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)
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.
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.
7251 (none) 1948,0423.8 (none) No catalog card exists for this object: U.7146-U.7284 fell unassigned between seasons 4 and 5. They were later used for tablets found in Season 4 in areas KP, EH, and possibly HT (Jacobsen AJA 57:128).
7239 (none) 1948,0423.6 (none) No catalog card exists for this object: U.7146-U.7284 fell unassigned between seasons 4 and 5. They were later used for tablets found in Season 4 in areas KP, EH, and possibly HT (Jacobsen AJA 57:128).
7254 (none) 1948,0423.430 (none) No catalog card exists for this object: U.7146-U.7284 fell unassigned between seasons 4 and 5. They were later used for tablets found in Season 4 in areas KP, EH, and possibly HT (Jacobsen AJA 57:128).
7229 (none) 1948,0423.384 (none) No catalog card exists for this object: U.7146-U.7284 fell unassigned between seasons 4 and 5. They were later used for tablets found in Season 4 in areas KP, EH, and possibly HT (Jacobsen AJA 57:128).
6719 (none) 1948,0423.360 (none) Large clay tablet. 12 columns (6 face, 6 reverse) Total of goods of the craftsmen (smith, cobblers, carpenters, tailors, etc.) Received by Abuwagar the diviner: authority of Warad ilNannar - From month Segurkud - to month Ezen dUnugal. Year when for Ibi-Sin king of Ur, beloved of the heart of Nannar, the Euphrates over flood. H.C. Baghdad. Text:9H(2)
7227 (none) 1948,0423.339 (none) No catalog card exists for this object: U.7146-U.7284 fell unassigned between seasons 4 and 5. They were later used for tablets found in Season 4 in areas KP, EH, and possibly HT (Jacobsen AJA 57:128).
7252 (none) 1948,0423.325 (none) No catalog card exists for this object: U.7146-U.7284 fell unassigned between seasons 4 and 5. They were later used for tablets found in Season 4 in areas KP, EH, and possibly HT (Jacobsen AJA 57:128).
7234 (none) 1948,0423.3 (none) No catalog card exists for this object: U.7146-U.7284 fell unassigned between seasons 4 and 5. They were later used for tablets found in Season 4 in areas KP, EH, and possibly HT (Jacobsen AJA 57:128).
7243 (none) 1948,0423.292 (none) No catalog card exists for this object: U.7146-U.7284 fell unassigned between seasons 4 and 5. They were later used for tablets found in Season 4 in areas KP, EH, and possibly HT (Jacobsen AJA 57:128).
7226 (none) 1948,0423.18 (none) No catalog card exists for this object: U.7146-U.7284 fell unassigned between seasons 4 and 5. They were later used for tablets found in Season 4 in areas KP, EH, and possibly HT (Jacobsen AJA 57:128).
7266 (none) 1948,0423.177 (none) No catalog card exists for this object: U.7146-U.7284 fell unassigned between seasons 4 and 5. They were later used for tablets found in Season 4 in areas KP, EH, and possibly HT (Jacobsen AJA 57:128).
7242 (none) 1948,0423.16 (none) No catalog card exists for this object: U.7146-U.7284 fell unassigned between seasons 4 and 5. They were later used for tablets found in Season 4 in areas KP, EH, and possibly HT (Jacobsen AJA 57:128).
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)
7228 (none) 1948,0423.11 (none) No catalog card exists for this object: U.7146-U.7284 fell unassigned between seasons 4 and 5. They were later used for tablets found in Season 4 in areas KP, EH, and possibly HT (Jacobsen AJA 57:128).
6368 (none) 1948,0423.107 (none) Clay tablet. Receipt dated: for Ibisin king of Ur, Nannar the beloved of his heart has let the Euphrates rise. H.C.
6127 (none) 1935,0113.752 (none) Stone fragment. Light drab. In shape of hollow eye socket. [annotated] CANCELLED.
6180 (none) 1935,0113.387 (none) Clay vase. Drab. Type XVI. =RC.73. =L
(none) (none) 1933,1013.214 (none) (none)
6162 (none) 1928,1010.845 (none) Saucer shaped bowl. Baked clay. Rectangular oblong with raised table in center. [drawing]
6496 (none) 1927,0527.98 (none) Copper dagger. [drawing 1:2]
6137 (none) 1927,0527.97 (none) Bronze adze head. E. [drawing 1:4]
6303 (none) 1927,0527.93 (none) Copper FIGURE of SHULGI. Together with the Soapstone Foundation Tablet U.6302- Shrine of dDim-tab-ba. Same inscription on both. CF. U.6158, U.6300. Text: Dim-tab-ba Temple (2). E.
6480 (none) 1927,0527.84 (none) Silver bangles (2) and group of beads. Found lumped together owing to corrosion.
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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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