7060 | 1927,0527.233
| Iconography: | Human/zoomorphic >> Male 2 |
| Technique: | Manufacture >> Molded >> Mold Pressed 2 |
| Description (Catalog Card): | Terracotta figurine. Bearded male in profile holding axe in left hand. Close fitting cap on head. Feet lost. E. [drawing 1:1]3 |
| Find Context (Catalog Card): | From burnt brick house. DP. |
| Material (Catalog Card): | Terracotta4 |
| Measurement (Catalog Card): | ht. head to calves 067 elbow to elbow 020 |
| U Number: | 70601 |
| Object Type: | Figural Objects >> Plaques/Reliefs |
| Museum: | British Museum |
| Season Number: | 04: 1925-1926 |
| Description (Modern): | Fired clay plaque depicting striding male figure in relief; figure wears cap or turban; facial features carefully shown; bearded; wears a short skirt; holds a socketed tool or weapon, possibly an axe in his left hand; missing from the knees.2 |
| Material: | Inorganic Remains >> Clay >> Fired >> Terracotta |
| Museum Number (BM Big Number): | 127448 |
| Museum Number (BM Registration Number): | 1927,0527.233 |
| Measurement (Height): | 1322 |
| Measurement (Width): | 1092 |
| Measurement (Depth): | 752 |
| [1] U.7033-U.7064 were duplicated with the duplicates assigned to tablets from Season 5. They were originally part of U.7839, a large group of tablets found in Area SM (Jacobsen AJA 57:128). They were later given individual numbers that were believed to fall between Seasons 4 and 5, but ended up duplicating numbers assigned to objects from Season 4. The duplicates have been given the subletter A (or additional subletter where multiple objects were indicated on the original card) in this database while the original object from the catalog card retains the number without subletter (or the original subletters assigned on the card). |
| [2] Data collected by British Museum research team. |
| [3] Woolley's description |
| [4] Material as described by Woolley |
| Location | Context Title | Context Description | Description (Modern) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DP | The excavation area abbreviation DP probably stands for Dungi's Palace; Woolley believed the building with bricks marked e-hur-sag (thought to refer to Shulgi's palace) was too small to be what should be a grandiose building. Thus, he explored the area southeast of the giparu extensively looking for it. Most of his abbreviations for excavations in this area refer to the potential palace. When he found cylinders inscribed with the name of Shulgi beneath a partly ruined floor (excavation area abbreviation DT in the northwestern portion of area EH), he thought he might have found it or at least indications of it. This building turned out to be a temple dedicated to Dimtabba (now read Nimintabba) and its very partial remains extended beyond the line of the Neo-Babylonian temenos wall to the west. Woolley continued to dig into this western area under a new excavation abbreviation, DP. This area did not reveal a palace or additional ruins of the Nimintabba temple, but instead it showed denuded domestic space related to Hall's Area A excavations. Area DP became the northern portion of area EM, but only partial houses are shown here along what Woolley termed Quality Lane. The houses here were never published in great detail, but many of the DP graves appear on the area EM map as falling along Quality Lane. | (none) |
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| Media | Media Title | Title | Label | Author | Omeka Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | British Museum Photo Negatives | British Museum Photo Negatives | (none) | (none) | (none) |
| Clay Figurines of Babylonia and Assyria | Clay Figurines of Babylonia and Assyria | 1930 | Elizabeth Douglas Van Buren | (none) |
| Field Photographs | Field Photographs | (none) | (none) | (none) |
| UPM Field Photo numbers | UPM Field Photo numbers | (none) | (none) | (none) |
| Woolley's Catalog Cards | Woolley's Catalog Cards | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:34 Page:202 | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:34 Page:202 | (none) | |
| Woolley's Catalog Cards | Woolley's Catalog Cards | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:34 Page:202_V | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:34 Page:202_V | (none) |
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British Museum Photo Negatives, .
Elizabeth Douglas Van Buren. (1930) Clay Figurines of Babylonia and Assyria, Yale University Press.