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)
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]
17956 (none) (none) (none) Fragment of incense burner. [drawing 1:1]
17974 (none) 1932,1008.284 (none) Fragment of incense table. Clay. [drawing 1:1]
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.
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.
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.
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.
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]
17946 32-40-50 (none) (none) Incense burner. Clay. [drawing]
17986 32-40-48 (none) (none) Incense burner. Clay. [drawing]
18198 (none) (none) (none) Inlay. Bone. Strip of, decorated with compass - drawn incised circles.
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.
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
18195 (none) (none) (none) Needle. Bone (the head slightly chipped).
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)
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.
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.
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]
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.
18119 (none) (none) (none) Stone plaque. Rectangular, of very dark steatite. Plain.
18110 (none) 1932,1008.82 (none) Stone weight. Greenish steatite. Inscribed at one end [drawing of cuneiform characters]. Type XIX. [drawing 1:1]

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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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