16170 | 31-43-177
| Description (Catalog Card): | Mace Head. Limestone. White. Fragment. With design in relief of a serpent with a forked toung. Attribute of Nin-gis-Zida? P.31.43.176 Phil. (no photo available) diam 0046 VI BC1 |
| Find Context (Catalog Card): | BC |
| Material (Catalog Card): | Limestone2 |
| U Number: | 16170 |
| Museum: | University of Pennsylvania Museum |
| Object Type: | Tools and Equipment >> Maces, Sceptres, Staves >> Maces |
| Season Number: | 09: 1930-1931 |
| Description (Modern): | Mace head, incomplete, 25-30% remains. Smooth finish with carvings. Can't tell the shape, but is rounded. Beige color with slightly darker beige spots. 65 measurement is width. Carving of a face, perhaps a mask. Eye visible with black mark. Looks like a second eye may have been there. Face is long oval with nostrils at bottom resembling a horse or snake. Possibly forked tounge coming out of bottom angling to the right. Four horizontal tube-like carvings stacked on top of each other in center of face between eye and nostrils. |
| Material: | Inorganic Remains >> Stones and Minerals >> Stone >> Sedimentary >> Limestone |
| Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number): | 31-43-177 |
| Measurement (Weight): | 123.4 |
| Measurement (X): | 65 |
| Measurement (Y): | 47 |
| Measurement (Z): | 47 |
| [1] Woolley's description |
| [2] Material as described by Woolley |
Files
| Location | Context Title | Context Description | Description (Modern) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mausoleum Site | BC | 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. | (none) |
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| Media | 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) |
| Woolley's Catalog Cards | Woolley's Catalog Cards | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:64 Page:77 | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:64 Page:77 | (none) | |
| Woolley's Catalog Cards | Woolley's Catalog Cards | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:64 Page:077_V | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:64 Page:077_V | (none) |
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