Context Title: Enunmah | TTB | ES     
Context Name (Excavation): TTB; TTB.W; TTB.ES; TTB.SS; ES      
Context Name (Publication): E-nun-mah     
Context Description: That its foundation goes back behind the Third Dynasty of Ur is certain, for fragments of walls and pavements in pIano-convex brick (PI. 30a) prove the fact, but of the character of that original structure nothing can be said. Ur-Nammu was responsible for the temple in its existing form; he built it in mud brick, or at any rate made much use of that material, and his work was added to and probably completed by his son Dungi. Bur-Sin replaced with burnt brick the mud-brick walls of his grandfather and Gimil-Sin added further details. The temple was completely overthrown by the Elamites on the occasion of the downfall of Ibi-Sin and under the Isin Dynasty was rebuilt by Gimil-ilishu, who faithfully followed the lines of the Third Dynasty ground-plan. Ishme-Dagan, Nur-Adad, and Sin-idinnam all in turn undertook repairs of its structure and Kudur-Mabug seems to have done some more radical restoration, but his building was destroyed by the Babylonians in the time of Samsu-iluna. It was probably restored after a fashion not much later, but the first actual record of its re-establishment is that of Kuri-Galzu; the Kassite ruler still kept to the original plan, but added a few new features. His building was repaired, without any noticeable alterations, by Marduk-nadin-ahhe in the 11th century B.C. Nebuchadnezzar was the first to tamper seriously with the ancient ground-plan; his reconstruction involved a complete change of character corresponding to a change of ritual in the temple services, and in the temple as he left it the old E-nun-mah is barely recognisable. Nabonidus repaired but does not seem to have modified his predecessor's work. Finally we find, above the Nabonidus level, remains of a further reconstruction which we can attribute only to Cyrus of Persia.1     
Context Description: The building was an almost exact square measuring some 57.00 m. in either direction; its angles were, as usual, orientated to the cardinal points of the compass. It was surrounded by a wall 2.70 m. thick strengthened by double buttresses, of which there were five on each side, and the area thus enclosed was raised to form a platform about 2.00 m. above the level of the ground outside; this wall is fairly well preserved on the NE (v. Pis. 28b., 29b), has suffered a good deal, and is partly masked by subsequent additions in the SE (PI. 29a), could be traced only by its foundations on the SW, where the building has been remodelled, and on the NW it has been completely eradicated by a drain of Nebuchadnezzar. There is a doorway in the SE wall which, however, would seem to have led only into two small chambers having no communication with the rest of the building. In view of the denudation of the walls, which here do not rise above floor level, it is not possible to assert definitely that such communication never existed, but the facts that the wall between rooms 17 and 18 is whereas in almost every other case the doorways can be distinguished even at this level (rooms 8, 9, and 10 are the sole exceptions), and that no hinge-box or doorsocket stone was found here, make the theory of a door hazardous. Probably the real entrance to the building was in the NW front.1     
[1] UE6 p.45

Objects: Enunmah | TTB | ES Export: JSON - XML - CSV Clay Seals and Sealings

Object U Number Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) Museum Number (BM Registration Number) Museum Number (UPM B-number) Description (Catalog Card)
7917 (none) (none) B16905 Flat seal. Hemispherical. Calcite. Greyish. Animal? design.
7916 (none) (none) B16906 Stamp flat seal. One side convex. Calcite. Greyish. Above a reclining beast, possibly a jackal? and below a second beast with big head.
775 (none) (none) B15248 Carnelian cylinder seal. Archer in chariot driving rt. shoots at kneeling archer l. Late style with a good deal of drill point work, but not bad. ? 8th century.
685 (none) (none) B15249 Cylinder seal. Back steatite. Subject: a seated god approached by 2 supplicants: above, the sun: the composition is divided up by a roughly rendered rope(?) pattern which coils above the god and first supplicant and below the second.[drawing]
497 (none) (none) B15250 Scaraboid. White steatite. inscr. [drawing]
496 (none) (none) B15255 Scarab. Green glaze. Inscr. [drawing]
487 (none) (none) B15256 Chalcedony seal. Same shape as U.486. Subject [referencing drawin] [drawing]
234 (none) (none) B15272 Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Scratchily engraved with 2 versions of a man fighting with a rampant lion. Poor.
  • 8 Objects

Media: Enunmah | TTB | ES Export: JSON - XML - CSV

Media Media Title Title Label Author Omeka Label
Field Photographs Field Photographs GN0032 GN0032 (none)
Field Photographs Field Photographs GN0034 GN0034 (none)
Field Photographs Field Photographs GN0037 GN0037 (none)
Field Photographs Field Photographs GN0040 GN0040 (none)
Field Photographs Field Photographs GN0041 GN0041 (none)
Field Photographs Field Photographs GN0042 GN0042 (none)
Field Photographs Field Photographs GN0046 GN0046 (none)
Field Photographs Field Photographs GN0047 GN0047 (none)
Field Photographs Field Photographs GN0048 GN0048 (none)
Field Photographs Field Photographs GN0051 GN0051 (none)
Field Photographs Field Photographs GN0052 GN0052 (none)
Field Photographs Field Photographs GN0053 GN0053 (none)
Field Photographs Field Photographs GN0054 GN0054 (none)
Field Photographs Field Photographs GN0073 GN0073 (none)
Field Photographs Field Photographs GN0085 GN0085 (none)
Field Photographs Field Photographs GN0092 GN0092 (none)
Field Photographs Field Photographs GN0092 GN0092 (none)
Field Photographs Field Photographs GN0093 GN0093 (none)
Field Photographs Field Photographs GN0094 GN0094 (none)
Field Photographs Field Photographs GN0096 GN0096 (none)
Ur Excavations IX; The Neo-Babylonian and Persian Periods Ur Excavations IX; The Neo-Babylonian and Persian Periods 1962 Woolley, L. and Mallowan, Max (none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Ur_Notes_v2_p030 Ur_Notes_v2_p030 (none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Ur_Notes_v2_p164 Ur_Notes_v2_p164 (none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Ur_Notes_v4_p141 Ur_Notes_v4_p141 (none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Ur_Notes_v4_p142 Ur_Notes_v4_p142 (none)

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References

Woolley, Leonard. (1974) Ur Excavations VI; The Ur III Period, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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Woolley, L. and Mallowan, Max. (1962) Ur Excavations IX; The Neo-Babylonian and Persian Periods, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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