ES

Context Title: ES     
Context Name (Publication): E-nun-mah     
Context Name (Excavation): Enunmah South; Emuriana Site     
Context Description: The abbreviation ES almost certainly stands for Enunmah South, though it may also have to do with the building called Emuriana, referenced in a disturbed Kassite door socket found in the area. Legrain lists ES as the Egigpar of Nabonidus, SW end, and ES, or at least ESB did extend into the later remains of the Dublalmah, which at that time was part of the NeoBabylonian Giparu. The abbreviation ES first appeared in season one as a supplement to Trial Trench B (TTB.ES) when the trench was expanded to reveal the extents of the building found to be called E-nun-mah. In season 3, the abbreviation shortened simply to ES, used for the majority of the enunmah building. The Enunmah changed in layout and likely in usage through the many centuries of its existence. Initially a storage building called the ga-nun-mah, it seems to have been used as a temple, the e-nun-mah, in the Neo-Babylonian period. Some lists of excavation abbreviations equate ES with the Dublalmah site. This is because the southern Enunmah is just east of the Dublalmah. Area ESB is still more closely associated with the eastern edge of the dublalmah and likely into it.     
Season Number: 03: 1924-1925      Begun in season 1 as TTB, extended to TTB.ES, then only ES in season 3

Objects: ES 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)
1165 (none) (none) B15885 Black stone gate socket, with long but incomplete inscr. running round the side. Beginning and end lost, partly by the breaking off of one side of the stone, partly by flaking away the surface. 42 ll remain, recording the building of an archive-house (dub-la-mah), annexed to the court of justice, by Bur-Sin I, king of Ur. The text ends with blessings and curses upon those who should respect or destroy the king's monument. Photo 147 RI.71
17208 (none) (none) (none) Brick. Sin-batatsu-iqbi; rebuilding of the ziggurat, E-lugal-galga-sisa. (Ur insc. 168. The new example confirms the restorations in LL.3,4, and 8)
2757 (none) 1927,1003.9 (none) Clay cylindrical column of Sin-balatsuigbi. Copy of inscriptions of Bur-Sin recording the foundation of 3 statues Ivth column in Semitic: Copy of bricks from? Ur work of Bur-Sin king of Ur, (which) when searching for the plan lines of Egish-shirgal, Sinbalatsuigbi, vice regent of Ur (has found). Nabushumiddina son of Idin-an-ni-u. priest (kal-lu) of Sin, for inspection has singled and inscribed. On the top: (In front) of the shrine of Enlil. H.C. (A15, p384)
2758 (none) (none) (none) Kudurru. Property: House of Sin-she-me Column I - 28 lines - Almost all defaced. Column II - 28 lines - [curses] good. Column III - 15 lines - half defaced. (Celephon. Illegible) Cassite period. Found with U.2760. H.C.
2761C (none) (none) B16676 Ur-Nammu Stela. Stone stele fragments. Fine limestone: six fragments, [following text is struck through] giving horizontal division of stele. Upper two bear lower part of skirt & two finely modelled feet & conventional river of Ea, seated on throne. Lower register divine headdress, spear (?) & tree. Whole of fine workmanship. Upper register fragg. A. & C.: lower B. [end strike-through] For details see following page. In text: Ur-Nammu Stela and Kassite period 4. (A) Division between registers, one foot of top register figure and top of tree in lower register. (B) do. With part of throne top register & god's headdress in lower. (C) 2nd foot & part of skirt & throne of top register fig. (D) part of throne top register. (E) Lower part of headdress of god (2nd reg.) & hair. (F) Rest of god from 2nd reg. seated on throne before conventional tree in pot into which king is pouring libation (this connects with U.3264A) 3rd reg. upper parts of 3 figg: minor deity introducing king who bears mason's tools supported behind by priest or slave.
