NNCF

Context Title: NNCF1     
Context Name (Excavation): North of Nebuchadnezzar's Corner Fort     
Context Description: This area lies beyond (north/northwest of) Nebuchadnezzar's corner fort (NCF) at the west corner of the temenos wall. In seasons 10 and 11 the area was somewhat systematically excavated, initially creating a shallow trench from the northwest terrace and temenos wall almost to the city wall some 100 meters away. According to the 1932 reports, it was "enlarged into a regular excavation covering the area of a number of houses," and this expansion was continued in season 11. Excavations were taken through Persian (mostly surface) level down only a small depth to relatively well preserved house remains of the late Kassite and Neo-Babylonian periods. Many of the houses had graves under their floors. Woolley did not map or record the houses or graves, saying in his Antiquaries Journal report for 1932 (p.390): "They produced no objects of importance, but the graves did yield a certain number of glazed vases, beads and seals." Publication does not do justice to the extent of this excavation area. Only XNCF, a smaller excavation of domestic space along the NW temenos is published in UE8 and that in only a few paragraphs.     
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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)
18124D 32-40-349 (none) (none) Seal impressions [A-DK]. A large collection, giving impressions (baked) of Greek, Persian and Babylonian gems. Green coins, etc. (See separate notes)
18124E 32-40-350 (none) (none) Seal impressions [A-DK]. A large collection, giving impressions (baked) of Greek, Persian and Babylonian gems. Green coins, etc. (See separate notes)
18195 (none) (none) (none) Needle. Bone (the head slightly chipped).
17853 32-40-435, 32-40-435 (none) (none) Limestone fragment. Flaked off from a curved drum with inscription (nearly completed). --To Amurru; His God; (for) life; Warad-Sin; King of Larsa
18175 (none) (none) (none) Inscribed cone. Fragment of. From a large cone of the Larsa type: only part of one side of the stem found.
18198 (none) (none) (none) Inlay. Bone. Strip of, decorated with compass - drawn incised circles.
17986 32-40-48 (none) (none) Incense burner. Clay. [drawing]
17946 32-40-50 (none) (none) Incense burner. Clay. [drawing]
17947 (none) (none) (none) Incense burner. Clay. [drawing 1:1]
17955 (none) 1932,1008.282 (none) Incense burner. Clay. [drawing 1:1]
17957 (none) (none) (none) Incense burner. Clay. [drawing 1:1]
18128 32-40-3 (none) (none) Green glazed jug. (Good condition and color). Type DCXLVIII = (If this is 648 it =RC.36). But this is not a jug. Remove from catalog.
18130 (none) (none) (none) Glazed pot. Pottery with surface glaze. Neck blue, body now all bleached, originally white with yellow bands. Type CCCLXXXVI =171b P.
18129 (none) (none) (none) Glazed figure of a bearded (?) man in long plain drapery, the hands clasped below the breast. Head missing. Made of reddish clay covered with a fairly thick greenish-blue glaze now mostly bleached white.
1207 (none) (none) (none) Fragment of New Babylonian baked clay tablet, obverse only preserved. Parts of 12 lines of an astronomical omen-text, in 4 sections.
17974 (none) 1932,1008.284 (none) Fragment of incense table. Clay. [drawing 1:1]
17956 (none) (none) (none) Fragment of incense burner. [drawing 1:1]
17960 (none) (none) (none) Fragment of incense burner. Clay. [drawing 1:1]
17961 32-40-49 (none) (none) Fragment of incense burner. Clay. [drawing 1:1]
17962 (none) 1932,1008.281 (none) Fragment of incense burner. Clay. [drawing 1:1]
17963 (none) (none) (none) Fragment of incense burner. Clay. [drawing 1:1]
18132 32-40-40 (none) (none) Figurine. Of unbaked clay. Nude female and upper part only preserved and the arms missing. Pointed white: the hair black.
17830 (none) (none) (none) Door socket. Diorite. With inscription of Ur-Engur.
17831 (none) (none) (none) Door socket. Diorite. With inscription of Ur-Engur.
18168 (none) (none) (none) Door socket. Diorite with inscription of Bur-Sin.

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Media Media Title Title Label Author Omeka Label
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)
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)
Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Ur_Notes_v2_p046 Ur_Notes_v2_p046 (none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Ur_Notes_v2_p029 Ur_Notes_v2_p029 (none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Ur_Notes_v2_p028 Ur_Notes_v2_p028 (none)
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House 4 - NNCFG/1 - Northeast - Room C6 - Southwest

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References

Woolley, L. and Mallowan, Max. (1962) Ur Excavations IX; The Neo-Babylonian and Persian Periods, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Woolley, Leonard. (1965 ) Ur Excavations VIII; The Kassite Period and the period of the Assyrian Kings, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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