2674 | 1927,1003.60
| Description (Catalog Card): | Door-socket of Sin-balatsu-iqbi (time of Ashurbanapal) shakkanak (vice regent) of Ur son of Ningal-iddinna. Restoration of Elemen-ni-gur. In particular of the gate-way to Esag-dili (the Ziggurat). The gate was built in the middle of the terrace of the temenos, on the procession way (! e hal-la-ta du-a). The door was of boxwood, fixed with bronze pegs in massive walls, had a gold USH, a silverlock, silver plated bronze binding (?). See notes. H.C. 1 |
| Find Context (Catalog Card): | L.L. |
| Material (Catalog Card): | Serpentine2 |
| Text Genre: | Royal/Monumental |
| Dates Referenced: | Shamash-shum-ukin Sin-balassu-iqbi |
| U Number: | 2674 |
| Museum: | British Museum |
| Object Type: | Architectural Elements >> Door/Gate Sockets >> Socket |
| Season Number: | 03: 1924-1925 |
| Object Type: | Architectural Elements >> Door/Gate Sockets |
| Culture/Period: | Neo-Assyrian |
| Description (Modern): | Door socket, coiled snake, inscribed |
| Description (Modern): | Object is not sealed. |
| Material: | Inorganic Remains >> Stones and Minerals >> Mineral >> Serpentine |
| Material: | Inorganic Remains >> Stones and Minerals |
| Museum Number (BM Big Number): | 119065 |
| Museum Number (BM Registration Number): | 1927,1003.60 |
| Museum Number (BM Big Number): | 119065 |
| Tablet ID Number: | P468651 |
| [1] Woolley's description |
| [2] Material as described by Woolley |
Files
| Location | Context Title | Context Description | Description (Modern) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dublalmah | LL | First investigated by Taylor in 1853, the dublalmah was originally a gateway onto the eastern corner of the ziggurat terrace. It expanded into a larger building in the Isin-Larsa/Old Babylonian period. It had multiple functions, religious and administrative, through the centuries. An inscribed door socket of Amar-Sin found here refers to the building as the great storehouse of tablets and the place of judgment. It was thus essentially a law court, possibly with tablets recording judgments stored within. In Mesopotamia, an eastern gateway--in sight of the rising sun--was typically seen as a place of justice, and gateways were often places where witnesses or judges might hear claims. After the Ur III period the door onto the ziggurat terrace was sealed up and the dublalmah appears to have become a shrine, but it retained its name and probably its law court function. Kurigalzu made significant restorations to the building in the Kassite period and Woolley marveled at the well-constructed fully preserved arched doorway of this Late Bronze Age time. By the Neo-Babylonian period, the structure had essentially merged with the functions of the neighboring giparu. | (none) |
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| Media | Media Title | Title | Label | Author | Omeka Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | British Museum Photo Negatives | British Museum Photo Negatives | (none) | (none) | (none) |
| Field Photographs | Field Photographs | (none) | (none) | (none) |
| Ur Excavations Texts I: Royal Inscriptions | Ur Excavations Texts I: Royal Inscriptions | 1928 | Gadd, C.J., Legrain, L., Smith, S., Burrows, E.R. | (none) |
| Ur Excavations VIII; The Kassite Period and the period of the Assyrian Kings | Ur Excavations VIII; The Kassite Period and the period of the Assyrian Kings | 1965 | Woolley, Leonard | (none) |
| Woolley's Catalog Cards | Woolley's Catalog Cards | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:28 Page:174 | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:28 Page:174 | (none) |
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References
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