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)
6709	(none)	1953,0411.125	(none)	Clay tablet. Dated Sumuilu year 6-8. Inventory of metal - gold, copper - weight of semi-precious stones and of objects in wood and ivory. From the expedition of Dilmun, it's shipload and its tabelts (of accounts) House of Ninigal from month of Bar-azag-gar year 6 (of Sumuilu) to month of Bar-azag-gar year 6 (of Sumuilu) to month of ds-a - year 8.
16004	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay Tablet. Business document. Date: Year in which Gimil-sin, King of Ur, built of the god...of Gis-HU (9th year.) (cf. SAKI. p.234, note 1) [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16005	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay Tablet. Business document. Date Year in which Gimil-Sin, King of Ur, laid waste the land Zabshali (7th year) (cf. SAKI. p.234) [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16006	(none)	(none)	(none)	Lapis lazuli cylinder seal. Adad-rabi, son of Rim-adad. HC.30/I.2 UET 8/2 (hand copied by Legrain)
16007	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay Cone. Fragmentary. Sumu-ilu (Duplicate of Ur inscription, No. 115) Foundation of (E-udda) [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16008	(none)	1931,1010.4	(none)	Diorite Bowl. Fragment. Dungi. Temple of Nin-gis-zida. Inscription HC..30/I,4 UET 8/2 (Hand copied by Legrain) [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16009	(none)	1953,0411.58	(none)	Clay Tablet. business document. Date: Year when Ganhar was laid waste (22 year of Dungi) (SAKI p.230) [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16010	(none)	1948,0423.169	(none)	Clay Tablet. business document(?) Date: Year when Idi-Sin, King of Ur made for Nannar a gods (?) seat. (Ur Inscription 198) [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16011	(none)	1948,0423.321	(none)	Clay tablet. Commercial. Date :Year when Huhunuri was laid waste (7th year of Bur-Sin) (SAKI, p.233) Obv. surface of tablet covered with seal impressions, reading: Ur-?-bi dub-sar dumu LuKa-Ni...dub-sar. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16012	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay cone. Fragment. Libit-Ishtar (see Ur Inscription 106) Building of (E-gig-par). [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16013	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay tablet. Business document. Date: Year when Sin-igisham became King. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16014	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay cone. Fragmentary. Gudea. Building of the Ziggurat of lagash (SAKI 142, 7) [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16015	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay cone. Fragment (Warad-Sin. Building of E-Temennigur) (Duplicate of Ur Inscription 131) [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16016	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay cone. Fragment. (Warad-Sin. building of E-Temennigur) (see 16015) [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16017	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay cone. Fragmentary: base intact. Sumu-ilu. bulding of Eginabtum (Ur inscription 114) [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16018	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay cone. Fragment, base only. (Libit-Ishtar. Building of E-gig-par) [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16027	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay cone. Fragment (Kudur-Mabug) Restoration of Ga(-nun-makh). (Ur Inscription 123) [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16028	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay cone. Fragment. Warad-Sin buidling of (E-temennigur) (Ur Inscription 131) [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16029	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay Tablet. Business document. Fragment. Date: same as U.16010 [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16030	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay Tablet. Business document. One face missing. HC.30/VII, 1. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16031	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay Tablet [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16032	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay cone. Fragment. (Enannatum son of) Ishme-Dagan. Buidling of (Ehilla) and (Egin) abtum. (Duplicateof SAKI, P.206 (b). (See Ur Inscription 114, note on 1.1) [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16033	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay tablet. Fragment of a large thick tablet. historical? contains name of Lukani, patesi of Lagash, and reference to (K)ar-zida. Possibly also fo Ur-bau. HC..[CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum 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]

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Media Title	Title	Label	Author	Omeka Label
Ur Excavations VI; The Ur III Period	Ur Excavations VI; The Ur III Period	1974	Woolley, Leonard	(none)
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_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)