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)
	293	(none)	(none)	(none)	Gate socket. Limestone. Inscription of Kurigalza, badly damaged. Copied.
	294	(none)	(none)	(none)	Gate socket. Inscription of Ur-Engur. Illegible
	295	(none)	1923,1110.3	(none)	Gate socket, Basalt. Inscription on smooth surface, with shoulder below. Records the building of A.A22AG.GA.NI GIG.KISAL[Above] by Bur-Sin I. Copied and transliterated.
	420	(none)	(none)	B15324, B15324	Basalt hinge-socket of GIMIL ILISHU.
	421	(none)	(none)	(none)	Basalt hinge-socket of GIMIL ILISHU.
	422	(none)	(none)	B15323	Basalt hinge-socket of UR-ENGUR.
	423	(none)	(none)	(none)	Basalt hinge-socket of UR-ENGUR.
	424	(none)	(none)	(none)	Basalt hinge-socket of UR-ENGUR. The stone had been cut down and re-used between the Nebuchadnezzar and the Persian periods: its connection with the door was not certain.
	806	(none)	1923,1110.2	(none)	Basalt hinge-stone. Inscribed with name, etc., of NABONIDUS. The fragments of the iron shoe of the door-post are still fixed in the stone.
	838	(none)	1923,1110.1	(none)	Basalt hinge-stone. In bad condition. Inscribed with the name of GIMILSIN.
	874	(none)	1923,1110.39	(none)	Fragment of Diorite vessel. Ends of 4 lines of a longer inscription. Unintelligible.
	900	(none)	(none)	(none)	Basalt door-socket. In very bad condition. With inscription of KURIGALZU. Reads "To Nannar, his king, Kurigalzu, who is the servant of the sun-god..." (1) Nannar (2) logal-a-ni-ir. (3)(a) Ku-ri-gal-zu. (4) lu arad Babbar-ra??
	901	(none)	(none)	(none)	Basalt impost-stone. Inscription with name, etc., of BURSIN.
	950	(none)	(none)	B15322, B15322	Basalt hinge-stone. Inscribed with name, etc., of KURIGALZU.
	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
	1191	(none)	1924,0920.22	(none)	Large black diorite gate-socket, dedicated in the cult-temple of GIMIL-SIN, king of Ur (3rd Dynasty), by a certain Lugal-magu-rri, patesi of Ur. The inscription of 16 lines is engraved on the upper surface partly surrounding the socket hole.
	1208	(none)	(none)	(none)	Massive brick diorite gate-socket, with 8 lines, inscription of Kurigalzu.
	1357	(none)	(none)	(none)	Gate socket of Ur-Nammu, with inscription duplicate of the bricks from the Ziggurat. SAKI p.186a.
	1367	(none)	(none)	B15322, B15322	Sandstone gate socket of Kurigalzu, with inscription similar to that of U.1208, 9 lines.
	1663	(none)	(none)	(none)	Gate socket, (sandstone?) with traces of an almost completely obliterated inscription probably of Kurigalzu.
	1727	(none)	(none)	(none)	Black stone, of irregular shape, broken, probably part of a gate socket. On a smoothed surface is a 8 line inscription of Bur-Sin, king of Ur, recording his building of a ge-par for the goddess Nin-gal.
	2673	(none)	(none)	(none)	Door-socket of dGimil-dSin, beloved of Enlil, the king whom Enlil has chosen as the delight of his heart, the mighty king, king of Ur, king of the 4 regions of the world, his god, Lugal-ma-gur-gur-ri, the commandment of the fortress, patesi of Ur, his servant has built his beloved temple. (Another example in Berlin VA.3302)
	2674	(none)	1927,1003.60	(none)	Door-socket of Sin-balatsu-iqbi (time of Ashurbanapal) shakkanak (vice regent) of Ur son of Ningal-iddinna. Restoration of Elemen-ni-gur. In particular of the gate-way to Esag-dili (the Ziggurat). The gate was built in the middle of the terrace of the temenos, on the procession way (! e hal-la-ta du-a). The door was of boxwood, fixed with bronze pegs in massive walls, had a gold USH, a silverlock, silver plated bronze binding (?). See notes. H.C.
	2675	(none)	(none)	(none)	Door-socket of Ur-Engur with the usual inscription: UrdEngur, king of Ur who has built the temple of Nannar?
	2736	(none)	1927,1003.3	(none)	Door-socket of Ur-Engur. Text: To Innina, the great lady, his lady, Ur dEngur, the mighty heero, king of Ur, king of Sumer and Akkad, Es-bur her beloved house he has built. Es = shrine, house. Bur = pot, vase H.C.

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