7829
| Description (Catalog Card): | Clay cone. Warad-Sin = U.19 etc. (SAK 212 C). B.1 |
| Find Context (Catalog Card): | N. corner of Great Courtyard. |
| Material (Catalog Card): | Clay2 |
| Text Genre: | Royal/Monumental |
| Dates Referenced: | Warad-Sin |
| U Number: | 7829 |
| Object Type: | Architectural Elements >> Cones |
| Season Number: | 05: 1926-1927 |
| Museum: | The National Museum of Iraq |
| Object Type: | Writing and Record Keeping >> Peg, Nail or Cone (inscribed) |
| Culture/Period: | Ur III |
| Description (Modern): | Cone |
| Description (Modern): | Object is not sealed. |
| Material: | Inorganic Remains >> Clay >> Fired |
| Museum Number (IM Number): | IM 3581 |
| Tablet ID Number: | P225322 |
| [1] Woolley's description |
| [2] Material as described by Woolley |
Files
| Location | Context Title | Context Description | Description (Modern) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Great Nanna Courtyard | PD | The meaning of this two-letter designation is unclear. It may derive from Woolley's search for Shulgi's palace and may thus stand for Palace of Dungi. Woolley came to realize, however, that it was an enormous courtyard surrounded by rooms, and at times in the excavation it was simply referred to as the Ziggurat Courtyard. The path through the court led to the ziggurat terrace and eventually to the temple atop it. The court was likely a gathering place for special occasions of worship to the moon god (whose name Woolley read Nannar, but which we read today as Nanna). Therefore, Woolley eventually dubbed this space the Great Nannar Courtyard. Area PD is the large space to the east of the ziggurat terrace, substantially lower in elevation than the base of the ziggurat. It had many floors over many periods. It consisted of a large paved courtyard (some 50 x 75 meters) surrounded by rooms that may have been used for storage. Because of indentations in some of the wall faces, Woolley believed there was once an inset wooden colonnade along some of the walls. | (none) | |
| Ur | When Woolley lists context only as 'Ur' on his object catalog cards he tends to mean that it was found somewhere within the confines of the city wall but no more specific than that. These are often surface finds that Woolley felt did not require more specific find spot information. Those found outside the city walls were typically recorded as 'brought in' followed by the name of the broad region from which they were brought in by the workers. | (none) |
- 2 Locations
| Media | Media Title | Title | Label | Author | Omeka Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Woolley's Catalog Cards | Woolley's Catalog Cards | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:36 Page:66 | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:36 Page:66 | (none) |
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