6691
| Description (Catalog Card): | Stela. Blue grey. Fragment. Above: 3 male fig[ure]s in relief, body full face, head arms and legs in profile, clothed in flounced kaukanes sheep skin coats. Right hands over breast, heads turned to the left but faces are lost. Traces of finely cut hair on back of head of middle figure. Dress typically Sumerian. Below waist consists of 2 tiers of wide flounces, 6 pleats covering front of body. Above waist garment rendered by fine and numerous parallel wavy lines. Below the male figs is a second tier of female figures of which only 2 remain. Primitive inscription above heads. Female figs are in the same attitude as male; head in profile, body full face. Figs badly mutilated and lost below breast. Heads look to left, hands of first female crossed over breast, fingers pointing up to shoulders. Both shoulders covered by garment represented by fine wavy lines as on upper portion of male figs. Hair tucked up in a bunch round right ear and flowing down side. Traces of unsmoothed edges & holes indicate that outline of figs was made by a drill. cf. Stela of the Vultures Pre-Sargonid. Broken inscription: ...ka, he has filled abundantly, the Eanaka, he has replenished. H.C. Linear writing of Ur Nina of Lagash. (Found out of position). E. [A note appears on the back of the catalog card, writing largely illegible]1 |
| Find Context (Catalog Card): | Found out of position in upper soil of Temenos wall chamber of KP |
| Material (Catalog Card): | Limestone2 |
| [1] Woolley's description |
| [2] Material as described by Woolley |
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| Location | Context Title | Context Description | Description (Modern) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Giparu | KP | The excavation area given the abbreviation KP was eventually found to be the site of the ancient building known as the giparu (alternatively e-gig-par or gig-par-ku). Mostly dedicated to the goddess Nin-gal, Nanna's consort, it was also in various periods the residence of the entu priestess. The abbreviation KP, however, stands for King's Palace because Woolley initially thought this might be the site of Shulgi's palace, the ehursag. The giparu was a very long-lived building, though it underwent many changes over many centuries. Most striking were the changes in the Neo-Babylonian period when Woolley shows it combining with the dublalmah to the east. He believed that by this point the building was not sufficient to house the Ningal temple and the entu priestess together, and thus the so-called Palace of Belshaltinannar was constructed outside the temenos specifically to house the priestess herself. At times Woolley refers to the giparu as the Great Ningal Temple, which can be confusing as the Kassite and Neo-Bablyonian Ningal temples had moved onto the ziggurat terrace to the north of the giparu (Area HD). Furthermore, parts of the giparu were excavated under area abbreviations other than KP in season 3 when the full extents of the building were only just coming to light. The northern portion originally carried the abbreviation HDB and the southeastern portion, SF. | (none) |
- 1 Location
| 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 IV; The Early Periods | Ur Excavations IV; The Early Periods | 1955 | Woolley, L. | (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 VII; The Old Babylonian Period | Ur Excavations VII; The Old Babylonian Period | 1976 | Woolley, L. and M. Mallowan | (none) |
| Woolley's Catalog Cards | Woolley's Catalog Cards | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:33 Page:124 | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:33 Page:124 | (none) |
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Context
Ur >> Giparu | KP
References
British Museum Photo Negatives, .
Woolley, L. . (1955) Ur Excavations IV; The Early Periods, Oxford: Oxford University Press.