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Context Title:	DP
Context Name (Excavation):	DP [Dungi's Palace?]
Context Name (Publication):	EM Site¹
Context Description:	The excavation area abbreviation DP probably stands for Dungi's Palace; Woolley believed the building with bricks marked e-hur-sag (thought to refer to Shulgi's palace) was too small to be what should be a grandiose building. Thus, he explored the area southeast of the giparu extensively looking for it. Most of his abbreviations for excavations in this area refer to the potential palace. When he found cylinders inscribed with the name of Shulgi beneath a partly ruined floor (excavation area abbreviation DT in the northwestern portion of area EH), he thought he might have found it or at least indications of it. This building turned out to be a temple dedicated to Dimtabba (now read Nimintabba) and its very partial remains extended beyond the line of the Neo-Babylonian temenos wall to the west. Woolley continued to dig into this western area under a new excavation abbreviation, DP. This area did not reveal a palace or additional ruins of the Nimintabba temple, but instead it showed denuded domestic space related to Hall's Area A excavations. Area DP became the northern portion of area EM, but only partial houses are shown here along what Woolley termed Quality Lane. The houses here were never published in great detail, but many of the DP graves appear on the area EM map as falling along Quality Lane.
Season Number:	04: 1925-1926
Culture/Period:	Ur III

[1] partially published as the northern portion of EM

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U Number	Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)	Museum Number (BM Registration Number)	Museum Number (UPM B-number)	Description (Catalog Card)
7051	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay vase. Light drab. Type [CVII and 650 crossed out.] RC.73.
7052	31-16-178	(none)	(none)	Clay vase. Light drab. Type LVI (variant) No ring base. =L. (?)
7056	(none)	(none)	(none)	Nose? Ring. Gold. [drawing 1:1]
7057	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay vase. Miniature. Glazed. White. [drawing 1:1]
7060	(none)	1927,0527.233	(none)	Terracotta figurine. Bearded male in profile holding axe in left hand. Close fitting cap on head. Feet lost. E. [drawing 1:1]
7061	(none)	1927,0527.239	(none)	Terracotta figurine. Fragment. Part of sheep? In profile, head and forelegs missing. Larsa period. E. [drawing 1:1]
7062	(none)	(none)	B16259	Terracotta figurine. Fragmentary. Heads missing. 2 nude wrestlers, males, arms locked round waists, right foot of one figure crosses left foot of the other. E [drawing 1:1]
7070	(none)	(none)	B16222	Vase. Alabaster. White. Fragment. Type. Ur.
7075	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta statuette. Fragmentary below waist. Nude female wearing high headdress, crescent moon near top - naked Ishtar, with high horned headdress (mitre with 4 pairs of horns,) sunflower on either side of waist and built at either shoulder and rising from either shoulder sunflower with stalk. B. [drawing 1:1]
7080	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay vase. Light drab. Type [CVII crossed out] =RC.55. =L.
7085	47-29-419	(none)	B16587	Clay vase. Light drab. Type RC.26. =L.
7086	(none)	(none)	B16586A	Clay vase. Light drab. Type XX. RC.26.=L.
7087A	(none)	(none)	B16571.20	[A-B] 2 clay vases. Reddish. Type CCLXXVII. =L.
7087B	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-B] 2 clay vases. Reddish. Type CCLXXVII. =L.
7088	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay vase. Light drab. Type CXXIX. (not p)
7089	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay vase. Glazed. Blue, bleached white. Type CCLXXVI. =P.24.
7091	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay vase. Light drab. Rim fragmentary. Type XIV. RC.76. =L.
7092	(none)	(none)	B16580	Clay vase. Light drab. Type RC.56. =L.
7093	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay vase. Light drab. Type CCLXXVII. =L.
7096	(none)	1935,0113.753	(none)	Clay bowl. Black. Burnished. Part of rim lost. Type CCLXIX. =L.
7110A	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta rattle. Common type. 2 convex hemispheres joined together concave sides inwards. Circumferences roughly moulded to form rope like decoration. B.
7561	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. 4 figures, roughly carved. Marduk? and lightening. Gazelle below 2 posts.
7701B	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay cone. Ur Nammu = U.169 etc. etc. (canal of Ur) (good specimen) Another fragment of same (b) Another fragment.

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Media Title	Title	Label	Author	Omeka Label
Ur Excavations VII; The Old Babylonian Period	Ur Excavations VII; The Old Babylonian Period	1976	Woolley, L. and M. Mallowan	(none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards	Woolley's Field Note Cards	Ur_Notes_v1_p042	Ur_Notes_v1_p042	(none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards	Woolley's Field Note Cards	Ur_Notes_v1_p043	Ur_Notes_v1_p043	(none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards	Woolley's Field Note Cards	Ur_Notes_v1_p044	Ur_Notes_v1_p044	(none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards	Woolley's Field Note Cards	Ur_Notes_v1_p124	Ur_Notes_v1_p124	(none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards	Woolley's Field Note Cards	Ur_Notes_v1_p124back	Ur_Notes_v1_p124back	(none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards	Woolley's Field Note Cards	Ur_Notes_v1_p126back	Ur_Notes_v1_p126back	(none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards	Woolley's Field Note Cards	Ur_Notes_v4_p249	Ur_Notes_v4_p249	(none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards	Woolley's Field Note Cards	Ur_Notes_v4_p250c	Ur_Notes_v4_p250c	(none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards	Woolley's Field Note Cards	Ur_Notes_v4_p251	Ur_Notes_v4_p251	(none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards	Woolley's Field Note Cards	Ur_Notes_v4_p252	Ur_Notes_v4_p252	(none)