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Context Title:	KPS Site \| KPS
Context Name (Excavation):	KPS; King's Palace South
Context Name (Publication):	The KPS Site
Context Description:	This excavation area was designated Kings Palace South (KPS) because it explored walls that were south of the main giparu building (KP). Some of these late walls cut into earlier levels of the giparu in its southern portion. The walls were found to be of patchwork domestic structures, two houses (A to the south and B to the north) separated by a street (scanty remains of a House C were also found). They were formed mostly of broken and reused bricks of the Larsa/Old Babylonian period and probably dated to the Kassite period, repaired and reused into the Neo-Babylonian. Beneath these walls were found indications of the earlier Temenos wall and various artifacts of the Early Dynastic period. The excavation area overall included part of the Neo-Babylonian temenos wall to the west, the part that contained the Nebuchadnezzar gate where inscribed bricks of this king were uncovered in foundation boxes. It stretched southward to the edge of the excavation areas called EH and DP.
Season Number:	04: 1925-1926

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Objects: KPS Site | KPS Export: JSON - XML - CSV

U Number	Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)	Museum Number (BM Registration Number)	Museum Number (UPM B-number)	Description (Catalog Card)
(none)	(none)	1935,0113.251	(none)	(none)
6283A	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-D] 4 clay vases light drab. Type LXXIV =RC.170
6283B	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-D] 4 clay vases light drab. Type LXXIV =RC.170
6283C	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-D] 4 clay vases light drab. Type LXXIV =RC.170
6283D	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-D] 4 clay vases light drab. Type LXXIV =RC.170
6284	(none)	(none)	(none)	Alabaster vase. Part of mouth broken. Type CCXXXIV ? Pot type this type is missing from album, there is no drawing of it. B.
6285	(none)	1935,0113.411	(none)	Clay bowl. Red. Type CXCVI. =L.
6286	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay vase. Red. Type LXXIII TEO =RC.129
6287	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay vase. Drab. Type CLXV in album. Persian. =P.136
6288	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Fragmentary. Swans and inscription. Lal-e pa son of Ur dGish. B.
6289	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Baked clay. Glazed. Grey. Emblems of Marduk - of Nabu - of Shamash - of Sin U and a winged dragons. Neo-Babylonian. B. [drawing]
6290	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Baked clay. Glazed. Dark grey. Fragmentary. Lines. Neo-Babylonian. B. [drawing]
6291	(none)	(none)	(none)	Hematite weight. Black. Type II. [drawing 1:1]
6293	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Black steatite. With inscription. Presentation to a seated goddess (Bau?) Crescent and bird. ( )lu dNinni? (son) of (servant of). About BC 2300 B
6295	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta Figurine. Glazed. Fragment. Lower half of nude female probably in attitude of prayer. B. [drawing 1:1]
6296	(none)	(none)	B16291	Cylinder seal. Brown marble? Inscribed. Pierced. 3 crouching antelopes (one reversed). Before BC 3000. E.
6297	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Marble. Fragmentary. Traces of an inscription. Presentation to a seated goddess. About BC 2800. B.
6298	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. White limestone (alabaster?) Inscribed. Gilgamesh protecting rampant wild bulls (?) or gazelles from lions. About BC 3000. B.
6299	(none)	1927,0527.206	(none)	Cylinder seal. Flat on one side hemispherical on the other glazed pottery scarab on the flat a crouching dragon (?) Egypt in influence. About BC 500.
6320	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay tablet. Hymn. Late Sumerian. About BC 1900(?).
6321	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay tablet. Hymn. Late Sumerian. About BC 1900(?).
6322	52-30-56	(none)	(none)	Clay tablet. Dated: Tashrit, 22nd of Nergal-ushezib king of Babylon (BC 693) Decision of the scribe Suma in a question of debts - 3,1,1,1 maneh are attributed to four persons- 9 witnesses.
6322A	(none)	(none)	(none)	(none)
6322B	52-30-56	(none)	(none)	(none)
6323	(none)	(none)	(none)	Brick of Silli-Adad. Fragment. BC 2083

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Media	Media Title	Title	Label	Author	Omeka Label
	Ur Excavations VIII; The Kassite Period and the period of the Assyrian Kings	Ur Excavations VIII; The Kassite Period and the period of the Assyrian Kings	1965	Woolley, Leonard	(none)