3600
| Description (Catalog Card): | No catalog card exists for this object: U.3400-U.4929 [possibly an error for U.3400-U.3989 since little evidence for tablets with numbers after U.3989 exists] fell unassigned between seasons 3 and 4. They were later used for tablets found in Season 3 in areas PD, TTB, and ES (Jacobsen AJA 57:128). |
| U Number: | 36001 |
| Season Number: | 03: 1924-1925 |
| Museum: | The National Museum of Iraq |
| Object Type: | Writing and Record Keeping >> Tablet |
| Culture/Period: | Ur III |
| Material: | Inorganic Remains >> Clay >> Unfired |
| Tablet ID Number: | P137774 |
| Notes: | nos. 3400-5540 are practically all from Dublal-mah, the building oS.E. of the courtyard and most from rooms 8 and 9 |
| [1] U.3400-U.4929 [possibly an error for U.3400-U.3989 since little evidence for tablets with numbers after U.3989 exists] fell unassigned between seasons 3 and 4. They were later used for tablets found in Season 3 in areas PD, TTB, and ES (Jacobsen AJA 57:128). |
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| Location | Context Title | Context Description | Description (Modern) |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Unknown | Woolley did not list a location. | (none) |
| 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) |
- 2 Locations
| Media | Media Title | Title | Label | Author | Omeka Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ur Excavation Volumes Provisional | Ur Excavation Volumes Provisional | (none) | (none) | (none) |
| Ur Excavations Texts III: Business Documents of the Third Dynasty | Ur Excavations Texts III: Business Documents of the Third Dynasty | 1937 | Legrain, L. | (none) |
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