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)
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.
17644 (none) (none) (none) Clay cone. Inscribed. Lower part only: small both with no 'head' to the nail but flattened and like Ur-Engur type: but this later.
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.
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.
17654C (none) (none) (none) (none)
17819B (none) (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Same type as U.17819A. Complete except for feet.
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.
17830 (none) (none) (none) Door socket. Diorite. With inscription of Ur-Engur.
17831 (none) (none) (none) Door socket. Diorite. With inscription of Ur-Engur.
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
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.
17854B (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.
17946 32-40-50 (none) (none) Incense burner. Clay. [drawing]
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]
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]
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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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