Mausoleum Site | BC

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Context Title:	Mausoleum Site \| BC
Context Name (Excavation):	Bur-Sin Corner; BC
Context Name (Publication):	Mausoleum of Dungi; Shulgi Mausoleum; Mausoleum Site
Context Description:	Woolley called the east corner of the Neo-Babylonian temenos the Bur-Sin Corner (area BC) because he found bricks of Bur-Sin (now read Amar-Sin or Amar-Suen) there in early season explorations. Area BC is particularly complex because it consists of substantial building in many periods. The largest building was of the Ur III period, and it is this building to which the abbreviation BC typically refers in field notes. It sits at the northeastern edge of the Royal Cemetery. The main Ur III building was 35 x 27m and its southwest wall was preserved two meters in height, while its northeast wall was largely destroyed. Its walls were built with inscribed bricks of Shulgi. The overall layout of the building is much like a courtyard house but on a large scale and with more ritual furnishings. Attached to this building were two annexes, one northwest and the other southeast, built with bricks of Shulgi's son, Amar-Sin (see context AD). Beneath the entire building were three very large vaults. All of them had been plundered in antiquity and only scattered fragments of artifacts and bones were discovered inside. Nonetheless, Woolley believed that these vaults originally held the remains of the Ur III kings. For this reason, area BC is sometimes referred to as the Mausoleum Site. The building was destroyed by Elamites, according to Woolley, and sometime thereafter houses of the Isin-Larsa/Old Babylonian period were constructed in the area (see House 30). Finally, the Neo-Babylonian Temenos wall was constructed over and through parts of the remains.
Season Number:	09: 1930-1931
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)
16034	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay cone. Fragment. Apparently the same inscirption as Ur Inscription 106 (Libit-Ishtar, building of E-gig-par), with variant in line 13 of col. I d.Inanna me-en. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16035	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay tablet. Business document. Date: mu-ugnim ma-al-gum gidstukul ba-an-sig Year when the host of Malgum was smitten with arms A variant of Ur Inscription 259 which is probably Gungunum 19 (see loc.cit., note) [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16036	52-30-112, 52-30-112	(none)	(none)	Clay Tablet. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16037	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay Tablet. Fragment. Business document. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16039	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay Tablet. Commerical date: Year in which the priest of Eridu was... (Dungi 36) (SAKI 239) [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16040	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay tablet. Commercial. Date: Year in whcih Gimil-Sin (king of Ur) laid waste the land of (Za)bshali. (SAKI, 234) (Gimil-Sin 7) [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16041	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay Tablet. Commericial. Rev. At the feet of (?) Lu-Ba-u, the scribe, and ...scribe of the Palace. Obv. Surface of tablet covered with seal -impressions, reading: Ibi-Sin the mighty king of Ur and the same of a scribe ... son of Ur...ga(?). Date: Year when Ibi-Sin, King of Ur, overwhelmed like a storm Susa, Adam-dun, and the land of Awan, subdued them in one day and captured... (Ur Insc 210, 211) [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16042	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay tablet. (broken) Commercial. Date: Year (in which) he bro(ug)ht (a ...throne for Babbar) Nur-Adad. (SAKI 236) [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16043	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay tablet. Commercial. Date:Year when the great wall was built. This is to be compared with Ur Inscription 209 the date of which reads:Year after the great wall was built after that which is possible the 6th year of Gimil-Sin. Hence 16043 is possibly to be dated as the 4th year of Gimil-Sin. H.C. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16044	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay tablet. Commercial. Date: very difficult to decipher. It appears to begin with mu-gadgal... Year in which the great wall? [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16045	(none)	1948,0423.80	(none)	[CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card] Clay Tablet. Commercial. Date:Year in which Shashru was destroyed Dungi 40 or Bur-Sin 6 (SAKI)
16046	47-29-404, 47-29-404	(none)	(none)	Clay tablet. Commercial [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16047	(none)	1931,1010.7	(none)	Clay cone. Fragment. A few signs of the base left. Evidently an inscription of Nur-Ada. amking the revolt of Naid-Shamash at Ur, and his expulsion, for which see Ur Inscription III HC. 30/2, 1 [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16048	(none)	1931,1010.5	(none)	Stone Inscription (pebble) Inscribed with quantities of silver, copper and ... Archaic script. HC.30/VII, 2 [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16049	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay tablet. Commercial. Date:-year in which Anshan was laid waste. Dungi 32 (SAKI 231) [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16050	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay Tablet. Commercial. Date:-Year after the wall was built. Possibly a shorter variant of Gimil-Sin 5 (SAKI 234), in which The wall of Mar-tu (var . Martuki is written. cf. also Ur Inscription 209, note. HC. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16051	47-29-76, 47-29-76	(none)	(none)	Clay tablet. Commercial. Date: Year in which Gimil-Sin, King of Ur, made for Enlil and Ninlil the exalted...ship Gimil-Sin 8 (SAKI 234) [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16052	(none)	(none)	(none)	Shaped brick. Moulded for building round buttresses of BC Bur-Sin. See SAKI 196(b) [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16054	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay tablet. Commercial. Date: Year after which Simunu and Lulubu were laid waste for the ninth time. Dungi 43 (SAKI 232, note (n)) [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16066	47-29-71, 47-29-71	(none)	(none)	Clay tablet. Commercial. Date: Year after Simurru and Lulubu were destroyed for the ninth time. Dungi 43 (SAKI 232) [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16069	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay tablet. Fragment. Date: Year in which the high-priest Nannar was designated by omens )?) Dungi 41 (SAKI 232) [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16071	47-29-70, 47-29-70	(none)	(none)	Clay tablet. Commercial. Date: Partially lost, probably Dungi 30 or 42 [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16072	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay tablet. Commercial. Date: Year when Harsi was laid waste Dungi 46 (SAKI 232) [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16074	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay tablet. Commercial. Date: fragment. Year when the hih-priest of ( the cult of) Dun(gi was appointed and...) See SAKI 235. 6 K [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16078	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay tablet. Commercial. Date: i.q. 16069 - Dungi 41 (SAKI 232) [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]

