7825
| Description (Catalog Card): | Inscribed duck weight Diorite. A crescent. of Dungi; weight 5 mana. B Type VI. HC.37.1 |
| Find Context (Catalog Card): | SW face of Ziggurat Chamber at S. corner |
| Material (Catalog Card): | Diorite2 |
| U Number: | 7825 |
| Object Type: | Weights and Measures >> Balance Pan Weights >> Duck Weights |
| Season Number: | 05: 1926-1927 |
| Museum: | The National Museum of Iraq |
| Culture/Period: | Ur III |
| Description (Modern): | Object is not sealed. |
| Material: | Inorganic Remains >> Stones and Minerals >> Stone >> Igneous >> Diorite |
| Museum Number (IM Number): | IM 3580 |
| Tablet ID Number: | P226235 |
| [1] Woolley's description |
| [2] Material as described by Woolley |
| Location | Context Title | Context Description | Description (Modern) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ziggurat | The ziggurat was a focus of Woolley's work in many seasons. It was covered in millennia of dirt and it took the initial seasons just to clear this away. In the process, many artifacts were discovered but Woolley did not assign a separate excavation area abbreviation other than Zig. and this does not always refer solely to the Ziggurat but also to its immediate surroundings. When Woolley listed Ziggurat or Zig as the context for an artifact, he usually included that it was at the foot, along the south wall, or some other region of the ziggurat itself. In 1931, however, he began using the code Zig.31 to indicate the deep cuts across and in front of the northern terrace that were essentially under the excavation area PDW. Many of the artifacts with the excavation area abbreviation Zig.31 come from the Ubaid period. The terrace was packed with soil gathered from earlier deposits at Ur, and thus the fill itself contained very early remains. J.G. Taylor first investigated the ziggurat in 1854,R. Campbell Thomson in 1918 and HR Hall in 1919. Hall uncovered the southern portion and dug into the ziggurat itself to retrieve foundation cylinders of Nabonidus. Woolley worked extensively on the ziggurat, stating that there were only three seasons where it was not worked on in some form. In some of these seasons, however, it was really the ziggurat terrace and its buildings that were the main focus. | (none) |
- 1 Location
| Media | Media Title | Title | Label | Author | Omeka Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Woolley's Catalog Cards | Woolley's Catalog Cards | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:36 Page:62 | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:36 Page:62 | (none) | |
 | Ur Excavations VI; The Ur III Period | Ur Excavations VI; The Ur III Period | 1974 | Woolley, Leonard | (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) |
| UPM Field Photo numbers | UPM Field Photo numbers | (none) | (none) | (none) |
| British Museum Photo Negatives | British Museum Photo Negatives | (none) | (none) | (none) |
| Field Photographs | Field Photographs | (none) | (none) | (none) |
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Context
Ur >> Ziggurat Terrace | ZT >> Ziggurat
References
Woolley, Leonard. (1974) Ur Excavations VI; The Ur III Period, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
British Museum Photo Negatives, .