House 30/C

Context Title: House 30/C     
Context Name (Publication): House 30/C     
Context Name (Excavation): House 30     
Context Description: Five houses of the Isin-Larsa/Old Babylonian period infringed upon the ruins of the Shulgi Mausoleum and its Amar-Sin annexes. In fact, the houses were built almost directly above its remains and it is curious to think that the large and important mausolea would have faded so completely from memory that houses would be built here 100 - 200 years later. Woolley felt that the Elamite destruction had been severe enough to accomplish this. The southwest wall of the mausolea remained to a height of 2 meters while the northeast wall was substantially ruined and it is this northeastern side that is most heavily built over. Woolley excavated these houses quickly in his effort to uncover the larger Ur III structure and numbered them as one unit, House 30. Later he separated the plans into individual houses, labeled House 30 A-E. All were badly denuded and few finds came from them, though typically there were also graves beneath the floors that are better recorded. These and drainpipes often disturbed parts of the ruined mausolea below.     
Context Description: Very little remains of this building.      
Culture/Period: Old Babylonian      
Location Type: Domestic     

Objects: House 30/C Export: JSON - XML - CSV

Object U Number Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) Museum Number (BM Registration Number) Museum Number (UPM B-number) Description (Catalog Card)
16275 (none) (none) (none) Clay pot. Drab clay, the rim painted black. Rim partly missing. Type CCCCCLIV. L.77 new.
16276 (none) (none) (none) Clay Vase. Plain reddish drab clay. Type CCCCCLV. L81a (new)
16277 (none) (none) (none) Clay vase. Plain reddish drab clay with well levigated surface.
16280A 31-43-112 (none) (none) A set, found together, with a copper weight (?) all decayed. (A) Duck weight, hematite. weight 2.24 grs. =16 "little sheqels" (exactly) Type VI. (B) Duck weight, hematite. weight 1.152 grs.=8 little sheqels (nominal weight 1.12 grs.) Type VI (C) Pink limestone, [Drawing 1:1] In section thus, weight 3.968 grs. perh= 1/2 sheqel (4.208 grs.) Type ? (D) Shell, similar shape to last but less regular, weight 1.792 grs. (Nominal weight 1.68 grs.) Type ?
16280B 31-43-113 (none) (none) A set, found together, with a copper weight (?) all decayed. (A) Duck weight, hematite. weight 2.24 grs. =16 "little sheqels" (exactly) Type VI. (B) Duck weight, hematite. weight 1.152 grs.=8 little sheqels (nominal weight 1.12 grs.) Type VI (C) Pink limestone, [Drawing 1:1] In section thus, weight 3.968 grs. perh= 1/2 sheqel (4.208 grs.) Type ? (D) Shell, similar shape to last but less regular, weight 1.792 grs. (Nominal weight 1.68 grs.) Type ?
16280C 31-43-125 (none) (none) A set, found together, with a copper weight (?) all decayed. (A) Duck weight, hematite. weight 2.24 grs. =16 "little sheqels" (exactly) Type VI. (B) Duck weight, hematite. weight 1.152 grs.=8 little sheqels (nominal weight 1.12 grs.) Type VI (C) Pink limestone, [Drawing 1:1] In section thus, weight 3.968 grs. perh= 1/2 sheqel (4.208 grs.) Type ? (D) Shell, similar shape to last but less regular, weight 1.792 grs. (Nominal weight 1.68 grs.) Type ?
16280D 31-43-126 (none) (none) A set, found together, with a copper weight (?) all decayed. (A) Duck weight, hematite. weight 2.24 grs. =16 "little sheqels" (exactly) Type VI. (B) Duck weight, hematite. weight 1.152 grs.=8 little sheqels (nominal weight 1.12 grs.) Type VI (C) Pink limestone, [Drawing 1:1] In section thus, weight 3.968 grs. perh= 1/2 sheqel (4.208 grs.) Type ? (D) Shell, similar shape to last but less regular, weight 1.792 grs. (Nominal weight 1.68 grs.) Type ?
16281 (none) 1931,1010.397 (none) Terracotta relief. Fragmentary. Shamash(?) and 3 minor gods? [drawing 1:1]
16282A (none) (none) (none) [A-B] Terracotta. roughly moulded in high relief two replicas from the same mould; in each case only the upper part preserved. Kassite(?). [drawing 1:1]
16282B (none) 1931,1010.414 (none) [A-B] Terracotta. roughly moulded in high relief two replicas from the same mould; in each case only the upper part preserved. Kassite(?). [drawing 1:1]
16297 (none) (none) (none) Copper Bowl, Hemispherical, the base slightly flattened. Tentative drawing. RC3. [drawing]
16300 31-43-380 (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Fragment. Legs missing. Draped female figure, the head disproportionately large. [drawing 1:1]
16401 31-43-342 (none) (none) Terracotta Figurine. Camel. The rider has been broken off. Hand modeled, rough. [drawing 1:1]
16512 (none) (none) (none) Clay tablet. Date: mu-us-sa 6-kam i-si-in-na ba-dib-ba Rim-Sin. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
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Media: House 30/C Export: JSON - XML - CSV

Media 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_v2_p304 Ur_Notes_v2_p304 (none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Ur_Notes_v2_p305 Ur_Notes_v2_p305 (none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Ur_Notes_v2_p306 Ur_Notes_v2_p306 (none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Ur_Notes_v2_p314 Ur_Notes_v2_p314 (none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Ur_Notes_v2_p315 Ur_Notes_v2_p315 (none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Ur_Notes_v2_p316 Ur_Notes_v2_p316 (none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Ur_Notes_v2_p327 Ur_Notes_v2_p327 (none)
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References

Woolley, L. and M. Mallowan . (1976) Ur Excavations VII; The Old Babylonian Period, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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