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 |
| Object | U Number | Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) | Museum Number (BM Registration Number) | Museum Number (UPM B-number) | Description (Catalog Card) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 6476 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay bird. Drab. Fragmentary. Eyes rendered by clay pellets. B. [drawing 1:1] |
| 6478 | (none) | (none) | B16349 | Bull pendant. White shell, resting on flat base, one side only shaped, other side flat. Body in profile, head full face. See photograph 555 [unclear if this is photo or reference]. E. [drawing] | |
| 6479 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Presentation to seated god. Crescent on pole. About BC 2200. B. |
| 6484 | (none) | (none) | B16613 | Clay vase. Light drab. Flat rim. Type CCXXV. Variant. Flat rim. =RC.16 or 243. | |
| 6486 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Miniature bull pendant. Alabaster. Greenish yellow. B. [drawing 1:1] |
| 6490 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bronze pin. B. |
| 6492 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bronze pencil? B. |
| 6493 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bronze pin. Slightly curved below. B. |
| 6494 | (none) | (none) | B16416 | Bronze pin. Spiral top. | |
| 6495 | (none) | (none) | (none) | 2 fossilized fish bones. |
| 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] |
| 6499 | (none) | (none) | B16297 | Cylinder seal Pink marble or diorite Piece of copper wire mounting inside Four animals. Sheep or goats - two of which are crossed Two scorpions. L 002 diam 0015 About BC 3100. E. | |
| 6500 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Seal. Alabaster : rectangular. Flat one side, pyramid shaped on the other. Early Sumerian Figure, seated on an [reference to X shaped miniature sketch] shaped throne, and holding a drinking cup [miniature sketch in form of inverted triangle]- He is bare headed. Before 3000 BC? B. |
| 6505 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bronze pin. Hole through top. B. |
| 6507 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Pin bronze. B. |
| 6508 | (none) | (none) | B16417 | Pin bronze. Triangular in shape. E | |
| 6510 | (none) | (none) | B16409 | Pin Bronze. E. | |
| 6511 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay vase. Light drab. Type [XX crossed out] 704. [=RC.226 crossed out] =L. |
| 6513 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Terracotta boat. Hole pierced through top of prow. Cf. U.6478 |
| 6514A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Weight. Black hematite. Cylinder shaped. Type III. |
| 6514B | (none) | (none) | (none) | Terracotta box. Square. Cracked. |
| 6515 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Red clay bowl. Fragment. Stamped decoration below rim, triangles with invested bases above and concentric circles below. |
| 6516 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay vase. Light drab. Type. CCXII. =RC.15; =L. |
| 6518 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay vase. Drab. Type [XX crossed out] 704. [=RC.226 crossed out] =L. |
| 6519A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay vase. Drab. Type LXXIII TEO. Variant (without protruding lip) =RC.129 variant |
| 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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Sibling Locations
AH Site | AH - City Wall | CLW - DP - Dublalmah | LL - Ehursag | HT - EM Site | EM - Enunmah | TTB | ES - ESB - FH - Giparu | KP - Great Nanna Courtyard | PD - Harbor Temple - House 34/1 - House 34/2 - House Site - Kassite Fort - KPS Site | KPS - LT - LW - Mausoleum Site | BC - Neo-Babylonian Housing | NH - NNCF - NTB - P/103 - Palace of Bel-Shalti-Nannar | AD - Pit F - Royal Cemetery | PG - SM - Temenos Wall | TW - TTC - XNCF - Ziggurat Terrace | ZT