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) |
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![]() | 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] |
![]() | 6527 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Terracotta figurine. Fragmentary. Bearded man holding sheath in left hand. B. [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] | |
![]() | 6534 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Terracotta figurine. Fragment. Head missing. Seated figure clothed in long flaring cloak, hands clasped over breast. U shaped collar, hair represented by bearded globules, flowing down over beard. B. |
![]() | 6251 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Terracotta figurine. Female with hands clustered beneath breast; flowing headdress running down at back. Broken at legs. B. |
![]() | 6514B | (none) | (none) | (none) | Terracotta box. Square. Cracked. |
![]() | 6787 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Terracotta Boat. [drawing] B |
![]() | 6523 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Terracotta boat. Miniature. B. |
![]() | 6513 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Terracotta boat. Hole pierced through top of prow. Cf. U.6478 |
![]() | 6559 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Terracotta boat. B. |
![]() | 6249 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Strainer. Red clay. |
![]() | 6022 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone vase fragment. White limestone tumbler. Type XIII variant. Ur. |
![]() | 6278 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone loom weight? In shape of cone. Type XI. B. [drawing 1:2] |
![]() | 6127 | (none) | 1935,0113.752 | (none) | Stone fragment. Light drab. In shape of hollow eye socket. [annotated] CANCELLED. |
![]() | 6475 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Green. Perforated base. |
![]() | 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. |
![]() | 6272 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Square marble block. Grey. E. |
![]() | 6101 | (none) | 1927,0527.57 | (none) | Small stone pot. Ochre color. Mouth chipped. Egg shaped bowl. Type XLII. =RC.81 or 74 must be wrongly typed as RC.81 has a flat base and so does RC.74. |
![]() | 6064 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Small duck weight. Black hematite. Type VI. [drawing 1:1] |
![]() | 6480 | (none) | 1927,0527.84 | (none) | Silver bangles (2) and group of beads. Found lumped together owing to corrosion. |
![]() | 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. |
6162 | (none) | 1928,1010.845 | (none) | Saucer shaped bowl. Baked clay. Rectangular oblong with raised table in center. [drawing] | |
![]() | 6113 | (none) | (none) | B16224 | Round stone lid. Green. Chipped. E. [drawing] |
![]() | 6536 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Rib bone of an ox. Broken in two pieces. From 3rd Dynasty foundation urn found inside U7141. E. |
6115 | (none) | (none) | B16571.151 | Red clay bowl. Ribbed. Misshapen. Type CXXI approximately =RC.3 variant |
Media | Media Title | Title | Label | Author | Omeka Label |
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![]() | 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