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)
18124G 32-40-352 (none) (none) [A-DK] Seal impressions. A large collection, giving impressions (baked) of Greek, Persian and Babylonian gems. Green coins, etc. (See separate notes)
18124F 32-40-351 (none) (none) [A-DK] Seal impressions. 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)
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)
18124B 32-40-347 (none) (none) [A-DK] Seal impressions. A large collection, giving impressions (baked) of Greek, Persian and Babylonian gems. Green coins, etc. (See separate notes)
18124A 32-40-346 (none) (none) [A-DK] Seal impressions. A large collection, giving impressions (baked) of Greek, Persian and Babylonian gems. Green coins, etc. (See separate notes)
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.
18155 32-40-327 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Pale amethyst. Warrior in chariot shooting with bow and arrow: a fallen enemy beneath the horse's hooves. Poor cutting.
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.
18153 32-40-259 (none) (none) Beads. Carnelian, agate, quartz, lapis and frit date shaped, lapis tubular, carnelian balls, and a circular handled stamp seal of frit with plain criss cross pattern below.
18166A 32-40-253 (none) (none) Beads. Very small carnelians, date shaped, ring and double conoid, and one or two lapis they made a finger ring. Also 2 silver earrings thus, but broken [reference to drawing that has been excised from catalog card].
18131A.3 32-40-252 (none) (none) [A.1-.3] Beads. A small collection. Hematite tubular and date shaped, carnelian balls and date shaped, jasper date shaped, glazed frit tubular, hematite rings, lapis date shaped. Also, a [B] black steatite duck-weight pierced for suspension and a [C] small shell lion also pierced.
18131A.2 32-40-251 (none) (none) [A.1-.3] Beads. A small collection. Hematite tubular and date shaped, carnelian balls and date shaped, jasper date shaped, glazed frit tubular, hematite rings, lapis date shaped. Also, a [B] black steatite duck-weight pierced for suspension and a [C] small shell lion also pierced.
18131A.1 32-40-250 (none) (none) [A.1-.3] Beads. A small collection. Hematite tubular and date shaped, carnelian balls and date shaped, jasper date shaped, glazed frit tubular, hematite rings, lapis date shaped. Also, a [B] black steatite duck-weight pierced for suspension and a [C] small shell lion also pierced.
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.
18138 32-40-19 (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Female figure standing in long plain dress with broad girdle, both hands holding an object to her breast. Complete.
18188 32-40-16 (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Fragment: head only. Bearded man. Very crude work.
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.
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.
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.

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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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