Context Title: Ningal Temple | HD     
Context Name (Excavation): Hall's Dump     
Context Name (Publication): Ningal Temple; Southern Ziggurat Terrace     
Context Description: The excavation area abbreviation HD stands for Hall's Dump. When H.R. Hall investigated portions of the ziggurat in 1919, he left a great deal of back-dirt to the south of the structure. Woolley worked for several seasons clearing the rest of the ziggurat and in season 3 he removed Hall's back-dirt dump. It had covered most of the southern ziggurat terrace, and moving it revealed a temple to Ningal of the Neo-Babylonian and Kassite periods as well as a series of rooms of these late periods probably used for storage. In the earlier periods, the southern terrace was largely free from structures.     
Season Number: 03: 1924-1925      

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Object U Number Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) Museum Number (BM Registration Number) Museum Number (UPM B-number) Description (Catalog Card)
3249A (none) (none) (none) [A-M] 13 Clay cones of Sin-balatsu-iqbi. To Nin-gal the great lion of E-gish-shir-gal the lady of the beloved crown (Nin-men-na) of Ur, his lady, Sin-balatsu-iqbi, vice regent of Ur, has built anew the Gig-par shrine of Nin-lil, the beloved bride of Sin. A statue representing Nin-gal he had made. In the shrine of dHU-DU (the god who knows = her husband?) he introduced it. In E-nir- (or E-nun) the place erected for her rites, he fixed it. H.C.
3246 (none) (none) (none) Stone mould. For beads etc. in text: Neo-Babylonian period(14)
3244 (none) 1927,1003.7 (none) Gudea Foundation Tablet. Soapstone. To dNindar, the priest king, his king, Gudea, patesi of Lagash has built his beloved house, E-lal-tum (House where honey is brought), his KI-AB-DI-KI H.C.
3243 (none) (none) (none) Bronze dress pin. Long and thin with sharp point and slightly flattened head. Present length (highly bent): 156mm. Diameter: 4mm.
3239 (none) (none) (none) Bitumen fragment covered with blue coloring matter. Color doubtfully from lapis lazuli powder more probably copper.
3172 (none) (none) (none) Ur-Engur Door-socket. Usual inscription. In text: Kassite period (14)
3161 (none) (none) (none) Brick of Sin-balatsu-igbi. 12 lines inscription.
3158 (none) (none) (none) Votive stone of Utu-hegal (BC 2350). Fragment diorite. Text: (To Nin-)gal, (beloved wife of) Sin, (his lady), (for) the life, of Utu-hegal, king of Uruk, king of the (4 regions of the world) Ur ( dEngur?) vice [regent] of Ur, (to) the mother of E-gish(-shir)-gal in Ur... utu Hegal, king of the Vth uruk Dynasty before Ur dEngur. H.C.
3140 (none) 1927,1003.100 (none) Copper staple. With eye presumably for suspension [drawing 1:1]
3127 (none) (none) (none) Polished celt. Of dark blue stone, pierced at top. [drawing 1:1]
3125 (none) (none) (none) Gold bead. With bitumen core blocking one hole. One end bent in. Spherical bead. In text: Neo-Babylonian period (7) in Cat.
3122B (none) (none) (none) [A] Pottery vase. Of pinkish ware with narrow base opening out to splayed foot. Type CXCIII. =RC.74, =L9b. (B) Thinner.
3122A 29-174-3 (none) (none) [A] Pottery vase. Of pinkish ware with narrow base opening out to splayed foot. Type CXCIII. =RC.74, =L9b. (B) Thinner.
3120 (none) (none) (none) Small pot of bitumen. Sketch pattern 1:1. [drawing 1:1]
3112 (none) 1927,1003.42 (none) Cone of Warad-Sin. Fragment. Variation of inscription: SAKI p.212 B.
3108 (none) (none) (none) Imitation celt. Of white stone, perhaps originally as pendant. In text: Neo-Babylonian period (14).
3105 (none) 1927,1003.20 (none) Gudean clay cone. Fragment. To Nina, the priestess lady, lady of In-dubba, his lady, Gudea, patesi of Lagash, has done the proper thing? Cf. SAKI p.142 Backstein H.
3079 (none) 1927,1003.67 (none) Polished celt. Of dark green stone. [drawing 1:1]
3037 (none) (none) (none) Bur-Sin. Door-socket. Blue stone. Flaking off. To Ningal. Builts Gig-par azag. Duplicate of U.3031. In text: Neo-Babylonian period (8).
3032 (none) (none) (none) Ur-Engur Door-socket. Common in scripot: builder of E-Nannar. In text: Kassite period(13)
3031 (none) 1927,1003.4 (none) Door-socket of Bur-Sin. Blue stone. Same inscription U.295 (Photo 24) To Nin-gal, his lady Bur-Sin mighty hero king of Ur, king of the 4 regions of the world has built her beloved house, Gi(g)-par azag for his life he has dedicated.
3027 (none) (none) (none) Stone weight. Blue stone pebble with 2 sides ground flat. Type ? VIII
3026 (none) 1927,1003.91 (none) Bronze implement. Genus unknown : both ends flattened. In text: Neo-Babylonian period (10) and Fig.

Media: Ningal Temple | HD Export: JSON - XML - CSV

Media Media Title Title Label Author Omeka Label
Ur Excavations V: The Ziggurat and its Surroundings Ur Excavations V: The Ziggurat and its Surroundings 1939 Woolley Leonard (none)
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Sibling Locations

Courtyard BB - PDW - Room FF - Room GG - Room SW 2 - Ziggurat

Child Locations

HD.1 - HD.2 - HD.21 - HD.3 - HD.5 - HD.6 - HD.8