PDW
| Context Title: | PDW |
| Context Name (Excavation): | PDW |
| Context Name (Publication): | Ziggurat Terrace |
| Context Description: | The excavation area abbreviation PDW derives from the fact that the area lies to the west of the area designated PD, the Great Nanna Courtyard. Area PDW is on the ziggurat terrace itself, but includes only the north and northeast portion of the terrace since the Great Nanna Courtyard does not extend to the southern ziggurat terrace. The southern terrace was excavated under the abbreviation HD. Some of the finds from either side of the terrace may also be coded ZT. Legrain lists PDW as specifically the deep trench within the Ur-Nammu terrace, but this is almost certainly a reference to PAT, later called Pit K, a pit dug within PDW. Area PDW included the investigation of the Bastion of Warad Sin at the northern corner of the ziggurat terrace and essentially part of the northern temenos wall. This structure was possibly a defensive gate that led onto the terrace in the Isin-Larsa/Old Babylonian period, expanded somewhat in the Kassite. It had thick walls and a potential sally-port gateway. Other structures uncovered here included the Ur III shrine to Nanna and its Neo-Babylonian counterpart as well as various potential storage rooms. Two deep pits were begun here in season 3 and completed in season 8, see area abbreviations Pit K and Pit L. Much other work was done on the northwest terrace in later seasons, particularly 9 and 10. See excavation area abbreviation NCF. |
| Season Number: | 03: 1924-1925 |
| Object | U Number | Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) | Museum Number (BM Registration Number) | Museum Number (UPM B-number) | Description (Catalog Card) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 2569C | (none) | (none) | (none) | Baked Brick. Stamp of "En-an-na-tum, the beloved pries of Nannar, High priest of Nannar, in Ur, son of Ishme-Dagan, King of Sumer and Akkad" (6 lines). Ishme-Dagan, king of Isin about BC 2100 |
| 2570 | (none) | (none) | B16496, B16496 | Baked brick. Broken. Drawing resembles cuneiform sign for wall tomb [drawing 1:2] | |
| 2571 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Figurine. Drab clay. Nude female, suckling child; head and legs missing. Depth 2-5m [drawing 1:1] |
| 2572 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Ring. Pottery: roughly joined. Depth 2m-5m. [drawing 1:1] |
| 2574 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bone stilus? Writing end broken. Depth 2m-5m. |
| 2575 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Glass bowl. Fragmentary, blue glass, translucent, design of dots and lines. [drawing 1:1] |
| 2576 | (none) | 1927,1003.35 | (none) | Clay cone of Ibi-Sin. Fragment. -About BC 2190. Text: "dIbi-ilSin, god of the "country, (powerful) king, king (of Ur) "king (of Sumer and Akkad)? "- 6 or 7 lines missing - two last lines "illegible." H.C. |
| 2578 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Inscribed black clay tablet of circular form? Fragment of school exercise or litany has 2 on obverse. 3 lines on the reverse. The name; dNannar ( ) About BC 2100? |
| 2579 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay tablet. Fragment. School exercise - List of signs: Gish: wood object. c. BC 2100 |
| 2580 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay tablet. Fragment. School exercise - List of signs. c. BC 2100 |
| 2585 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Black clay tablet. Pillow shape. Dated: 29th Siwan, 5th year of Cambyses - BC 524. Text: ?barley regular ration (bal-la) for 3 bulls, ?ga barley, fodder (kissatta) For 13 sheep, total 20 1/2 qa barley (for the day) Obverse 5 lines. Reverse 1 line. H.C. |
