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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 6373 | 47-29-237 | (none) | (none) | Clay tablet. Receipt. Dated: Ibi Sin king of Ur, for Nannar has made (the statue?): the divine leader of heaven H.C. Text: 9H(2) |
| 6369 | 47-29-258 | (none) | (none) | Clay tablet. Receipt. Dated: Ibi-Sin king of Ur, has made for nannar, the throne of (his) divinity (H.C. Text: 9H.2) |
| 6371 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay tablet. Receipt. Dated: Ibi-Sin the king, has (ruined) Simu(ru)m. H.C. Text: 9H(2) |
| 6399 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay tablet. Receipt. Dated: mu-lu-am-gal an-na endninni ba-hun (Ibi-Sin). H.C. Text: 9H(2) |
| 6372 | (none) | 1948,0423.133 | (none) | Clay tablet. Receipt. Dated: Unto Ibi-Sin, king of Ur, the Amorite tribes from the south in the ancient days unknown in the city, have submitted. H.C. Text: 9H(2) |
| 6700 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay tablet. Receipt. Dated: When Ibi-Sin, the king, built the great walls of Niffer and Ur. Text 9H(2) |
| 6376 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay tablet. Receipt. Dated: year after Ibi-Sin king of Ur, to Ninlil and to ( ), the brilliant Eginabtum (has rebuilt?) H.C. Text:9H(2) |
| 6701 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay tablet. Receipt. Year (of Ibi-Sin) after the great wall was built. The next after. H.C. text: 9H(2) |
| 6378 | 47-29-177 | (none) | (none) | Clay tablet. Receipt: Ibi-Sin king of Ur, made for Innina (?) the harp (called) Ninigi-zidbarra. H.C. Text: 9H(2) |
| 6213 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay vase with black band and tassel ornament painted round rim. Light whitish clay. Type CCXII, =RC.185, =1L.91b |
| 6465B | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay vase. Light drab. Neck and foot broken. N. [Evage8?]. Card received from mallowan. 1976, Read. |
| 6037 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay vase. Approximately identical with U.6035. Mouth chipped. Type CCXIV =RC.56 |
| 6016 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay vase. Broken. Type XX variant. Not used. Vol.VII. |
| 6102 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay vase. Drab color. Ring base. Type CCXV. |
| 6072 | (none) | (none) | B16574 | Clay vase. Drab color. Type CCXIV. Cf. U.6037, U. 6035 | |
| 6024 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay vase. Drab. |
| 6074 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay vase. Drab. Base chipped. Type XIX = RC174. Vol VII. |
| 6229 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay vase. Drab. Broken. Type CLXXII. =L. |
| 6149 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay vase. Drab. Found with mud lid. Type XVI. |
| 6580 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay vase. Drab. Fragmentary. Incised criss cross pattern below below mouth. Type CCXXV (=RC.16 and 243). [drawing] |
| 6244 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay vase. Drab. Heavy double ring below neck. Ring base. Type CCXLII. =L. |
| 6034 | (none) | (none) | B16645 | Clay vase. Drab. Mouth painted black. Vertical markings about 20mm in length run down from the neck, also painted blac. Type CXXII =RC.185 =1L.91b | |
| 6025 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay vase. Drab. Ring base chipped shouldered. 3 grooves incised on wet clay turning round under neck. Type CCXXI. |
| 6174 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay vase. Drab. Type [CCXIV and =RC.56 have been crossed out] 587. =L |
| 6150 | (none) | (none) | B16643 | Clay vase. Drab. Type CCXIIL. |
| 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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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