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)
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]
6020 (none) 1927,0527.201 (none) Stamp seal, flattened hemispherical -obverse convex- top with decorative workings - 3 parallel lines running across centre and 4 concentric circles in corners. White steatite. Two Sumerian - man & wife bring as an offering a goat (?) and a vase of milk. diam. 0022 width 0004 About BC 3500. photograph 554 E.
6506 (none) 1927,0527.200 (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Lion between two fighting men. Sbout BC 2400.
6200 (none) 1927,0527.197 (none) Broken cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Scene of worshipping. To dNin-shubur, the messenger of heaven About BC 2100.
6538 (none) 1927,0527.192 (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Rampant lion attacked by two hunters.
6092 (none) 1927,0527.189 (none) Cylinder bead. White limestone. Decorated with criss cross incisions.
6131 (none) 1927,0527.188 (none) Cylinder seal. Grey steatite. Weatherworn.
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.
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.
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.
6590 (none) 1927,0527.177 (none) Cylinder seal. White shell. Gilgamesh fighting the rampant bull; Eabani fight the rampant lion. Before BC 3000. E.
6551 (none) 1927,0527.152 (none) Die. White bone. E. [drawing 1:1]
6487 (none) 1927,0527.151 (none) Miniature left foot of doll? Shell. Bone color. Hole pierced in top and inside of foot. E.
6468 (none) 1927,0527.144 (none) Pendant, in shape of duck? Pierced for suspension. ? A lion's claw. E. [drawing 1:1]
6504 (none) 1927,0527.140 (none) Pendant in shape of miniature lion. White shell. Hole pierced through middle. E. [drawing 1:1]
6088 (none) 1927,0527.135 (none) White limestone? Ring. E. [drawing]
6784 (none) 1927,0527.117 (none) Copper dragon's head. Broken below neck. Text: 9H(3). [drawing]
6021 (none) 1927,0527.109 (none) Double ended spatula. Bronze. E.
6509 (none) 1927,0527.108 (none) Pin bronze. E.
6491 (none) 1927,0527.106 (none) Bronze pin. Hole pierced in top. E.
6107 (none) 1927,0527.105 (none) Bronze bodkin. Broken in two pieces. E. [drawing 1:1]
6151 (none) 1927,0527.104 (none) Copper pin. Bead head of lapis lazuli. E. [drawing]
6530 (none) 1927,0527.102 (none) Nail. Bronze. Broken near top. E.
6190 (none) 1927,0527.101 (none) Copper? Pin. Scale 1:2. E. [drawing 1:2]
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]

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.