Type. CCXII. =RC.15; =L.
6520 (none) (none) (none) Clay vase. Miniature. 2 holes pierced through neck.
6466 (none) 1927,0527.285 (none) Clay vase. Miniature. Light drab. Type CCXXV (miniature) =RC16 or 243.
6524 (none) (none) B16608 Clay vase. Miniature. Type LVII.
6198 (none) (none) (none) Clay vase. Neck broken. Round flate base. Traces of black paint round rim, at below neck and above . Type CCXXXI. =RC.69. =L.
6014 (none) (none) (none) Clay vase. Part of rim and upper portion of pot broken. Type XX. B31. =1L.81
6040 (none) (none) (none) Clay vase. Reddish. 3 incised parallel lines below rim. 2 incised parallel lines above base. Round base. Misshapen. CCXIV =RC.56
6241 (none) (none) (none) Clay vase. Reddish. Long stem. Type CCXXV. =RC.16.
6041 (none) (none) (none) Clay vase. Reddish. XLIII, Type XLIV [XLIII seems to be correcting XLIV]
6015 (none) (none) (none) Clay vase. Rim broken in two places. Type XIX =1L.115
6033 (none) (none) (none) Clay vase. Type CCXI = RC185. 664 [Later note, unknown reference] Vol VII
6443 (none) (none) (none) Clay vase. Type CCXLI =P.125. In album. [drawing]
6541 (none) (none) (none) Clay vase. Type LVII. =RC.75
6270 (none) (none) (none) Clay vase. Type LXII. TEO (variant) curved lip. =RC.109. =L
6330A (none) (none) (none) Cone of Libit-Ishtar. Fragment. Usual inscription. BB
14168 (none) (none) (none) Cone, Gudea to dNina (e. dE[ngur- ka-lum]) = U... (hand copy 1927/8, no.5)
6533 (none) (none) (none) Copper bar.
6236 (none) (none) (none) Copper bowl. Broken. Thin pieces of gold plate found within. Round base. Misshapen - front of rim lost. E. [drawing 1:3]
6496 (none) 1927,0527.98 (none) Copper dagger. [drawing 1:2]
6784 (none) 1927,0527.117 (none) Copper dragon's head. Broken below neck. Text: 9H(3). [drawing]
6305 (none) (none) B16216, B16216 Copper FIGURE of SHULGI. Together with soapstone Foundation Tablet U.6304- Shrine of dDim-tab-ba. Same inscription cf. U.6300 to U.6304; U.6157-8. E. Text: Dim-tab-ba Temple (2).
6301 (none) (none) (none) Copper FIGURE of SHULGI. Together with the soapstone foundation TABLET U.6300- Same inscription. Shrine of dDim-tab-ba. Represents a shaven and shorn Sumerian carrying a basket on his head - wears a loin cloth. CF. U.6158, U.6303. (Also another not mentioned. (B) Text: Dim-tab-ba Temple (2)
6303 (none) 1927,0527.93 (none) Copper FIGURE of SHULGI. Together with the Soapstone Foundation Tablet U.6302- Shrine of dDim-tab-ba. Same inscription on both. CF. U.6158, U.6300. Text: Dim-tab-ba Temple (2). E.

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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 VII; The Old Babylonian Period Ur Excavations VII; The Old Babylonian Period 1976 Woolley, L. and M. Mallowan (none)
Ur Excavations VI; The Ur III Period Ur Excavations VI; The Ur III Period 1974 Woolley, Leonard (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.