Ziggurat Terrace | ZT

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)
18553D 33-35-484 (none) (none) [A-L] Seal impressions on fragments of clay jar stopper. 12 in all. 1st dynasty types with human figures and animals.
18553E 33-35-485 (none) (none) [A-L] Seal impressions on fragments of clay jar stopper. 12 in all. 1st dynasty types with human figures and animals.
18553F 33-35-486 (none) (none) [A-L] Seal impressions on fragments of clay jar stopper. 12 in all. 1st dynasty types with human figures and animals.
18553G 33-35-487 (none) (none) [A-L] Seal impressions on fragments of clay jar stopper. 12 in all. 1st dynasty types with human figures and animals.
18553H 33-35-488 (none) (none) [A-L] Seal impressions on fragments of clay jar stopper. 12 in all. 1st dynasty types with human figures and animals.
18553I 33-35-489 (none) (none) [A-L] Seal impressions on fragments of clay jar stopper. 12 in all. 1st dynasty types with human figures and animals.
18553J 33-35-490 (none) (none) [A-L] Seal impressions on fragments of clay jar stopper. 12 in all. 1st dynasty types with human figures and animals.
18553K 33-35-491 (none) (none) [A-L] Seal impressions on fragments of clay jar stopper. 12 in all. 1st dynasty types with human figures and animals.
18553L 33-35-492 (none) (none) [A-L] Seal impressions on fragments of clay jar stopper. 12 in all. 1st dynasty types with human figures and animals.
2759B (none) (none) (none) [A-K] 11 cones of Warad-Sin. Numbered A to K. Found in position. Text (cf. Thur-Dang ISA. Arad(-Sin e)) in text: Ziggurat in Larsa period (8)
2759C (none) (none) (none) [A-K] 11 cones of Warad-Sin. Numbered A to K. Found in position. Text (cf. Thur-Dang ISA. Arad(-Sin e)) in text: Ziggurat in Larsa period (8)
2759D (none) (none) (none) [A-K] 11 cones of Warad-Sin. Numbered A to K. Found in position. Text (cf. Thur-Dang ISA. Arad(-Sin e)) in text: Ziggurat in Larsa period (8)
2759E (none) (none) (none) [A-K] 11 cones of Warad-Sin. Numbered A to K. Found in position. Text (cf. Thur-Dang ISA. Arad(-Sin e)) in text: Ziggurat in Larsa period (8)
2759F (none) 1927,1003.10 (none) [A-K] 11 cones of Warad-Sin. Numbered A to K. Found in position. Text (cf. Thur-Dang ISA. Arad(-Sin e)) in text: Ziggurat in Larsa period (8)
2759G (none) (none) (none) [A-K] 11 cones of Warad-Sin. Numbered A to K. Found in position. Text (cf. Thur-Dang ISA. Arad(-Sin e)) in text: Ziggurat in Larsa period (8)
2759H (none) (none) (none) [A-K] 11 cones of Warad-Sin. Numbered A to K. Found in position. Text (cf. Thur-Dang ISA. Arad(-Sin e)) in text: Ziggurat in Larsa period (8)
2759I (none) (none) (none) [A-K] 11 cones of Warad-Sin. Numbered A to K. Found in position. Text (cf. Thur-Dang ISA. Arad(-Sin e)) in text: Ziggurat in Larsa period (8)
2759J (none) (none) (none) [A-K] 11 cones of Warad-Sin. Numbered A to K. Found in position. Text (cf. Thur-Dang ISA. Arad(-Sin e)) in text: Ziggurat in Larsa period (8)
2759K (none) (none) (none) [A-K] 11 cones of Warad-Sin. Numbered A to K. Found in position. Text (cf. Thur-Dang ISA. Arad(-Sin e)) in text: Ziggurat in Larsa period (8)
2759A (none) 1927,1003.11 (none) [A-K] 11 cones of Warad-Sin. Numbered A to K. Found in position. Text (cf. Thur-Dang ISA. Arad(-Sin c)) in text: Zigg in Larsa period (8)
18585G (none) (none) (none) [A-I] A set of weights. Weights in grains [A] (1) Diorite, pierced at one end. 413 grs. [B] (2) Hematite . 130grs. [C] (3) Hematite 64grs. [D] (4) Hematite 65grs. [E] (5) Steatite 37grs. [F] (6) Steatite 7grs. [G] (7) Steatite 10grs. [H] (8) Hematite 78grs. [I] (9) Doubtful weight: white calcite shaped as a plano-convex brick 315grs. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
18585H (none) (none) (none) [A-I] A set of weights. Weights in grains [A] (1) Diorite, pierced at one end. 413 grs. [B] (2) Hematite . 130grs. [C] (3) Hematite 64grs. [D] (4) Hematite 65grs. [E] (5) Steatite 37grs. [F] (6) Steatite 7grs. [G] (7) Steatite 10grs. [H] (8) Hematite 78grs. [I] (9) Doubtful weight: white calcite shaped as a plano-convex brick 315grs. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
18585A (none) (none) (none) [A-I] A set of weights. Weights in grains [A] (1) Diorite, pierced at one end. 413 grs. [B] (2) Hematite . 130grs. [C] (3) Hematite 64grs. [D] (4) Hematite 65grs. [E] (5) Steatite 37grs. [F] (6) Steatite 7grs. [G] (7) Steatite 10grs. [H] (8) Hematite 78grs. [I] (9) Doubtful weight: white calcite shaped as a plano-convex brick 315grs. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
18585C 33-35-125 (none) (none) [A-I] A set of weights. Weights in grains [A] (1) Diorite, pierced at one end. 413 grs. [B] (2) Hematite . 130grs. [C] (3) Hematite 64grs. [D] (4) Hematite 65grs. [E] (5) Steatite 37grs. [F] (6) Steatite 7grs. [G] (7) Steatite 10grs. [H] (8) Hematite 78grs. [I] (9) Doubtful weight: white calcite shaped as a plano-convex brick 315grs. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
18585D (none) (none) (none) [A-I] A set of weights. Weights in grains [A] (1) Diorite, pierced at one end. 413 grs. [B] (2) Hematite . 130grs. [C] (3) Hematite 64grs. [D] (4) Hematite 65grs. [E] (5) Steatite 37grs. [F] (6) Steatite 7grs. [G] (7) Steatite 10grs. [H] (8) Hematite 78grs. [I] (9) Doubtful weight: white calcite shaped as a plano-convex brick 315grs. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]

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