Context Title: Cemetery X     
Context Name (Excavation): X; Cemetery X     
Context Name (Publication): XNCF     
Context Description: Season 1 catalog cards contain the context location Cemetery X referring to late period (Persian and Neo-Babylonian) graves discovered along (or just northwest of) the northwest temenos wall. Originally believed to be a late period cemetery (along with cemeteries Y and Z nearby), it was eventually found that the graves lying near the surface here were originally located beneath the floors of domestic space that had almost completely denuded. Contextual information from later seasons indicate this area of houses and graves with the abbreviation XNCF, meaning northeast of the Nebuchadnezzar Corner Fort. Some of the material in this later explored area is as early as the Kassite period.     

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Objects: Cemetery X Export: JSON - XML - CSV

Object U Number Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) Museum Number (BM Registration Number) Museum Number (UPM B-number) Description (Catalog Card)
698A (none) (none) (none) [A-D] Bronze finger rings. (4) (A fifth was broken and therefore chucked) of flattened bronze.
699 (none) (none) B15233 Pot. Covered with greenish white glaze (broken and mended, bits missing) Type 653 =P.93 [drawing 1:1]
759 (none) (none) (none) Clay. Pot. Drab clay. Wheelmade. Type LVIII =RC.165 =P.199.
761 (none) (none) (none) Clay jar. Brownish - drab clay. Wheelmade, broken. Type L, but with a rim instead of an unbroken contour. Type 761 =P.78 [drawing]
762 (none) (none) (none) Clay jar. Drab clay, wheelmade. Type LXIII. =P.73
764 (none) (none) (none) Clay pot. Drab clay. Wheelmade. Type LXVI =P.209
765 (none) (none) (none) Clay pot. Drab clay. Wheelmade. Type LXXV =new (P) 128
766 (none) 1923,1110.78 (none) Clay pot. Drab clay. Wheelmade. Type LXVIII. Not P.
767 (none) (none) B15391 Clay pot. Drab clay. Wheelmade. Type LXVIII, but has a flat bottom. Not P.
768 (none) (none) B15388 Clay pot. Drab clay. Wheelmade. Type LXIX, as far as the upper part goes, but it narrows down to the base more rapidly. =P.181
769 (none) (none) (none) Clay pot. Drab clay. Wheelmade. Type LXIX =P.88
793 (none) (none) B15387 Clay pot of creamy white ware, finely finished. Flat base. Type LXXXIII =P.135 [drawing]
794 (none) 1923,1110.74 (none) Clay pot of creamy white clay finely finished. Flat base. Same type as U.793. Type LXXXIII =P.135
795 (none) 1923,1110.88 (none) Glaze pot of drab clay covered with blue-green glaze partly flaked off and partly blanched. Type LXXXVIII =P.182a. [drawing]
796 (none) (none) B15395 Glaze jar of creamy white clay covered with glaze originally dark greenish blue, now mostly blanched white. Type XCIII =P.108a [drawing]
797 (none) (none) B15237 Glazed pilgrim-bottle. The sides marked with concentric circles; glaze originally bright blue, now largely blanched white.Type 762 =P.221
798 (none) (none) B15236 Glaze bottle. Drab clay covered with glaze originally blue, now wholly blanched. Type XCIV =P.198 [drawing]
799 (none) (none) (none) Beads. of (crossed out word) carnelian and amethyst, with lunar pendant of agate. Restrung approximately in original order. Carnelian, 58; amethyst, 17; 1 pebble; 1 lapis paste; 1 agate pendant.
800 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Carnelian 12; amethyst 11; crystal 1; restrung approximately in the original order. Bracelet.
801 (none) 1923,1110.172 (none) Bronze fibula. Pin missing. Regular Persian period type. [drawing 1:1]
802 (none) 1923,1110.81 (none) Clay bowl (broken) of egg-shell ware in fine light red clay. Hemispherical, round bottomed. Type XCV. =new type 3.a
803 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Cylinder-shaped and bugle, the cylinder with incised criss-cross patterns: all originally of blue glaze now decayed and blanched, on frit.
804 (none) (none) (none) Strip of leaf gold. Pierced with 2 holes at each end, by the corners, and 2 holes close together by either edge, at the middle. Probably for sewing on to a leather belt.
809 (none) 1923,1110.107 (none) Terracotta relief. Moulded Woman suckling a child. In whitish drab clay. Poor work, proportions bad: surface weathered. [drawing 1:1]
839 (none) (none) (none) Iron dagger. Broken into 5 pieces, then extreme tip missing, with it an iron object, thus [drawing 1:1] probably end of a scabbard or hilt.

Media: Cemetery X Export: JSON - XML - CSV

Media Media Title Title Label Author Omeka Label
Ur Excavations IX; The Neo-Babylonian and Persian Periods Ur Excavations IX; The Neo-Babylonian and Persian Periods 1962 Woolley, L. and Mallowan, Max (none)
Ur Excavations VIII; The Kassite Period and the period of the Assyrian Kings Ur Excavations VIII; The Kassite Period and the period of the Assyrian Kings 1965 Woolley, Leonard (none)
Field Photographs Field Photographs GN0074 GN0074 (none)
Field Photographs Field Photographs GN0075 GN0075 (none)
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