7593 | 1928,1009.148
| Description (Catalog Card): | Glass rod. Fragment. Black. Composed of long fine strands. Pinched at one end thus showing that it had been used at Ur in the fabrication of glass ware.1 |
| Find Context (Catalog Card): | loose soil EM |
| Material (Catalog Card): | Glass2 |
| Measurement (Catalog Card): | Thickness 0003 |
| U Number: | 7593 |
| Museum: | British Museum |
| Object Type: | Tools and Equipment >> Maces, Sceptres, Staves >> Rods and Bars |
| Season Number: | 05: 1926-1927 |
| Description (Modern): | Portion of glass cane, round in section; opaque black (brown); cane is solid, one end slightly broadened by the imprint of a tool which cut halfway through the cane; the remaining half was broken forcefully; the opposite end is broken off; very thin vertical grooves along the surface; probably drawn out of the crucible with a solid rod; small portion is translucent and reveals that the colour of the glass is brown; surface slightly dulled. |
| Material: | Inorganic Remains >> Glass and Related Material |
| Museum Number (BM Big Number): | 128415 |
| Museum Number (BM Registration Number): | 1928,1009.148 |
| Measurement (Height): | 0.453 cm |
| Measurement (Diameter): | 1.93 cm |
| [1] Woolley's description |
| [2] Material as described by Woolley |
| [3] Measured at British Museum, 2015. |
Files
| Location | Context Title | Context Description | Description (Modern) |
|---|---|---|---|
| EM Site | EM | The excavation area abbreviation EM stands for Extra-Mural because this area lies outside of the southwest Temenos Wall. H.R. Hall investigated a portion of the high ground at this site (his Area A) in 1919, finding the remains of domestic structures. Taylor had also cut a trench here in 1853. Woolley first tested the ground early in 1926 (season 4) and then dug more completely in season 5, concentrating on about 60x40 meters of space and excavating to a depth of approximately 5 meters from the surface. He dug through Kassite and other late remains that were particularly fragmentary. He reported two Kassite houses (which he dubbed High House and Hill House) that were complete enough to map, and eventually uncovered twelve houses of the Isin-Larsa/Old Babylonian period. There were many graves beneath the floors and tablets were also relatively common. Most of the tablets have to do with the business of the temple, so the houses here probably belonged to temple workers. Woolley named the streets he found in areas EM and AH. He felt that by naming the streets he could more easily identify any particular house, giving them numbers along the street with odd numbers on one side and even on the other. Many of the street names recur in the English city of Bath, where Woolley owned a house. The northern portion of area EM ('Quality Lane' on Woolley's map) was excavated as area DP in season 4. This was higher ground than much of the rest of EM and is mapped with only partial houses that are not published in any detail. The houses of EM are more completely published, but their various phases of construction and rebuilding are not detailed. The domestic space represented by these houses likely continued eastward into area EH in the Isin-Larsa/Old Babylonian and Kassite periods, then was cut through and partly destroyed by the foundations of the Neo-Babylonian temenos wall. | (none) |
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| Media | Media Title | Title | Label | Author | Omeka Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Catalogue of Western Asiatic glass in the British Museum | Catalogue of Western Asiatic glass in the British Museum | 1985 | Barag, Dan | (none) |
| Woolley's Catalog Cards | Woolley's Catalog Cards | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:35 Page:97 | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:35 Page:97 | (none) | |
| Ur Excavations VII; The Old Babylonian Period | Ur Excavations VII; The Old Babylonian Period | 1976 | Woolley, L. and M. Mallowan | (none) |
| 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) |
- 4 Media