No. 2 Quiet Street

Context Title: No. 2 Quiet Street     
Context Name (Publication): No. 2 Quiet Street1     
Location Type: Domestic     
Notes: This house belonged to Sin-iqisam, a gudapsu of Nanna and archivist for Hammurapi. His father and son, both named Ilsu-ibbisu, held the same titles during the reign of Samsu-iluna. Evidence of clay seal-impressions and cylinder seals were found in room 11 of this domicile and the Ningal Temple. 2     
[1] Imported from BM list of contexts.
[2] Woolley publication

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Object U Number Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) Museum Number (BM Registration Number) Museum Number (UPM B-number) Description (Catalog Card)
7574 (none) (none) (none) Stone fragment of statute. Human right hand, life size. Missing above knuckles. Blue diorite. Forefingers bent and grasping the back of the second hand? Skin round nails neatly pared and rounded off. [drawing 1:3]
7576A (none) (none) (none) [A-B] 2 clay bowls. Glazed. Blue, bleached white. Found together one firmly waged into the other. Portion of rim of B missing. Type CCLXXVI. =P.24 Kassite.
7576B (none) (none) (none) [A-B] 2 clay bowls. Glazed. Blue, bleached white. Found together one firmly wedged into the other. Portion of rim of B missing. Type CCLXXVI. =P.24 Kassite.
7583 (none) (none) B16903 Cylinder seal. Fragment. Marble, White Scene of worship. Heavily draped god seated on throne without a back holding in outstretched left hand a bird? Above double crescent moon? & between seated god and advancing figure a second bird? Second advancing fig. clean shaven, & heavily draped in long flairing skirt, behind him a goose? and behind the goose a goddess? in a flounced kaunakes skirt, both arms upraised? Behind the throne of the seated god Gilgamesh? with tail.
7700 (none) (none) (none) Clay seal impression. Roughly cube-shaped lump with beginning of same inscription on each face. cf. U.6360, doubtless seal of son of present Sinikisan who had same name as his grandfather Ilusu-ibisa. Date = Hammurabi. HC.3
7784 (none) (none) (none) Seal impression Shape as U.7714 Seal of Ilushu-ibisha son of Siniqishum Inscription identical with U.7700; shows also figure of worshipper. Hammurabi
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UPM Field Photo numbers UPM Field Photo numbers (none) (none) (none)
Ur Excavations VII; The Old Babylonian Period Ur Excavations VII; The Old Babylonian Period 1976 Woolley, L. and M. Mallowan (none)
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Woolley, L. and M. Mallowan . (1976) Ur Excavations VII; The Old Babylonian Period, Oxford: Oxford University Press.