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)
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]
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]
6166 (none) (none) B16248 Minute baked clay jar. In form of almond. [drawing 1:1]
(none) (none) (none) B16246 unknown
6051 (none) (none) B16239 Flat earthenware bowl. Drab clay. Type CCIX.
6019 (none) (none) B16231, B16231 Clay foundation of Ur Nammu. Stem only. Chipped. Same inscription as U.2701, U.202. Records digging of a canal called Canal of Ur. P. Text: 9H(3)
6782 (none) (none) B16228 Head of Ningal? Alabaster. White. Eyes inlaid in lapis lazuli. E. [illegible, possibly resinous] cast in BM 118564.
6113 (none) (none) B16224 Round stone lid. Green. Chipped. E. [drawing]
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
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).
6156 (none) (none) B16211, B16211 White alabaster bowl fragment. Incribed round belly. Part of ring base and belly alone remaining. Hole in in side close to ring base. Not required for Vols. IV, V, VI, VII. E.
6332 (none) (none) B16208, B16208 Alabaster cup with inscription. Fragment. To the god A-Si(g) (who pours/gives water)
6001 (none) (none) (none) Rectangular label. Black steatite. Inscribed with text in 6 vertical columns on side, 8 on other. Pierced vertices. Dated Shilgi year 36 (=48). Basket of tablets: barley issued from the wood-store; cash from the income office, barley balance presented to the farmer; sesame seed; thread; dates brought in and balance of interest. There are 11 clay tablets, 1 total of gifts. The 13th month after the building of Duramati. H.C. In text: 9h3 [drawing 1:1]
6003 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. White shell. Human figure, animals and inscription. Inscription(?) [reference to drawing] Perhaps: Lugal = king?
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.
6007 (none) 1927,0527.43 (none) Duck weight grey steatite head and tail slightly chipped. Type VI.
6008 (none) (none) (none) Duck weight. Black hematite.
6010 (none) (none) (none) Weight? Ovoid, flattened on one side, of grey pebble. Type I.
6011 (none) 1927,0527.54 (none) Weight? Black diorite egg-shaped with sharply pointed end. Type I? [drawing 1:1]
6012 (none) (none) (none) Pin holder? Metal bronze. Triangular. Rounded at top and base. [drawing 1:1]
6013 (none) (none) (none) Baked brick game board square incisions on one face. Design scratched in after baking. [design 1:2]
6014 (none) (none) (none) Clay vase. Part of rim and upper portion of pot broken. Type XX. B31. =1L.81
6015 (none) (none) (none) Clay vase. Rim broken in two places. Type XIX =1L.115
6016 (none) (none) (none) Clay vase. Broken. Type XX variant. Not used. Vol.VII.
6018A (none) (none) (none) [A-L] 12 knucklebones.

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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.