| 2597 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Seal. Green glaze. Cynophelous monkey intaglio: pierced for suspension. [drawing 1:1] |
| 2605 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Pottery fragment. Buff clay, inscribed with couchant lion. [drawing 1:1] |
| 2607 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Fragment of clay horse. Head and legs missing; saddled. [drawing 1:1] |
| 2608 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay figurine. Dark buff clay. Bearded and mitred figure, head only. [drawing 1:1] |
| 2609 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay figurine. Greenish glaze, head only. [drawing 1:1] |
| 2618 | (none) | 1927,1003.95 | (none) | Copper ingot. Well preserved but uninscribed. [drawing 1:2] | |
| 2632 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay pot. Pinkish drab ware: wheel made. Type. CXXVII. [drawing] |
| 2635B | (none) | (none) | (none) | Pottery vase. Unglazed greenish buff clay. Type CXXIX =L. (not p) Associated with U.2654 |
| 2636 | (none) | 1927,1003.120 | (none) | Clay flower(?) pot. Pinkish ware, unglazed : pierced at bottom. Type CXXX. Type drawing in album. [drawing] | |
| 2637 | (none) | 1927,1003.39 | (none) | Clay cone. Fragment of stem. Half of column II(?) Date ?? King of Larsa. Text: (x--) babbar Ab (ancient?) of E-Babbar / Fix destiny / decisions / --- / army of Larsa / may? / its food prosper / its good? / its harvester.. / be prosperous? H.C. |
| 2638 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Pot fragment. Marble, with him in low relief, standing on brick pavement. [drawing 1:2] |
| 2642 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay pot. Drab clay. Type drawing in album. Type CXXXI. =P.68 [drawing] |
| 2648 | (none) | 1927,1003.12 | (none) | Clay cone of Ur-Engur. Text: To Nannar strong bull of heaven, eldest son of Enlil, his king, has Ur-Engur, the mighty hero, the king of Ur built E-temen-ni-il Found in position in a mud brick. |
| 2651 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Barrel shaped clay cone of Arad-Sin. Fragment Col II 11-25. CF U.2528, U.2565, U.2612, U.2613, U.2617, U.2622 |
| Media | Media Title | Title | Label | Author | Omeka Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ur Excavations V: The Ziggurat and its Surroundings | Ur Excavations V: The Ziggurat and its Surroundings | 1939 | Woolley Leonard | (none) |
| Ur Excavations IV; The Early Periods | Ur Excavations IV; The Early Periods | 1955 | Woolley, L. | (none) |
| Woolley's Field Note Cards | Woolley's Field Note Cards | Ur_Notes_v2_p160 | Ur_Notes_v2_p160 | (none) | |
| Woolley's Field Note Cards | Woolley's Field Note Cards | Ur_Notes_v2_p211 | Ur_Notes_v2_p211 | (none) | |
| Woolley's Field Note Cards | Woolley's Field Note Cards | Ur_Notes_v2_p212 | Ur_Notes_v2_p212 | (none) | |
| Woolley's Field Note Cards | Woolley's Field Note Cards | Ur_Notes_v2_p213 | Ur_Notes_v2_p213 | (none) | |
| Woolley's Field Note Cards | Woolley's Field Note Cards | Ur_Notes_v2_p214 | Ur_Notes_v2_p214 | (none) | |
| Woolley's Field Note Cards | Woolley's Field Note Cards | Ur_Notes_v2_p215 | Ur_Notes_v2_p215 | (none) | |
| Woolley's Field Note Cards | Woolley's Field Note Cards | Ur_Notes_v2_p219 | Ur_Notes_v2_p219 | (none) | |
| Woolley's Field Note Cards | Woolley's Field Note Cards | Ur_Notes_v4_p121 | Ur_Notes_v4_p121 | (none) | |
| Woolley's Field Note Cards | Woolley's Field Note Cards | Ur_Notes_v4_p218 | Ur_Notes_v4_p218 | (none) |
- 11 Media
Sibling Locations
Courtyard BB - Ningal Temple | HD - Room FF - Room GG - Room SW 2 - Ziggurat
Child Locations
L.3 - Pit K | Ziggurat Pit A | PAT - Pit L | Ziggurat Pit B | PBT
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Context
Ur > Ziggurat Terrace | ZT > PDW
References
Woolley, L. . (1955) Ur Excavations IV; The Early Periods, Oxford: Oxford University Press.