18232 | 1933,1013.1
| Description (Catalog Card): | Stone vase. Fragments of stalagmitic calcite with deeply colored veining. Type. On it, part of an inscription.1 |
| Find Context (Catalog Card): | ZT. Part found in the layer of burnt brick rubbish below the Ur-Engur filling by the Boat Shrine: other parts to the SE, circa 030 above archaic floor level, just below sand. |
| Material (Catalog Card): | Calcite2 |
| Text Genre: | Royal/Monumental |
| Dates Referenced: | Ur-Pabilsaga |
| U Number: | 18232 |
| Museum: | British Museum |
| Object Type: | Vessels/Containers >> Closed Forms >> Jars |
| Season Number: | 11: 1932-1933 |
| Culture/Period: | Early Dynastic / Sumerian |
| Description (Modern): | Object is not sealed. |
| Material: | Inorganic Remains >> Stones and Minerals >> Mineral >> Calcite Group >> Calcite |
| Museum Number (BM Big Number): | 124348 |
| Museum Number (BM Registration Number): | 1933,1013.13 |
| Tablet ID Number: | P222846 |
| [1] Woolley's description |
| [2] Material as described by Woolley |
| [3] Data collected by British Museum research team. |
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| Location | Context Title | Context Description | Description (Modern) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ziggurat Terrace | ZT | The excavation area abbreviation ZT stands for Ziggurat Terrace. It was used for any portion of the terrace on which the ziggurat stood, though other more specific abbreviations were also used. For example, the abbreviation PDW refers to the northern side of the terrace, west of the Great Nannar Courtyard (PD), and HD refers to the southern part of the terrace. Early references using the abbreviation ZT refer specifically to excavations along the terrace retaining wall itself. Later references, however, mention specific areas on top the terrace such as the so-called 'boat shrine.' The abbreviation also refers to deep clearing of the terrace fill, particularly on the north side in later excavation seasons, though the abbreviation Zig.31 was most often used for this. Woolley uncovered large areas of the retaining wall that supported the platform known as the ziggurat terrace. He found that it was decorated with large wall cones. These cones bore an inscription of Urnamma but there is evidence that the terrace in some form existed in the Early Dynastic period as well. The Urnamma retaining wall was slanted to support the terrace, was 1.7 meters high, 34 meters wide, and was decorated with 5-meter-wide buttresses about 4 meters apart. The inscribed cones dedicate the terrace to the moon god, Nanna, and show that it was called e-temen-ni-gur, which translates as, "house, foundation platform clad in terror." (Woolley read this e-temen-ni-il). | (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) |
| The "Archaic I" Phase of the Ziqqurat Terrace at Ur: A Contextual Re-Assessment. | The "Archaic I" Phase of the Ziqqurat Terrace at Ur: A Contextual Re-Assessment. | 2003 | Benati, Giacomo | (none) |
| Ur Excavations IV; The Early Periods | Ur Excavations IV; The Early Periods | 1955 | Woolley, L. | (none) |
| Ur Excavations Texts VIII.1: Royal Inscriptions Part II | Ur Excavations Texts VIII.1: Royal Inscriptions Part II | 1965 | Sollberger, E. | (none) |
| Woolley's Catalog Cards | Woolley's Catalog Cards | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:72 Page:25 | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:72 Page:25 | (none) |
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