2767 (none) (none) (none) Clay tablet. Neo-Babylonian Period. Incantation by Samas, king of heaven and earth, the great judge. Obverse: 11 lines. Lower part broken. Reverse: defaced. H.C.
2770 (none) (none) (none) Diorite statue of Dungi. Small inscribed fragment. andof (?)Simu(ru?). Dungi mighty hero, king of Ur, king of the 4 regions of the world, dNin-sun of Ur (to her?) he (built or presented??) Two round holes for small copper rivets have been bored in the inscription. One still filled with copper. H.C.
2777 (none) (none) (none) Clay tablet. Unbaked. Oberse: defaced. Reverse: Two lines partly defaced, written in the length, refers to inspection of foundation? (u-si-si u-ti) H.C.
2779 (none) (none) B16498 Baked brick with drawing diagram or game (Cp. U.2728) Two finger deep holes about 4cm. [drawing 1:2]
2793 (none) (none) (none) Gold strip. Narrow strip of thin metal rolled up.
2794 (none) (none) (none) Cone of Kudur Mabug. Text complete round stem (head is missing.) H.C.
2796 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Martu period. About BC 2100. [drawing]
2801 (none) 1927,1003.17 (none) Cone of Kudur Mabug. Only the stem, one section badly broken. To nannar his king He gives details on 10) restoration of Ebar-ra;, 20) Door of the great gate of Larsa, 80) peace to all inhabitants, 40) Ur and Larsa abide in? for his life and that of Warad-Sin his son, king of Larsa: he, 10) in the ( ) ki-temen, the place of his joy he introduced ( 1, 20) it stood in front of the god, 30) the e-sa-kalamma (house peace of the land) it is established... For which he expects protection from Nannar and Ningal... H.C.
2802 (none) 1927,1003.174 (none) Terracotta figurine. Drab: female, nude, suckling child. Lower part of legs missing. [drawing 1:1]
2811 (none) (none) (none) Brick with drawing game or plan. Frag. [drawing 1:2]
2815 (none) (none) (none) Clay tablet. Fragment. Neo-Babylonian. Syllabary: List of signs [transcribed sign] gish. Colophon: e ba-da house of the boys - Probably material of the school.
2816 (none) (none) (none) Clay tablet. Fragment. Neo-Babylonian syllabary - list of signs Zi and of short sentences ki-na --
2825 (none) 1935,0113.375 (none) Stone pot lid. Dark blue stone, somewhat broken. [drawing 1:2]
2831 (none) (none) (none) Stone weight. Roughly rounded blackish volcanic stone. Type VIII. [drawing 1:1]
2849 (none) (none) (none) Copper weight. Conical. Type IV. [drawing 1:1]
2852 (none) (none) (none) Bronze pin. Waisted head: in good condition.
2853 (none) (none) (none) Bronze dog. Seated. [drawing 1:1]
2854 (none) (none) (none) Bronze statuette. Standing bearded figure with long hair and bottle in hand. [drawing 1:1]
2860A (none) 1930,1213.657 (none) Clay Tablet. About BC 2700 (Period of Agade Kings). Text: 1 sheep, 5 pieces of bread gu, 5 pots of drink (sur-ra), 50 Fishes (A-min) 45 birds, 120 qa of barley. Present of the king-for the king. This is 2860 (1) [A] for 2860 (2-20) [B-T] see UET.II
2860B (none) (none) (none) Clay Tablet. About BC 2700 (Period of Agade Kings). Text: 1 sheep, 5 pieces of bread gu, 5 pots of drink (sur-ra), 50 Fishes (A-min) 45 birds, 120 qa of barley. Present of the king-for the king. This is 2860 (1) [A] for 2860 (2-20) [B-T] see UET.II
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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)
Ur Excavations IX; The Neo-Babylonian and Persian Periods Ur Excavations IX; The Neo-Babylonian and Persian Periods 1962 Woolley, L. and Mallowan, Max (none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Ur_Notes_v2_p030 Ur_Notes_v2_p030 (none)
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References

Woolley, Leonard. (1974) Ur Excavations VI; The Ur III Period, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Woolley, L. and Mallowan, Max. (1962) Ur Excavations IX; The Neo-Babylonian and Persian Periods, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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