Description (Catalog Card): Tablets. A & B Rel. 30/9/82 2 fragmentary round tablets     
Find Context (Catalog Card): SM as 8813     
Material (Catalog Card): Clay1     
U Number: 8814B     
Museum: British Museum      
Object Type: Writing and Record Keeping >> Tablet      
Season Number: 05: 1926-1927      
Description (Modern): Object is not sealed. Iddin-Dagan B     
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Clay >> Unfired      
Museum Number (SL British Museum): SL     
Tablet ID Number: X006099     
[1] Material as described by Woolley

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Location Context Title Context Description Description (Modern)
Unknown Woolley did not list a location. (none)
SM The meaning of this excavation area abbreviation is not clear, but its location is known to be immediately southeast of the giparu (KP) extending to the ehursag (HT) in the east. Badly preserved remains of a building were found here, distinct from the giparu. On a tentative reconstruction of the ground plan, Woolley suggests the original structure measured some 35x40 meters. The building remains date to the Isin-Larsa/Old Babylonian period and many small tablets recording business transactions were found within. T.C. Mitchell, editing the UE 7 volume published after Woolley's death, notes that many of these tablets actually date to the reigns of Shulgi and Amar-Sin. According to Woolley, some of the tablets were twisted together as if in the process of being recycled to reuse their clay for new tablets. He also suggests, very tentatively and based only on a few minor and out-of-place bricks, that this building was originally a temple to Nin-Ezen. (none)
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Media: 8814B Export: JSON - XML - CSV

Media Media Title Title Label Author Omeka Label
Woolley's Catalog Cards Woolley's Catalog Cards Card -- BM ID:194 Box:39 Page:248 Card -- BM ID:194 Box:39 Page:248 (none)
Ur Excavations Texts VI.3: Literary and Religious texts Ur Excavations Texts VI.3: Literary and Religious texts 2006 Schaffer, A., Ludwig, M.C. (none)
Ur Excavations VII; The Old Babylonian Period Ur Excavations VII; The Old Babylonian Period 1976 Woolley, L. and M. Mallowan (none)
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