18584
| Description (Catalog Card): | Duck weight. Hematite.1 |
| Find Context (Catalog Card): | ZT. In the IIIrd dynasty cistern SE of the Ziggurat, by the wall. |
| Material (Catalog Card): | Haematite3 |
| Measurement (Catalog Card): | L. 0042 Weight 685 grains |
| U Number: | 18584 |
| Museum: | The National Museum of Iraq |
| Object Type: | Weights and Measures >> Balance Pan Weights >> Duck Weights |
| Season Number: | 11: 1932-1933 |
| Description (Modern): | Shape: Duck; Material: Haematite; Color: Black; Condition: complete except for a minute piece missing from below the neck. Dotted with small cracks all over.2 |
| Material: | Inorganic Remains >> Stones and Minerals >> Mineral >> Semi-precious >> Hematite |
| Museum Number (IM Number): | IM 16503 |
| Measurement (Weight): | 42.8502 |
| Measurement (X): | 44.002 |
| Measurement (Y): | 22.302 |
| Measurement (Z): | 24.702 |
| Notes: | Iraq Museum records U Number: U. 185842 |
| [1] Woolley's description |
| [2] Data collected by Thelma Akrawi, Iraq Museum. |
| [3] Material as described by Woolley |
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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 V: The Ziggurat and its Surroundings | Ur Excavations V: The Ziggurat and its Surroundings | 1939 | Woolley Leonard | (none) |
| 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:73 Page:116 | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:73 Page:116 | (none) | |
| Woolley's Catalog Cards | Woolley's Catalog Cards | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:73 Page:116_v | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:73 Page:116_v | (none) |
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References
Woolley, Leonard. (1974) Ur Excavations VI; The Ur III Period, Oxford: Oxford University Press.