Context Title: Ziggurat Terrace | ZT     
Context Name (Publication): Ziggurat Terrace     
Context Name (Excavation): ZT     
Context Description: The excavation area abbreviation ZT stands for Ziggurat Terrace. It was used for any portion of the terrace on which the ziggurat stood, though other more specific abbreviations were also used. For example, the abbreviation PDW refers to the northern side of the terrace, west of the Great Nannar Courtyard (PD), and HD refers to the southern part of the terrace. Early references using the abbreviation ZT refer specifically to excavations along the terrace retaining wall itself. Later references, however, mention specific areas on top the terrace such as the so-called 'boat shrine.' The abbreviation also refers to deep clearing of the terrace fill, particularly on the north side in later excavation seasons, though the abbreviation Zig.31 was most often used for this. Woolley uncovered large areas of the retaining wall that supported the platform known as the ziggurat terrace. He found that it was decorated with large wall cones. These cones bore an inscription of Urnamma but there is evidence that the terrace in some form existed in the Early Dynastic period as well. The Urnamma retaining wall was slanted to support the terrace, was 1.7 meters high, 34 meters wide, and was decorated with 5-meter-wide buttresses about 4 meters apart. The inscribed cones dedicate the terrace to the moon god, Nanna, and show that it was called e-temen-ni-gur, which translates as, "house, foundation platform clad in terror." (Woolley read this e-temen-ni-il).     
Season Number: 02: 1923-1924      
Season Number: 03: 1924-1925      
Season Number: 05: 1926-1927      
Season Number: 10: 1931-1932      
Season Number: 11: 1932-1933      

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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)
895 (none) (none) (none) Clay pot. Green clay, wheelmade, broken. Roughly wheelmarked over the top half of the pot. Type XLVIII but the rim is not flat but curves outwards. =P97 [drawing]
8843A (none) (none) B16371 Gold ear ring. Conical in shape and rising in two tiers. The base consists of 7 gold ball beads; above them a strip of gold foil with vertical ribs and two rims of a single coil of gold wire. Above this narrow hub and above the hub a second strip of ribbed gold foil about half the diameter of the first. On the top a thin plate of gold with 2 minute gold rings through which is passed a semicircular piece of copper wire. Upon this copper wire between the gold rings swivels the gold pin. The gold pin is a circular piece of wire with detached ends which originally fastened the earring to the ear. Intact Neo-Babylonian Period. [drawing 1:1]
8840F (none) (none) (none) Tablet. In a box, not marked, and not fully examined, the following leftover unbaked, at end of season. (A)[A and H] 2 considerable fragments. (B)[B and I-L] 5 small tablets. (C) seal impression (interesting). (D) Contract with many fragments of its envelope, with seal impressions. also baked. (E) Fragment containing some proper names. (F) Half a business note also. (G) corner of archaic tablet.
8837B (none) 1928,1009.9 (none) Clay cylinder. Fragments giving bottom half of the 2 columns ? dedication to Sin-Nannar Style of Nebuchonosor. H.C.71.
8473 (none) 1928,1009.471 (none) Terracotta head of female Upper right-hand side of head missing Hair falls down side of head in long tresses Pronounced chin, straight nose and slight ridge in middle of forehead Hellenistic style? [drawing] 1:1 sketch
806 (none) 1923,1110.2 (none) Basalt hinge-stone. Inscribed with name, etc., of NABONIDUS. The fragments of the iron shoe of the door-post are still fixed in the stone.
7921 (none) 1928,1009.143 (none) Bird. Miniature. Frit. Two holes pierced for eyes and one in each wing.
7912 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Glazed. Originally green, bleached white. Winged dragon with long upright tail. Three snakes standing vertically. Two incised lines run round cylinder close to circumference at top and two similarly at bottom.
7844 37-7-96 (none) (none) Tablet. Fragment. Proper names. In rather archaic writing.
7830 (none) (none) (none) Socket. Diorite. UrNammu = 2749 etc.
7825 (none) (none) (none) Inscribed duck weight Diorite. A crescent. of Dungi; weight 5 mana. B Type VI. HC.37.
7822 (none) (none) (none) Brick with game board?
7816 (none) (none) (none) Stone tablet (fragmt). Limestone. Prob. of Kurigalzu. The insc. in so far as it is extent being identical with that of Kurigalzu's found. tablet U3019 except that line 9(?) is e-kis-sir-gal. HC.36. B.
773 (none) 1923,1110.120 (none) Clay model of animal intestines? of powdery poorly baked clay; afterwards accidentally burnt and damaged. Like U but in worse condition.
772 (none) 1923,1110.121 (none) Clay model of animal intestines? Roughly made out of crumbly and lightly baked creamish clay. [drawing]
7007 (none) (none) (none) Lamp. Bronze? Funnel shaped bowl with long spout issuing from bottom 3 small perforated handles, 2 on back, one on spout - for suspension. Persian? B. [drawing 1:2]
6928 (none) (none) (none) Adze head. Bronze? Triangular in section, with rounded edges. In elevation oblong and arched.. Adze consists of two oblong slightly convex slabs with rounded edges turned in, welded at top to form an arched join. 2 bronze cross pieces 12mm away from open ends. Wood belonging to handle was probably sickle shaped. B [drawing 1:2]
6927 (none) (none) B16432 Adze head. Bronze? Upper and lower portion of handle ribbed. No traces of wood found in handle hole. In text: Kassite period (7) and fig. E. [drawing 1:2]
6924 (none) 1927,0527.301 (none) Lamp. Baked clay. Reddish. Thick spout at bottom of bowl, slightly upturned. Persian? Or Neo-Babylonian. E. ?
6922 (none) (none) (none) Arrowhead. Bronze? Neo-Babylonian or Persian. [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.
643 (none) (none) (none) Bronze arrowhead. Normal, 3-flanged 8th-7th cent. type.
6338B (none) (none) B16233 Clay cones of Warad ilSin. To Nin-gal. Warad-sin only patesi like Silli Adad. Restores on the old plan her hous: e id-galu-sub-gu-kalam-ma. Walls destroyed? does not destroy the temenos, but puts (a si-cu-um: Semetic word) Curious name of the temple: house of the canal: the man who raises the land. Cf. Br. 11656: boat of the god of the same canal. E. H.C.
6338A (none) (none) (none) Clay cones of Warad ilSin. To Nin-gal. Warad-sin only patesi like Silli Adad. Restores on the old plan her hous: e id-galu-sub-gu-kalam-ma. Walls destroyed? does not destroy the temenos, but puts (a si-cu-um: Semetic word) Curious name of the temple: house of the canal: the man who raises the land. Cf. Br. 11656: boat of the god of the same canal. B. H.C.
3368 (none) (none) (none) Cup. White frit originally glazed, in fragments. Two small handles pierced at top: first traces of colored design.
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