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)
6494 (none) (none) B16416 Bronze pin. Spiral top.
6493 (none) (none) (none) Bronze pin. Slightly curved below. B.
6492 (none) (none) (none) Bronze pencil? B.
6491 (none) 1927,0527.106 (none) Bronze pin. Hole pierced in top. E.
6490 (none) (none) (none) Bronze pin. B.
6489 (none) 1927,0527.56 (none) Alabaster vase. White and yellow streaks. Type L stone. Near JN.14. E
6487 (none) 1927,0527.151 (none) Miniature left foot of doll? Shell. Bone color. Hole pierced in top and inside of foot. E.
6486 (none) (none) (none) Miniature bull pendant. Alabaster. Greenish yellow. B. [drawing 1:1]
6484 (none) (none) B16613 Clay vase. Light drab. Flat rim. Type CCXXV. Variant. Flat rim. =RC.16 or 243.
6481 (none) (none) (none) Miniature Bronze bottle. High curved neck. E.
6480 (none) 1927,0527.84 (none) Silver bangles (2) and group of beads. Found lumped together owing to corrosion.
6479 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Presentation to seated god. Crescent on pole. About BC 2200. B.
6478 (none) (none) B16349 Bull pendant. White shell, resting on flat base, one side only shaped, other side flat. Body in profile, head full face. See photograph 555 [unclear if this is photo or reference]. E. [drawing]
6476 (none) (none) (none) Clay bird. Drab. Fragmentary. Eyes rendered by clay pellets. B. [drawing 1:1]
6475 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. Green. Perforated base.
6468 (none) 1927,0527.144 (none) Pendant, in shape of duck? Pierced for suspension. ? A lion's claw. E. [drawing 1:1]
6467C (none) (none) (none) 3 miniature clay vases. Light drab. (A) and (B) have a hole pierced in either side of neck.
6467B (none) (none) (none) 3 miniature clay vases. Light drab. (A) and (B) have a hole pierced in either side of neck.
6467A (none) (none) (none) 3 miniature clay vases. Light drab. (A) and (B) have a hole pierced in either side of neck.
6466 (none) 1927,0527.285 (none) Clay vase. Miniature. Light drab. Type CCXXV (miniature) =RC16 or 243.
6465B (none) (none) (none) Clay vase. Light drab. Neck and foot broken. N. [Evage8?]. Card received from mallowan. 1976, Read.
6464 (none) (none) (none) Clay vase. Light drab. Cf U.6462. Type.
6443 (none) (none) (none) Clay vase. Type CCXLI =P.125. In album. [drawing]
6442 (none) (none) (none) Clay bowl. Light drab. Type CCXL. =L.
6419 (none) (none) B16276 Terracotta pig? E. [height measurement is preceded by head to ears unclear if the measurement is meant to relate to the note] [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.