Description (Catalog Card): [A-B] 2 painted pots. Baked clay. Badly broken. 1 certainly complete the other probably complete.1     
Find Context (Catalog Card): Found under Sin-Iddinam's base. PD.     
Material (Catalog Card): Clay3     
U Number: 13033B     
Museum: University of Pennsylvania Museum      
Object Type: Vessels/Containers >> Closed Forms >> Pots      
Season Number: 07: 1928-1929      
Description (Modern): Restricted Spherical Jar with broken neck and rim. Possible paint between shoulder an neck, and around base. Broken and repaired. Reddish brown clay with Red paint. U number on object.2     
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Clay >> Fired >> Pottery/Ceramic      
Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number): 31-17-328     
Measurement (Diameter): 1212     
Measurement (X): 922     
[1] Woolley's description
[2] Data collected during Penn Museum conservation review of ceramics.
[3] Material as described by Woolley

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Location Context Title Context Description Description (Modern)
Great Nanna Courtyard | PD The meaning of this two-letter designation is unclear. It may derive from Woolley's search for Shulgi's palace and may thus stand for Palace of Dungi. Woolley came to realize, however, that it was an enormous courtyard surrounded by rooms, and at times in the excavation it was simply referred to as the Ziggurat Courtyard. The path through the court led to the ziggurat terrace and eventually to the temple atop it. The court was likely a gathering place for special occasions of worship to the moon god (whose name Woolley read Nannar, but which we read today as Nanna). Therefore, Woolley eventually dubbed this space the Great Nannar Courtyard. Area PD is the large space to the east of the ziggurat terrace, substantially lower in elevation than the base of the ziggurat. It had many floors over many periods. It consisted of a large paved courtyard (some 50 x 75 meters) surrounded by rooms that may have been used for storage. Because of indentations in some of the wall faces, Woolley believed there was once an inset wooden colonnade along some of the walls. (none)
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Media: 13033B | 31-17-328 Export: JSON - XML - CSV

Media Media Title Title Label Author Omeka Label
Woolley's Catalog Cards Woolley's Catalog Cards Card -- BM ID:194 Box:55 Page:139 Card -- BM ID:194 Box:55 Page:139 (none)
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