6927
| Conservation: | 2007. University Museum Near East Section Ur Metals Conservation Treatment Project. IMLS Grant. |
| Conservation: | Possibly electrolytic reduction treatment |
| Description (Catalog Card): | Adze head. Bronze? Upper and lower portion of handle ribbed. No traces of wood found in handle hole. In text: Kassite period (7) and fig. E. [drawing 1:2]1 |
| Description (Archival): | CBS Register: copper adze. imbedded in wall of Kurigalzu Temple of Ningal. 166 x 39 x 60 mm |
| Find Context (Catalog Card): | Found lying in the middle of a burnt brick Kurigalzu wall, flush with face. Room 2. SW side of Ziggurat. |
| Material (Catalog Card): | Copper Alloy2 |
| Measurement (Catalog Card): | L. of blade 016, W. of handle 0058 D. of hole in handle 0028 [L.160mm, Cannot determine width or lenght of socket based on position of drawing based on 1:1 drawing] |
| U Number: | 6927 |
| Object Type: | Tools and Equipment >> Axes, Choppers, Scrapers >> Adzes |
| Museum: | University of Pennsylvania Museum |
| Season Number: | 04: 1925-1926 |
| Object Type: | Tools and Equipment >> Axes, Choppers, Scrapers >> Axes |
| Description (Modern): | Adze head, Copper or Bronze, Blade is rounded at end. Socket has three added lines around top and bottom. On the back of the socket there are 5 ridges, middle was probably most prominent, but are all broken now. |
| Material: | Inorganic Remains >> Metal >> Copper Alloy |
| Museum Number (UPM B-number): | B16432 |
| Measurement (Diameter): | 253 |
| Measurement (X): | 158 |
| Measurement (Y): | 583 |
| Measurement (Y): | 284 |
| Measurement (Z): | 124 |
| Measurement (Z): | 73 |
| [1] Woolley's description |
| [2] Material as described by Woolley |
| [3] Socket |
| [4] Blade |
| 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) |
- 1 Location
| Media | Media Title | Title | Label | Author | Omeka Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 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:34 Page:70 | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:34 Page:70 | (none) |
- 2 Media