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Media: Mausoleum Site | BC Export: JSON - XML - CSV Woolley's Field Note Cards

Media Title	Title	Label	Author	Omeka Label
Woolley's Field Note Cards	Woolley's Field Note Cards	Ur_Notes_v2_p284	Ur_Notes_v2_p284	(none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards	Woolley's Field Note Cards	Ur_Notes_v2_p285	Ur_Notes_v2_p285	(none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards	Woolley's Field Note Cards	Ur_Notes_v2_p286	Ur_Notes_v2_p286	(none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards	Woolley's Field Note Cards	Ur_Notes_v2_p287	Ur_Notes_v2_p287	(none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards	Woolley's Field Note Cards	Ur_Notes_v2_p288	Ur_Notes_v2_p288	(none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards	Woolley's Field Note Cards	Ur_Notes_v2_p289	Ur_Notes_v2_p289	(none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards	Woolley's Field Note Cards	Ur_Notes_v2_p290	Ur_Notes_v2_p290	(none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards	Woolley's Field Note Cards	Ur_Notes_v2_p291	Ur_Notes_v2_p291	(none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards	Woolley's Field Note Cards	Ur_Notes_v2_p292	Ur_Notes_v2_p292	(none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards	Woolley's Field Note Cards	Ur_Notes_v2_p293	Ur_Notes_v2_p293	(none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards	Woolley's Field Note Cards	Ur_Notes_v2_p294	Ur_Notes_v2_p294	(none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards	Woolley's Field Note Cards	Ur_Notes_v2_p295	Ur_Notes_v2_p295	(none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards	Woolley's Field Note Cards	Ur_Notes_v2_p296	Ur_Notes_v2_p296	(none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards	Woolley's Field Note Cards	Ur_Notes_v2_p297	Ur_Notes_v2_p297	(none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards	Woolley's Field Note Cards	Ur_Notes_v2_p298	Ur_Notes_v2_p298	(none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards	Woolley's Field Note Cards	Ur_Notes_v2_p299	Ur_Notes_v2_p299	(none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards	Woolley's Field Note Cards	Ur_Notes_v2_p300	Ur_Notes_v2_p300	(none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards	Woolley's Field Note Cards	Ur_Notes_v2_p301	Ur_Notes_v2_p301	(none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards	Woolley's Field Note Cards	Ur_Notes_v2_p302	Ur_Notes_v2_p302	(none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards	Woolley's Field Note Cards	Ur_Notes_v2_p303	Ur_Notes_v2_p303	(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_p307	Ur_Notes_v2_p307	(none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards	Woolley's Field Note Cards	Ur_Notes_v2_p308	Ur_Notes_v2_p308	(none)