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)
17654B 32-40-429, 32-40-429 (none) (none) [A-B] Wall cones. Two of Warad-Sin = complete. Cf. Ur inscription 131. (A) is intact = (B) is broken, and a large flake has come away from the stem, so that about 1/3 of the inscription is missing: this happened before the cone was set in the wall.
17966B 32-40-248 (none) (none) [A-B] Beads. Bone, date-shaped and elliptical. 2 spacers. Carnelian, balls, rings, elliptical, double conoid.
17654A (none) (none) (none) Wall cones. Two [A-B] of Warad-Sin = complete. Cf. Ur inscription 131. (A) is intact (B) is broken, and a large flake has come away from the stem, so that about 1/3 of the inscription is missing: this happened before the cone was set in the wall.
18125 (none) (none) B18485 Vase of glass paste. Greenish grey surface (black in section) with combed design roughly applied in opaque white glass; this is merely squeezed to the surface (by the cake-icing technique) and not incorporated in the body of the vase: it is the last degeneration of the real Phoenician glass but may be itself Phoenician. Part of rim missing.
18187 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Bearded god and goddess seated side by side and embracing. Both wear long flounced and pleated dresses. Poor confition, but complete.
17855 (none) 1932,1008.254 (none) Terracotta head of a ram? Crudely hand modelled. Broken off at the shoulders. Kassite.
18148 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Woman nursing an infant. Fragment: from the waist upwards.
18150 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Seated woman with child. Small-size version of common type. Compelte from ankles up.
17819B (none) (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Same type as U.17819A. Complete except for feet.
18188 32-40-16 (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Fragment: head only. Bearded man. Very crude work.
18189 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Fragment, from waist upwards. Woman, draped, standing, suckling an infant.
18149 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Female figure, nude but with wide belt, nursing an infant. Heavy type of face. Fragment, from hips upwards only.
18138 32-40-19 (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Female figure standing in long plain dress with broad girdle, both hands holding an object to her breast. Complete.
18136 (none) 1932,1008.235 (none) Terracotta figurine of nude female standing and holding her hands on above the other before her breast. Complete.
18137 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta figurine of nude female standing and holding an infant to her breast. Complete.
18134 (none) 1932,1008.249 (none) Terracotta figurine of a bearded man. Wearing the Persian cap and holding his hands one above the other before his breast. Upper part only, body from waist downwards missing.
18135 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta figurine of a bearded man, standing: right arm by side, left hand holding object to breast. Body from hips downwards missing. Persian.
18164 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta animal head. Crudely hand modelled. It has been applied to a vase: there is no hole for pouring, but it must have been the front of a zoomorphic vessel. In the back the wheel-turning marks are visible, and the soft clay has been pushed out to make the head. [drawing]
18327 (none) (none) (none) Tablet.
18110 (none) 1932,1008.82 (none) Stone weight. Greenish steatite. Inscribed at one end [drawing of cuneiform characters]. Type XIX. [drawing 1:1]
18119 (none) (none) (none) Stone plaque. Rectangular, of very dark steatite. Plain.
18117 32-40-140 (none) (none) Stone object. Grey steatite (?). Rather fiddle shaped, flat, the face decorated with incised rosettes and concentric circles, the sides with guilloches, the back unfinished -- two concentric circles and an attempt to connect them with a guilloche faintly scratched. On the top originally rose minute figures delicately carved in the round of a man and two bulls: of them only the feet and hooves are left.
18116 (none) (none) (none) Stone mug. Mottled. Brown steatite with handle, and 2 holes below the rim as if to attach a lid. Intact. Heavy and not well-shaped. [drawing]
18118 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. Very dark steatite. Decorated on the outside with a procession of 5 bulls standing with the bodies in profile and the head turned outwards: bodies in fairly high relief, heads in the round. Over the back of each animal an ear of barley. Very fine work. A chip out of the (plain) rim and a larger break which has taken off the head of one of the balls = otherwise in perfect condition, straight-sided bowl.
17829 (none) (none) (none) Stela of black, white and red granite ? Oval-hipped = in section a rectangle with convex sides. On the face, a figure of a seated deity left with attendant standing behind and holding a staff. On the back, inscription in large coarse characters. On each narrow side a standing human figure. Figures and inscription have been done by rubbing not cutting the stone and are very summary and crude: the surface of the stone is damaged and much of the work is very hard to make out and part of the inscription seems to be deliberately effaced. Drawing HC.

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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)
Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Ur_Notes_v2_p028 Ur_Notes_v2_p028 (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_p046 Ur_Notes_v2_p046 (none)
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