Nimintabba Temple | DT

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Context Title:	Nimintabba Temple \| DT
Context Name (Excavation):	Dim-tab-ba Temple
Context Name (Publication):	Nimintabba Temple
Context Description:	The abbreviation DT stands for Dungi's Temple or Dimtabba Temple and this abbreviation is found within the larger EH excavation area; Woolley discovered cylinders inscribed with the name of Shulgi beneath a partly ruined floor in area EH and assigned the building it was associated with an excavation abbreviation of its own. The building's walls were almost completely destroyed, however, and thus were difficult to follow. They lay in the northwestern portion of area EH and originally defined a temple dedicated to the god Nimintabba (Woolley initially read the name as Dim-Tab-Ba). The ephemeral remains of the temple stretched underneath and beyond the Neo-Babylonian temenos wall and Woolley expanded excavation in search of the rest, but little more of the temple was found. The westward expansion of the excavation beyond the temenos wall became excavation area abbreviation DP.
Season Number:	04: 1925-1926
Culture/Period:	Ur III

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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)
6306	(none)	(none)	(none)	Diorite STATUE of SHULGI. Mutilated. King standing with hands clasped as a worshipper. "To Nannar, his king, Shulgi, the mighty one "King of Ur (king of S and A), for his life, has "presented it. This statue: Nannar the wall (_________ so is the name of the statue)." King is dressed with a fringed shawl passing over the left shoulder. B. Photo 558 H.C. Text: Dim-tab-ba Temple(3)
6464	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay vase. Light drab. Cf U.6462. Type.
6465B	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay vase. Light drab. Neck and foot broken. N. [Evage8?]. Card received from mallowan. 1976, Read.
6467A	(none)	(none)	(none)	3 miniature clay vases. Light drab. (A) and (B) have a hole pierced in either side of neck.
6467B	(none)	(none)	(none)	3 miniature clay vases. Light drab. (A) and (B) have a hole pierced in either side of neck.
6467C	(none)	(none)	(none)	3 miniature clay vases. Light drab. (A) and (B) have a hole pierced in either side of neck.
6484	(none)	(none)	B16613	Clay vase. Light drab. Flat rim. Type CCXXV. Variant. Flat rim. =RC.16 or 243.
6490	(none)	(none)	(none)	Bronze pin. B.
6492	(none)	(none)	(none)	Bronze pencil? B.
6493	(none)	(none)	(none)	Bronze pin. Slightly curved below. B.
6494	(none)	(none)	B16416	Bronze pin. Spiral top.
6495	(none)	(none)	(none)	2 fossilized fish bones.
6497	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta figurine. Hand modeled. Fragmentary. Primitive head, nose beak shaped, left arm ending in a stump, right arm missing, feet lost. Figure is entirely covered by long garment with thick embroidered band U-shaped in front, V-shaped behind. On it 4 round clay pellets one on either shoulder, one in front, one behind. Eyes also represented by pellet. Side of garment sharply modeled below waist, traces of modeling on waist. Hole pierced through middle of figure. B. [drawing]
6499	(none)	(none)	B16297	Cylinder seal Pink marble or diorite Piece of copper wire mounting inside Four animals. Sheep or goats - two of which are crossed Two scorpions. L 002 diam 0015 About BC 3100. E.
6507	(none)	(none)	(none)	Pin bronze. B.
6510	(none)	(none)	B16409	Pin Bronze. E.
6513	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta boat. Hole pierced through top of prow. Cf. U.6478
6515	(none)	(none)	(none)	Red clay bowl. Fragment. Stamped decoration below rim, triangles with invested bases above and concentric circles below.
6523	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta boat. Miniature. B.
6524	(none)	(none)	B16608	Clay vase. Miniature. Type LVII.
6525	(none)	(none)	(none)	[Two catalog cards exist for this object, both are represented.] Stone tool. [Second card follows] Tool stone. E. [drawing 1:1]
6527	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta figurine. Fragmentary. Bearded man holding sheath in left hand. B. [drawing 1:1]
6529	(none)	(none)	(none)	Flint tool. Fragmentary. Leaf shaped. E.
6531	(none)	(none)	(none)	Bronze prong.
6532	(none)	(none)	(none)	Pin. Bronze. B.