Context Title: House II     
Context Name (Excavation): House II     House 2
Context Name (Publication): No. 3 Straight Street     House II correlates with published House No. 3 Straight Street
Context Description: Excavation house designation on the northwest side of Straight Street (originally called Division Street because it divided the initial excavation units of House I, II, and III). This unit may have initially contained some rooms in No. 3 Straight Street.1     
Season Number: 09: 1930-1931      
Culture/Period: Old Babylonian      
[1] Woolley did not leave behind a map of excavation house units. Field notes give some indication of where they were located and show the progress of excavation across area AH. Most excavation house designations (expressed in Roman numerals) contained two published houses (expressed by street name and door number), The excavation house units are here described in terms of the published houses they mostly or completely contained but the exact limits of each excavated house unit is not completely known.

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Objects: House II 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)
16073 (none) (none) (none) Clay tablet. Commercial. Date: Year when Ibi-Sin, King of Ur, made for Inanna the drum (called) Nin-igi-zi-bar-ra Ibi-Sin? (Ur Inscription 212) [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16088 (none) (none) (none) Clay tablet. Commercial. Date: Year after the high-priest of Eridu was... Dungi 27 (SAKI 230) [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16090 (none) (none) (none) Clay tablet UET/V:488 [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16093 (none) 1953,0411.198 (none) Clay tablet. Date Nu-warad d...sin lugal-Warad-Sin. UET/V:587 [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16096 52-30-158, 52-30-157 (none) (none) Clay tablet. Date: mu gis tukul ba-an-sig UET/V:397 [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16097 52-30-182, 52-30-182 (none) (none) Clay tablet UET/V:493 [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16326 (none) 1931,1010.25 (none) Cylinder seal. Black hematite. Tip missing. Presentation scene: 3 standing figures. The first has both hands raised in greeting., conical cap rising in tiers, a short pig-tail, and flounced kaukanes coat. Approaching is a male figure clothed in a short coat which only comes down to the knees, and carrying a club in his right hand. He also wears a brimmed cap. Behind him a second figure similarly clad carrying an offering in left hand and a basket(?) in the right. Each of the last 2 figures seems to have an animal skin over the short coat.
16383A (none) (none) (none) [A-B] Pair of earrings. Bronze with grape(?) decoration - 4 bunches pendant from the ring. [drawing 1:1]
16383B (none) (none) (none) [A-B] Pair of earrings. Bronze with grape(?) decoration - 4 bunches pendant from the ring. [drawing 1:1]
16384 (none) 1931,1010.269 (none) Beads. Minute silver and glass balls.
16400 (none) 1931,1010.88 (none) Amulet(?) Obsidian. In shape of birds head. Part of beak missing. Socketed and possibly for fitting on to some other material. [drawing 1:1]
16433A 31-43-449 (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Fragment. Plaque, painted red, of a bull-legged demon. He stands left with body in profile and head full face holding a staff with trident head.
16504A (none) (none) (none) [A-B] 2 clay tablets. Letters. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16504B (none) (none) (none) [A-B] 2 clay tablets. Letters. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16505 (none) (none) (none) Clay tablet. Commercial. Date: mu ugnim unu^KI Gis tukul ba-an-sig Year when the host of Ereck was smitten with arms. Rim-Sin 15 (orthog. variant of Ur Inscription 253). [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16521 (none) (none) (none) Clay tablet. (fragment). [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16531 31-43-250, 31-43-250 (none) (none) Mace head, white calcite. Fragment. Naram-Sin: dedication to KA-DI. H.C. 30/III,4
16533 31-43-253, 31-43-253 (none) (none) White calcite bowl, small fragment. Ur-(Nammu). H.C. 30/III, 5.
16961A (none) (none) (none) Terracotta relief. 2 fragments only of horses. Very fine work with much of the paint left (red and black). Parts of one or two rectangular plaques pierced at the corners to fix it to the wall. [drawing 1:1]
16961B (none) (none) (none) Terracotta relief. (see 16961A) [drawing 1:1]
  • 20 Objects

Media: House II Export: JSON - XML - CSV

Media Media Title Title Label Author Omeka Label
Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Ur_Notes_v3_p024 Ur_Notes_v3_p024 (none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Ur_Notes_v3_p025 Ur_Notes_v3_p025 (none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Ur_Notes_v3_p026 Ur_Notes_v3_p026 (none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Ur_Notes_v3_p027 Ur_Notes_v3_p027 (none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Ur_Notes_v3_p028 Ur_Notes_v3_p028 (none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Ur_Notes_v3_p035 Ur_Notes_v3_p035 (none)
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Room 18 - Room 23