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      

Objects: Ningal Temple | HD 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)
3314A (none) 1927,1003.130 (none) (A) Small unguent vase of faience originally glazed. Type sketch 1:1. [drawing 1:1] (B) miniature altar (?) of faience originally glazed [drawing 1:1]
3314B (none) 1927,1003.187 (none) (A) Small unguent vase of faience originally glazed. Type sketch 1:1. [drawing 1:1] (B) miniature altar (?) of faience originally glazed [drawing 1:1]
3239 (none) (none) (none) Bitumen fragment covered with blue coloring matter. Color doubtfully from lapis lazuli powder more probably copper.
3316 (none) (none) (none) Brick - Time of Sin-balatsu-iqbi. With counting board of 6 by 10 squares. In text: neo-Babylonian period (6) in Cat.[drawing]
3252 (none) (none) B16477 Brick of Kurigalzu. To Nannar, his king, dKurigalzu mighty hero, king of Ur, king of Sumer and Akkad E-kish-shir-gal, his beloved temple, has restored. H.C. in text: Kassite period(13)
3299C (none) (none) B16558 Brick of Sin balalsu iqbi 2 stamps: face and side. Same text as U.3250. Except var. 11.6-7: "E As-an-bur, the shrine of Enlil."
3161 (none) (none) (none) Brick of Sin-balatsu-igbi. 12 lines inscription.
3243 (none) (none) (none) Bronze dress pin. Long and thin with sharp point and slightly flattened head. Present length (highly bent): 156mm. Diameter: 4mm.
3026 (none) 1927,1003.91 (none) Bronze implement. Genus unknown : both ends flattened. In text: Neo-Babylonian period (10) and Fig.
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).
3267 (none) (none) (none) Clay cone. Fragment. Construction - with the great cubit of Sin: - of the great outer wall (Kir-mah). King probably Larsa (Warad-Sin or Rim-Sin?) H.C.
3112 (none) 1927,1003.42 (none) Cone of Warad-Sin. Fragment. Variation of inscription: SAKI p.212 B.
3140 (none) 1927,1003.100 (none) Copper staple. With eye presumably for suspension [drawing 1:1]
6742 (none) 1928,1009.2 (none) Diorite door-socket. To nannar, king of Ur, dEnlilla-mishag, patesi of Niffer (the ? has restored?) E. H.C.
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.
3279 (none) 1927,1003.77 (none) Fragment of stone vase. White obsidian finely polished.
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.
3306 (none) 1927,1003.225 (none) Gold disk. Plain beaten leaf, ornamented and in very bad condition. In text: Kassite period (15) in cat.
3307 (none) 1927,1003.224 (none) Gold disk. Plain beaten leaf, ornamented and in very bad condition. In text: Kassite period (15) in cat.
3308 (none) 1927,1003.231 (none) Gold disk. Small, of plain unadorned leaf. In text: Kassite period (15) in cat.
3312 (none) (none) (none) Gold leaf fragments? four fragments. Plain leaf. In txt: Kassite period (16) in cat.
3310 (none) 1927,1003.227 (none) Gold leaf. Bearing traces of relief beaten into pattern. . In text: Kassite period (15) in cat.
3309 (none) 1927,1003.226 (none) Gold leaf. Bearing traces of relief: fragmentary. In etxt: Kassite period (15) in cat.
3311 (none) 1927,1003.228 (none) Gold leaf. Carved fragment in shape of blade, with dots beaten in round edge. In text: Kassite period (16) in cat.
3313 (none) (none) (none) Gold wire. Small fragments. In text: Kassite period (16) in cat.
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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