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)
6048 (none) (none) (none) Earthenware pot. Type CVI [CXXI, CXCVI, and LV have been crossed out]
6042 (none) (none) (none) Earthenware pot. Type CVI [CXXVI crossed out]
6043 (none) (none) (none) Earthenware vase. Same as U.6042. Type CVI.
6044 (none) (none) (none) Earthenware vase. Type CCXII.
6045 (none) (none) B16610 Earthenware vase. Type CCXIII.
6117 (none) (none) (none) Flat clay bowl. Drab. Type variant. Not typed.
6051 (none) (none) B16239 Flat earthenware bowl. Drab clay. Type CCIX.
6529 (none) (none) (none) Flint tool. Fragmentary. Leaf shaped. E.
6300 (none) (none) B16217, B16217 Foundation TABLET of SHULGI. Soapstone. Together with Copper Figure U.6301. "To dDim-tab-ba, his lady, Shulgi, the "mighty hero, the king of Ur, the king of "Sumer and Akkad, has built her house." CF. U.6157, U.6302, U.6304. E. Text: Dim-tab-ba Temple (2) E
6304 (none) (none) (none) Foundation TABLET of SHULGI. Soapstone. Together with copper figure U.6303. Shrine of dDim-tab-ba. Same inscription as U.6300 to U.6303, U.6157. Text: Dim-tab-ba (2). B.
6302 (none) (none) (none) Foundation TABLET of SHULGI. Soapstone. Together with copper figure U.6303. Shrine of dDim-tab-ba. Same inscription as U.6300, U.6157. B. Text: Dim-tab-ba (2). B.
6056 (none) 1927,0527.40 (none) Fragment for incrustation. Black steatite. Part of Kaunakes skirt from human figure 5 and part of 6th row of flounces grooves behind for attachment. [drawing 1:1]
6333 (none) (none) B16518, B16518 Fragment of alabaster vase of Rimush after plundering of (Bara)-ah-sumki and Elam. Cf. SAKI p. 162 (c) H.C. E.
6168 (none) (none) (none) Fragment of baked clay bowl. Light drab. Upper portion only. Incised criss cross markings below rim, made out of wet clay.
6161 (none) 1927,0527.62 (none) Fragment of mace head? Drab stone. Decorated by incised band with [image of chevron] shaped marks running from top and bottom, groove running through interior to hold mace. E. [drawing 1:1]
6029 (none) (none) (none) Fragment of statue. White limestone. One side of bottom of skirt; showing 3 flounces. B. text: 9H(3) [drawing 1:2]
15613 (none) (none) (none) Fragments. A large TO painted pot. Broken into small pieces and probably far from complete: painted black on light whitish drab. Shape unknown.
6080 (none) (none) (none) Frog. Black steatite. Chipped at rear.
6078 (none) (none) B16373 Frog. White frit. E. [drawing]
6124 (none) (none) (none) Gaming board. Fragmentary. Greyish red clay. Specially constructed for game and not as usual incised on ordinary building brick after baking. Dimension of squares 20mm by 20mm. E. [drawing]
6250 (none) (none) (none) Head of alabaster jug? Ur. [drawing]
6782 (none) (none) B16228 Head of Ningal? Alabaster. White. Eyes inlaid in lapis lazuli. E. [illegible, possibly resinous] cast in BM 118564.
6138 (none) (none) (none) Lamp holder? White shell. Shell shaped with curved handle. B.
6719 (none) 1948,0423.360 (none) Large clay tablet. 12 columns (6 face, 6 reverse) Total of goods of the craftsmen (smith, cobblers, carpenters, tailors, etc.) Received by Abuwagar the diviner: authority of Warad ilNannar - From month Segurkud - to month Ezen dUnugal. Year when for Ibi-Sin king of Ur, beloved of the heart of Nannar, the Euphrates over flood. H.C. Baghdad. Text:9H(2)
7138A (none) (none) B16653 Larnax grave. Light drab. Broken. 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.