Door/Gate Sockets

Mesopotamian doors had large wooden posts that extended past the threshhold.  This post rested in the depression of a gate/door socket.  The door then pivoted on this post, and the sokept kept it in place.  The socket was set into the floor, so the top of the socket was aligned with the floor.  Most sockets were inscribed with a dedicatory inscription from the ruler/govenor to a god/goddess recording achievements and building projects.  

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Object	U Number	Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)	Museum Number (BM Registration Number)	Museum Number (UPM B-number)	Description (Catalog Card)
	1165	(none)	(none)	B15885	Black stone gate socket, with long but incomplete inscr. running round the side. Beginning and end lost, partly by the breaking off of one side of the stone, partly by flaking away the surface. 42 ll remain, recording the building of an archive-house (dub-la-mah), annexed to the court of justice, by Bur-Sin I, king of Ur. The text ends with blessings and curses upon those who should respect or destroy the king's monument. Photo 147 RI.71
	6354	(none)	(none)	B16564	Diorite Door Socket of Ur-Nammu to Nin-e-gal. To Ninegal his lady, Ur-Nammu, the mighty man, king of Ur, king of Sumer and Akkad, has built her house. 1 to B. 1 to E. H.C.
	6354A	(none)	(none)	B16564	(none)
	6334	(none)	(none)	B16565	Door-socket of Bur-Sin. To Nin-gal. Construction of Gig-par-azag. Same inscription U.295, U.3031 [The following is a note on the back of the catalog card] For catalog of Vol VII.
	6738	(none)	(none)	B16566, B16566	Door-socket. To dGimil iluSin King of Ur? etc? his god, (Ni?)-kal-la shakkanak his servant has built his house (shrine, temple?). H.C.
	6353C	(none)	(none)	B16567	[A-G] Door Socket of Ur-nammu. Diorite. To Ningal his lady Ur-Nammu, the mighty man, king of Ur, King of Sumer and Akkad her Gig-par-azag-ga, has built. 4 to E [UPM and BM] 3 to B [Baghdad]
	6357A	(none)	(none)	B16568	[A-M] Diorite door-socket of Bur-Sin. To Nin-gal, his lady. Bur-Sin, the mighty, king of Ur, king of the 4 regions of the world her Gig-par-azag has built, for his life he has presented. Cf. U.3031, 6334. And a fragment of a second door-socket. 7 to B. [Baghdad] 6 to E. [Expedition]
	7818A	(none)	(none)	B17244	[A-D] Gate sockets (four). Inscription of Marduk-nadin-ahi. c. 1116-1101. HC.40
	7818C	(none)	(none)	B17244	[A-D] Gate sockets (four). Inscription of Marduk-nadin-ahi. c. 1116-1101. HC.40

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