Ningal Temple | Unit C | A-P 1-8
| Context Title: | Ningal Temple | Unit C | A-P 1-8 |
| Context Name (Publication): | Ningal Temple |
| Context Name (Excavation): | Unit C |
| Context Name (Excavation): | Unit A-P 1-8 |
| Context Description: | The sanctuary stood as a complete and independent entity. Rooms and courts are all interconnected, It has it's own name, the E.NUN. It has a similar plan to private houses with added features like washing places, stele, benches, etc. There are storage jars, weavers pits, a large kitchen, and economic tablets attest to a varied activities involved in running an estate. |
| Culture/Period: | Ur III; Old Babylonian; Kassite; Assyrian; Neo-Babylonian |
Files
| Object | U Number | Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) | Museum Number (BM Registration Number) | Museum Number (UPM B-number) | Description (Catalog Card) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6612 | (none) | (none) | B16665 | Alabaster stela. Fragment: broken but complete. Lunar disk. Religious? Scene. Three figures only remain in relief on the left - shaven male figure, right arm extended, upper arm only remains. Lower part of body fragmentary. Figure is apparently in profile. Middle figure head lost: left arm mutilated and lower portion of dress lost: arms and apparently head in profile but body full face. Figure is clothed in flounced kaunakas skirt, 6 tiers of flounces showing. Dress covered upper arm but left forearm exposed. Left hand rests on chest, right arm held upright and hand lost. Behind, a clean shaven bald-headed male figure, 3/4 face, left arm held below breast; right arm bent at elbow and held upright carrying an object which may be a torch. Left hand holds a sword which runs diagonally across left side. Figure is apparently draped in a thin waist cloth, mutilated below waist. Typical Sumerian head. At back fragment of an inscription. | |
 | 6444 | (none) | 1927,0527.37 | (none) | HEAD of female. FRAGMENT. Black Diorite. Left eye and left side of forehead mutilated. Hair represented by fine wavy parallel lines and done up in a chignon, overhanging loop at the back as in the diorite statue of UR-BAU. To go in Cat I of Vol. IV. |
| 6398 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay tablet. Receipt. Dated. Samsuiluna year 12. H.C. [drawing] |
| 6397 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay tablet. Receipt. Dated. Sumuilu year 28th. Seal of Azagd Lugal marda (priest of the ) prayers of the shrine of Ningal son of Na-di, servant of Sumuilu. H.C. |
| 6396 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay tablet. Receipt. Dated. Sumuilu year 29th. H.C. | |
| 6395 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay tablet. Receipt. Dated. Sumuilu year 15th. H.C. | |
| 6394 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay tablet. Receipt. Dated. Sumuilu year 16th. H.C. |
| 6393 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay tablet. Receipt. Dated. Sumuilu year 14th. H.C. |
| 6392 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay tablet. Receipt. Dated. Sumuilu year 9th. H.C. |
| 6391 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay tablet. Receipt. Dated. Sumuilu year 5th. H.C. |
| 6390 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay tablet. Receipt. Dated. Sumuilu year 4th. H.C. |
| 6389 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay tablet. Receipt. Dated. Sumuilu year 4th. Seal of Azagd Lugal marda (priest of) prayers of the shrine of Nurgal, sone of Nadi. U.6397 - Dated Sumuila year 28th, adds to the above seal? servant of Sumuilu H.C. |
| 6388 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay tablet. Receipt. Dated. Sumuilu year 3rd. H.C. |
| 6387 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay tablet. Receipt. Dated. Sumuilu year 3rd. H.C. | |
| 6386 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay tablet. Receipt. Dated. Abisare year 3rd. H.C. |
| 6385 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay tablet. Receipt. Dated Abisare year 11th. H.C. | |
| 6384 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay tablet. Receipt. Dated. Abisare year 10th. H.C. |
| 6383 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay tablet. Receipt. Dated Gungunu year 25th. H.C. |
| 6382 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay tablet. Receipt. Dated Gungunu year 21st. H.C. |
| 6381 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay tablet. Dated. Gungunu 6th year. H.C. |
| 6380 | (none) | 1927,0527.29 | (none) | Diorite cup. Inscribed. Fragment. Dedicatetd to ( ), for the life of ( ?) mighty king, king of Ur, Lugal kagina son of Ur-Utu, his servant, has presented. H.C. E. |
| 6367 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay sealing. Sealed with 4 cylinder seals of Samsuiluna's servants. 10) Seal of Ilishu-ibishu cf. U.6360; 20) Ahu-shunu son of Imdi-Enlil, servant of Samsuiluna; 30) ( )wa-ti-bu(um), archive keeper of Nannar son of Ilukashu the diviner, servant of Samauiluna.; 40)Illegible.; H.C. |
| 6366 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Large oolite plate. To Ningal, his lady Ur-Nammu, the mighty man, king of Ur, king of Sumer and Akkad, for his life has presented. Type XXX. B. H.C. |
| 6365 | (none) | 1927,0527.67 | (none) | Fragment of alabaster vase. Linear inscription on the flat rim of the mouth. To d'ama-geshtin [x ], wife of Usal, for her life, for her children, has devoted this. E. H.C. |
| 6363 | (none) | (none) | B16205 | Fragment of an Alabaster Stela of Rim-Sin. Rebuilds E-nun-azag to (Nin-Gal). E. |
Sibling Locations
Giparu | HDB - Giparu | SF - NB/41 | KPG/C - NB/S4 - P/1 | KPCG/1 - P/2 | KPCG/2 - P/6 | KPG/B - Unit A | A-P 12-17 - Unit B | A-P 8-11
Child Locations
Room C1 | B-C 2-3 - Room C10 | D-F 2-3 - Room C11 | F-G 3-4 - Room C12 | G3-4 - Room C13 | F-G 7-8 - Room C14 | E-F 7-8 - Room C15 | D-E 7-8 - Room C16 | C-D 7-8 - Room C17 | C 7-8 - Room C18 | B 7-8 - Room C19 | H 4-5 - Room C2 | B-C 3-4 - Room C20 | H 6-7 - Room C21 | J 4-5 - Room C22 | J 6-7 - Room C23 | J 7-8 - Room C24 | H-G 7-8 - Room C25 | H-J 3-4 - Room C26 | H-J 2-3 - Room C27 | K 5-6 - Room C28 | K 4-5 - Room C29 | K-M 2-3 - Room C3 | B-C 4-6 - Room C30 | K4 - Room C31 | L 4-6 - Room C32 | K-L 7-8 - Room C33 | M 7-8 - Room C34 | M 6-7 - Room C35 | N-O 7-8 - Room C36 | M-N 7-8 - Room C37 | N-O 4-7 - Room C38 | M 4-6 - Room C39 | M 4 - Room C4 | B6-7 - Room C40 | N 4 - Room C41 | N 3 - Room C42 | N-O 3 - Room C43 | N-O 2-3 - Room C5 | C6 - Room C6 | C6 - Room C7 | D-G 4-7 - Room C8 | E-F 3-4 - Room C9 | D-E 3-4