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)
6133 (none) (none) B16294 Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Upper and lower band showing gazelles passing sacred tree. About 3000 BC. E.
6004 (none) 1927,0527.185 (none) Cylinder seal. Half of light pink marble row of human figures with small animals between and above. Sun god defeating his enemy. About BC 2600.
6131 (none) 1927,0527.188 (none) Cylinder seal. Grey steatite. Weatherworn.
6232 (none) 1927,0527.179 (none) Cylinder seal. Grey steatite. Kneeling man between two rampant lions. A standing hero seizes one lion by the tail. About BC 2200.
6002 (none) (none) B16287 Cylinder seal. Grey steatite. Below, figure Gilgamesh? prostrate above, offering to Ea, heraldic animals, etc. c. BC 2300. ? Brick. VII
6253 (none) (none) B16290 Cylinder seal. Grey limestone? Unpierced. Gilgamesh fighting with the bull. About BC 2500.
6132 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Worshipping tree of life? B.
6086 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Subject? Contest of men and animals. About BC 2400. B.
6084 (none) 1927,0527.180 (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Reception scene, Nannar, minor god and votary. 2 lines of inscription. Inscription: Lugal-ezen. Son of Lugal. About BC 2400 E. 3rd Dynasty of Ur.
6538 (none) 1927,0527.192 (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Rampant lion attacked by two hunters.
6479 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Presentation to seated god. Crescent on pole. About BC 2200. B.
6160 (none) (none) B16286, B16286 Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Not fully paved. Lion attacked by two men 2 lines of defaced inscription. About BC 2100. Required for Vol. VII written.
6085 35-1-610 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Nannar, swan, minor god, votary, swan and scorpion. About BC 2400. E.
6136 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Nannar, minor god, grotesque figure and votary and Nergal weapon. B.
6261 (none) (none) B16314 Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Nannar, Minor god and votary. Inscription doubtful. About BC 2200. [drawing]
6105 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Minor god introducing votary carrying gazelle as gift to major god who holds a wand in his left hand. Inscription: dNin-suh sukkal-zid-anna gispa-azag su-du. To Nin-Suh. the pure messenger of heaven carrying the bright scepter. B
6506 (none) 1927,0527.200 (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Lion between two fighting men. Sbout BC 2400.
6271 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Inscription, winged dragon and winged dragon attacked by Enkidu and Gilgamesh. :u-ab-ba (?) spm pf : dpu-sag. About 2400 BC. E.
6275 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Fragmentary. Worshipper led by hand. Samas-pa-e son of Abbakalla; IIIrd Ur Dynasty. B.
6268 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Fragmentary. Worshipper introduced by an assistant goddess to a god like Shamash stepping forward and armed with a sword and scimitar. Ma-au-sum son of Ludingi-ra? About BC 2100. B.
6252 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Fragmentary. God Martu carrying club. Gilgamesh with spouting vase. Naked votary of Ishtar. Turtle. Inscription dMartu. B.
6122 (none) (none) B16282 Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Broken at one end, subject mostly obliterated.
6165 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Broken at bottom. Minor god, votary and inscription. Worshipper led by hand unto a standing armed (?) god- crescent. Du-( ) son of Sag-da( ). About BC 2300. B.
6255 (none) (none) B16306 Cylinder seal. Black hematite. Shamash with horned mitre and notched sword in hand steps on a crouching bull a worshipper brings a kid as an offering. The god Martu with a short club in hand, short garment and a round woolen turban is followed by a worshipper with clasped hands, and a servant. Two small figures - a bifrons with clasped hands and a nude servant with libation cone in hand. About BC 1900. E.
6130 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black diorite. Incompletely pierced. Spread eagle siezing two lions. B.

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

Media Media Title Title Label Author Omeka Label
Ur Excavations VI; The Ur III Period Ur Excavations VI; The Ur III Period 1974 Woolley, Leonard (none)
U6257 Catalog Card U6257 Catalog Card 1926 Woolley et al (none)
UPM Field Photo numbers UPM Field Photo numbers (none) (none) (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)
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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.