NNCF

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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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U Number	Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)	Museum Number (BM Registration Number)	Museum Number (UPM B-number)	Description (Catalog Card)
18113C	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads [A]. Agate elliptical and date shaped, marble elliptical, carnelian date-shaped, carnelian tubular and ball shaped and long double conoid, shaped agate, facetted eliptical in carnelian, blue glaze disk. [drawing] [B-C] Also, scraps of gold foil. [D-E] Also 2 bone spindle whorl.
18113B	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads [A]. Agate elliptical and date shaped, marble elliptical, carnelian date-shaped, carnelian tubular and ball shaped and long double conoid, shaped agate, facetted eliptical in carnelian, blue glaze disk. [drawing] [B-C] Also, scraps of gold foil. [D-E] Also 2 bone spindle whorl.
18113A	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads [A]. Agate elliptical and date shaped, marble elliptical, carnelian date-shaped, carnelian tubular and ball shaped and long double conoid, shaped agate, facetted eliptical in carnelian, blue glaze disk. [drawing] [B-C] Also, scraps of gold foil. [D-E] Also 2 bone spindle whorl.
18112	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Carnelian rings and balls. Agat ovoid: blue paste date-shaped blue paste axe-head bead, agate discoid (flat). Also, 1 gold lunate earring.
18111B	32-40-332	(none)	(none)	[A] Beads. Carnelian rings: amethyst double conoids, agate date-shaped and flat oval; blue paste date shaped; agate cylindrical; oval domical agate, large shell cylinder with roughly engraved winged gryphon? And minute carnelian balls, also [B] cylinder seal, glazed frit; a scorpion and a winged gryphon. Also fragments of a [C] copper fibula, bow type.
18110	(none)	1932,1008.82	(none)	Stone weight. Greenish steatite. Inscribed at one end [drawing of cuneiform characters]. Type XIX. [drawing 1:1]
18109D	(none)	(none)	(none)	Bone inlay. 4 flat pieces of bone incised with rows of concentric circles [A-D] (D. 10mm)= each has 2 holes for attachment. (A) With 2 rows of circles. (B) With 1 row of holes. (C and D) Like B, but both broken. Persian period.
18109C	(none)	(none)	(none)	Bone inlay. 4 flat pieces of bone incised with rows of concentric circles [A-D] (D. 10mm)= each has 2 holes for attachment. (A) With 2 rows of circles. (B) With 1 row of holes. (C and D) Like B, but both broken. Persian period.
18109B	(none)	(none)	(none)	Bone inlay. 4 flat pieces of bone incised with rows of concentric circles [A-D] (D. 10mm)= each has 2 holes for attachment. (A) With 2 rows of circles. (B) With 1 row of holes. (C and D) Like B, but both broken. Persian period.
18109A	(none)	(none)	(none)	Bone inlay. 4 flat pieces of bone incised with rows of concentric circles [A-D] (D. 10mm)= each has 2 holes for attachment. (A) With 2 rows of circles. (B) With 1 row of holes. (C and D) Like B, but both broken. Persian period.
17986	32-40-48	(none)	(none)	Incense burner. Clay. [drawing]
17974	(none)	1932,1008.284	(none)	Fragment of incense table. Clay. [drawing 1:1]
17971	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Carnelian, date-shaped, double conoid, ring, ball-shaped.
17970	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Hematite. 3 standing figures and 1 kneeling; star; crescent; serpent.
17968	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Carnelian, chisel pendants, pop-eyed pendant, date shaped, cylindrical, ring, ball-shaped. Agate, rhomboid, date-shaped. Gold, 1 ball-shaped.
17967	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Carnelian, ring, ball, biconvex square, date-shaped, double conoid, cylindrical. Agate, elliptical, biconvex square.
17966B	32-40-248	(none)	(none)	[A-B] Beads. Bone, date-shaped and elliptical. 2 spacers. Carnelian, balls, rings, elliptical, double conoid.
17966	32-40-247	(none)	(none)	Beads [A-B]. Bone, date-shaped and elliptical. 2 spacers. Carnelian, balls, rings, elliptical, double conoid.
17963	(none)	(none)	(none)	Fragment of incense burner. Clay. [drawing 1:1]
17962	(none)	1932,1008.281	(none)	Fragment of incense burner. Clay. [drawing 1:1]
17961	32-40-49	(none)	(none)	Fragment of incense burner. Clay. [drawing 1:1]
17960	(none)	(none)	(none)	Fragment of incense burner. Clay. [drawing 1:1]
17959	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Hematite. 2 gazelle; 2 men holding staff between them.
17958	(none)	1932,1008.169	(none)	Cylinder seal. Glazed frit. Kneeling man shooting many antlered gazelle.
17957	(none)	(none)	(none)	Incense burner. Clay. [drawing 1:1]

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Media Title	Title	Label	Author	Omeka Label
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)
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)