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)
6259 (none) (none) (none) Clay vase. Drab. Type: [XX crossed out] 588, =RC.226 [crossed out] =L.
6260 (none) (none) (none) Clay bowl. Type CCXXIX, =RC.229, =L
6263 (none) 1927,0527.231 (none) Terracotta fragment. Bearded male figure. Hands clasped in front of breast, braided hair, flounced cloak running over left shoulder. Eyes, mouth, ears, nose pronounced. E. [drawing 1:1]
6264 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Upper half of figure lost. Flounced right-hand outstretched hanging down along side body remains of foot. B. [drawing 1:1]
6265 (none) (none) (none) Clay vase. Light drab. Type CCXXX. Same as U.6210. =RC.226. =L.
6266 (none) (none) (none) Clay bowl. Drab. Type CCXXXIII. =RC.39. =L.
6267 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta fragment. Nude female carrying a vase in what is probably a wicker basket? [drawing 1:1]
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.
6269 (none) (none) (none) Clay cone. Pierced by hole 6mm in diameter. E.
6270 (none) (none) (none) Clay vase. Type LXII. TEO (variant) curved lip. =RC.109. =L
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.
6272 (none) (none) (none) Square marble block. Grey. E.
6273 (none) (none) (none) Limestone weight? Grey. Type X. E.
6275 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Fragmentary. Worshipper led by hand. Samas-pa-e son of Abbakalla; IIIrd Ur Dynasty. B.
6276 (none) (none) (none) Pedestal of status. Black diorite. Fragmentary. Partially originally the base of the black diorite statue of King Dungi found nearby. Text: Dim-tab-ba temple(3)
6278 (none) (none) (none) Stone loom weight? In shape of cone. Type XI. B. [drawing 1:2]
6279 (none) (none) (none) Mace head. Black marble? Fragmentary. E.
6281 (none) (none) (none) Unbaked clay tablet. Uninscribed, ready to receive inscription. Rectangular, oblong, one side slightly convex, one side flat. E.
6282 (none) (none) (none) Clay vase. Drab. Type CCXXVII. =L
6292A (none) (none) (none) [A-K] Group of XI sling bolts. Baked clay.
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)
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.
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.
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.
6306 (none) (none) (none) Diorite STATUE of SHULGI. Mutilated. King standing with hands clasped as a worshipper. "To Nannar, his king, Shulgi, the mighty one "King of Ur (king of S and A), for his life, has "presented it. This statue: Nannar the wall (_________ so is the name of the statue)." King is dressed with a fringed shawl passing over the left shoulder. B. Photo 558 H.C. Text: Dim-tab-ba Temple(3)

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.