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)
6018J (none) (none) (none) [A-L] 12 knucklebones.
6018K (none) (none) (none) [A-L] 12 knucklebones.
6018L (none) (none) (none) [A-L] 12 knucklebones.
6019 (none) (none) B16231, B16231 Clay foundation of Ur Nammu. Stem only. Chipped. Same inscription as U.2701, U.202. Records digging of a canal called Canal of Ur. P. Text: 9H(3)
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.
6021 (none) 1927,0527.109 (none) Double ended spatula. Bronze. E.
6022 (none) (none) (none) Stone vase fragment. White limestone tumbler. Type XIII variant. Ur.
6023 (none) (none) (none) Clay vase. Drab. Type CVII.
6024 (none) (none) (none) Clay vase. Drab.
6025 (none) (none) (none) Clay vase. Drab. Ring base chipped shouldered. 3 grooves incised on wet clay turning round under neck. Type CCXXI.
6026 (none) (none) (none) Clay bowl. Burial urn. Round base. Shouldered. Type CCXXVIII. =P9.
6029 (none) (none) (none) Fragment of statue. White limestone. One side of bottom of skirt; showing 3 flounces. B. text: 9H(3) [drawing 1:2]
6030 (none) (none) (none) Clay vase. Light drab. Type CVII, =RC.55
6031 (none) (none) B16584 Clay vase. Light drab. Type CVII =RC.55
6032 (none) (none) (none) Clay bowl. Red. Bottom lost. Type- insufficient data.
6033 (none) (none) (none) Clay vase. Type CCXI = RC185. 664 [Later note, unknown reference] Vol VII
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
6035 (none) (none) (none) Clay vase. Light drab. Type CCXIV =RC.56.
6036 (none) (none) (none) Clay vase. Light drab.
6037 (none) (none) (none) Clay vase. Approximately identical with U.6035. Mouth chipped. Type CCXIV =RC.56
6038 (none) (none) (none) Clay bowl. Bellied. Flat ring shaped base grooved below mouth. Drab. Type CCLXXIV.
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]
6040 (none) (none) (none) Clay vase. Reddish. 3 incised parallel lines below rim. 2 incised parallel lines above base. Round base. Misshapen. CCXIV =RC.56
6041 (none) (none) (none) Clay vase. Reddish. XLIII, Type XLIV [XLIII seems to be correcting XLIV]
6042 (none) (none) (none) Earthenware pot. Type CVI [CXXVI crossed out]

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.