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)
6185 (none) (none) (none) Clay bowl. Light drab. Broken. Arched rim ring base.
6547 (none) (none) (none) Clay bowl. Light drab. CCXXXIII. (not p)
6039 (none) (none) (none) Clay bowl. Light drab. Face decorated with thick black with shaped painted strips. Fragmentary. Part of rim missing. Not to scale [reference to drawing] Type 274 = 1L.35 [drawing]
6224 (none) (none) (none) Clay bowl. Light drab. Incised line running round inside immediately below lip. Low ring base. Type. Larsa period.
6442 (none) (none) (none) Clay bowl. Light drab. Type CCXL. =L.
6184 (none) (none) (none) Clay bowl. Light drab. Type CXCVI. =L.
6186 (none) (none) (none) Clay bowl. Light drab. Type CXXI. =RC.3. =L.
6222 (none) (none) (none) Clay bowl. Light drab. Type XC. In album. =P.37 [drawing]
6537 (none) (none) (none) Clay bowl. Light drab. Type XXII. =RC33
6574 (none) (none) (none) Clay bowl. Light drab. Type.
6032 (none) (none) (none) Clay bowl. Red. Bottom lost. Type- insufficient data.
6182 (none) (none) (none) Clay bowl. Red. Type CXCVI =L
6183 (none) (none) (none) Clay bowl. Red. Type CXCVI =L
6260 (none) (none) (none) Clay bowl. Type CCXXIX, =RC.229, =L
6147 (none) (none) (none) Clay Brazier? Drab. Base concave, hole in middle, 4 holes round ?, 4 clay ribs running from middle hole 7 brazier per side.
6308 (none) (none) (none) Clay cone of Libit-Ishtar. King of Isin. Fragment- end of nail- Same inscription as U.4, U.7, U.3245, U.3251, U.3109, U.6129.
6307 (none) (none) (none) Clay cone of UR-NAMMU. Fragment. Construction of a canal. Same inscription as U.872, U.169, U.520, U.722, U.917, U.2595, U.2795 Cat.
6310 (none) (none) (none) Clay cone. Fragment. Inscription of a king of ISIN or LARSA. H.C.
6269 (none) (none) (none) Clay cone. Pierced by hole 6mm in diameter. E.
6315 (none) 1953,0411.118 (none) Clay contract tablet. 11th year of Sanisuiluna. Concerning the hired labor of Sinadinaplim (and) Sin-lipir. Given that in Karraiski their work has not been (done), Ibi-Ninshubur, the assessor has seized Sinlipir, and has ordered Sinliper to leave saying: what the hired men will leave bricks, wood, flour, grain and silver, what the hired men in their daily allowance have not found good, against Sinlipir, for the damage of the hired men will remain when he leaves. Two witnesses. Month of Tammuz - the 9th. Year when the king Samsuiluna destroyed the great walls of Ur and Larsa H.C.
6314 (none) 1953,0411.86 (none) Clay contract tablet. Time of Samsuiluna (?) 2/3 sar and 6 gin of built property. One side the house of Hammdu and one side the house of Sin-idinnam, From Appa? Ibi dNinshuber, Nur-Ishtar, Nudubtum with him and dAa-rimet Sin-idinnam has brought 16 1/2 silver shekels as a total price he has weighed. Their claims have been presented. In future there will be no coming back on the words. The name of the king has been invoked 10 witnesses... (named) Month of Abu Year when the priestess of dIsker in Bit-quqqar was installed . 1- seal of the 4 sellers. H.C.
6230 (none) 1927,0527.244 (none) Clay cow. Baked. Drab. Legs broken. E. [drawing 1:1]
7142 (none) (none) B16658 Clay drain. Light drab. Ring shaped with covered top and raised lip. Decorated on covered top with 2 nobs and crescent on pole. IIIrd Dynasty. E. [drawing]
6234 (none) (none) (none) Clay figurine. Drab. Nude female standing full face right arm below breast left arm bent at elbow, forearm upright. Hair thick round ears and falling onto shoulders. Broken at knees. B. [drawing]
6081 (none) (none) (none) Clay foundation cone. Chipped. King Ur-Nammu - E-temen-ni-il.

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.