3328
| Description (Catalog Card): | Stone stela fragment. Shows portion of figure holding up libation cup before altar, behind which a nude figure, supported by priest in attitude of devotion. Ur-Nammu stela in Cat.1 |
| Find Context (Catalog Card): | Filling of lower courtyard. LL. Ur. |
| Material (Catalog Card): | Stone2 |
| Text Genre: | Royal/Monumental |
| Dates Referenced: | Ur-Nammu |
| U Number: | 3328 |
| Museum: | University of Pennsylvania Museum |
| Object Type: | Figural Objects >> Plaques/Reliefs >> Stelas |
| Season Number: | 03: 1924-1925 |
| Culture/Period: | Ur III |
| Popular Name: | Ur-Nammu Stela |
| Description (Modern): | Stele |
| Description (Modern): | Object is not sealed. |
| Material: | Inorganic Remains >> Stones and Minerals >> Stone >> Sedimentary >> Limestone |
| Museum Number (UPM B-number): | B16676 |
| Tablet ID Number: | X002778 |
| [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) |
- 1 Location
| 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) |
| 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) |
| Woolley's Catalog Cards | Woolley's Catalog Cards | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:30 Page:248 | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:30 Page:248 | (none) |
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Ur >> Dublalmah | LL
References
Woolley, Leonard. (1974) Ur Excavations VI; The Ur III Period, Oxford: Oxford University Press.