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) |
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![]() | 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. |
Media | Media Title | Title | Label | Author | Omeka Label |
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![]() | 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_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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Sibling Locations
AH Site | AH - City Wall | CLW - DP - Dublalmah | LL - EH Site | EH - Ehursag | HT - EM Site | EM - Enunmah | TTB | ES - ESB - FH - Giparu | KP - Great Nanna Courtyard | PD - Harbor Temple - House 34/1 - House 34/2 - House Site - Kassite Fort - KPS Site | KPS - LT - LW - Mausoleum Site | BC - Neo-Babylonian Housing | NH - NTB - P/103 - Palace of Bel-Shalti-Nannar | AD - Pit F - Royal Cemetery | PG - SM - Temenos Wall | TW - TTC - XNCF - Ziggurat Terrace | ZT