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)
17831 (none) (none) (none) Door socket. Diorite. With inscription of Ur-Engur.
17854A (none) (none) (none) [A] Terracotta head of a cow . Crudely hand modelled broken off at shoulders. B) With this, a fragment of the hind-quarters and tail possibly of the same animal. Kassite.
17855 (none) 1932,1008.254 (none) Terracotta head of a ram? Crudely hand modelled. Broken off at the shoulders. Kassite.
17947 (none) (none) (none) Incense burner. Clay. [drawing 1:1]
17953 (none) (none) (none) Arrowhead. Copper. Triple winged. [drawing 1:1]
17954 (none) (none) (none) Arrowhead. Iron. Round tanged. [drawing 1:1]
17955 (none) 1932,1008.282 (none) Incense burner. Clay. [drawing 1:1]
17956 (none) (none) (none) Fragment of incense burner. [drawing 1:1]
17957 (none) (none) (none) Incense burner. Clay. [drawing 1:1]
17958 (none) 1932,1008.169 (none) Cylinder seal. Glazed frit. Kneeling man shooting many antlered gazelle.
17959 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Hematite. 2 gazelle; 2 men holding staff between them.
17960 (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]
17963 (none) (none) (none) Fragment of incense burner. Clay. [drawing 1:1]
17967 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Carnelian, ring, ball, biconvex square, date-shaped, double conoid, cylindrical. Agate, elliptical, biconvex square.
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.
17970 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Hematite. 3 standing figures and 1 kneeling; star; crescent; serpent.
17971 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Carnelian, date-shaped, double conoid, ring, ball-shaped.
17974 (none) 1932,1008.284 (none) Fragment of incense table. Clay. [drawing 1:1]
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.
18110 (none) 1932,1008.82 (none) Stone weight. Greenish steatite. Inscribed at one end [drawing of cuneiform characters]. Type XIX. [drawing 1:1]
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.
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.
18114 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. A standing god and goddess: a small nude female figure, 2 dogs (?) and another animal and 3 columns and inscription.
18115 (none) (none) (none) Beads. 1 malachite cylinder, 2 white calcite rhomboids, 1 cylinder seal, grey steatite, much defaced, with seated goddess and 2 standing figures and traces of 2 columns of inscription: cylinders of shell, steatite, pine limestone, some originally with figures but all defaced, eliptical beads of white calcite, agate, biconvex rectangles, square section tubular red limestone, black stone discoid, carnelian date-shaped, glass ball, and one limestone disk with crudely incised design thus [reference to drawing]. [drawing]

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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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