Neo-Babylonian Housing | NH

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Context Title:	Neo-Babylonian Housing \| NH
Context Name (Publication):	Neo-Babylonian Houses
Context Name (Excavation):	NH
Context Description:	The excavation area abbreviation NH refers to the better-preserved Neo-Babyloninan Housing immediately southwest of area AH (though at one point Legrain mistakenly listed it as North Harbour). Woolley excavated in area NH for a short time in season 9 and again for an even shorter time ("a few days at the end of the season" according to field reports) in season 12. He did not dig below the level of Neo-Babylonian housing as his goal was to expose the layout of a portion of the Neo-Babylonian town. Across much of the site, the Neo-Babylonian domestic remains were badly preserved and even here there were only the stubs of walls and some evidence of later, Persian, occupation. The houses used no baked brick and they were close to the surface, thus they had often disappeared almost completely. Nonetheless, Woolley recovered outlines of two streets and seven houses along with a number of late artifacts, including two pots filled with tablets dating from the reign of Nabopolassar up to that of Alexander the Great. Neo-Babylonian houses were much more spacious in ground plan than Old Babylonian and were typically built with a saw-toothed outer plan that Woolley had difficulty explaining. The streets were much more linear than earlier layouts and this implies developments in centralized town planning. Woolley attributed this entire domestic quarter, which he believed had been built on ground cleared of all other remains, to the time of Nebuchadnezzar. Despite the fact that there were many artifacts recovered here and there were many graves excavated, there are only four field notecards extant and only cursory publication. When reporting graves, Woolley listed only house number, not room. Even the house numbers were assigned late, as evidenced by publication in UE9, which discusses House A and B while its map numbers 1-7. Houses 6 and 7 were certainly dug in 1931 when Woolley intended to extend area AH, but he changed his mind and only later went back to uncover the outlines of a few more houses south of these in the final season, including House 1, dug in 1934.

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Objects: Neo-Babylonian Housing | NH Export: JSON - XML - CSV

U Number	Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)	Museum Number (BM Registration Number)	Museum Number (UPM B-number)	Description (Catalog Card)
17239A	52-30-50	(none)	(none)	[A-J] 10 Tablets [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
17239B	52-30-48	(none)	(none)	[A-J] 10 Tablets [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
17239C	52-30-54	(none)	(none)	[A-J] 10 Tablets [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
17239D	52-30-46	(none)	(none)	[A-J] 10 Tablets [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
17239E	52-30-47	(none)	(none)	[A-J] 10 Tablets [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
17239F	52-30-49	(none)	(none)	[A-J] 10 Tablets [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
17239G	52-30-51	(none)	(none)	[A-J] 10 Tablets [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
17239H	52-30-36	(none)	(none)	[A-J] 10 Tablets [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
17239I	52-30-53	(none)	(none)	[A-J] 10 Tablets [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
17239J	52-30-55	(none)	(none)	[A-J] 10 Tablets [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
17419A	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-C] 3 finger rings. A, B copper. C. silver. A. has a circular bezel. B. has an oval bezel. C. has a single whitish stone in a silver setting.
17405A	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-B] Bracelets. Copper. A pair. Plain spring.
17405B	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-B] Bracelets. Copper. A pair. Plain spring.
17437A	31-43-208	(none)	(none)	[A-B] Bangles. Copper. A pair. Penannular. Thick metal. Ends thus: [reference to drawing] Philadelphia (see over) [Back of card reads: Sent to Phil. 1 silver bracelet, 1 copper bracelet, tied together but not a pair.] [drawing]
17437B	31-43-209	(none)	(none)	[A-B] Bangles. Copper. A pair. Penannular. Thick metal. Ends thus: [reference to drawing] Philadelphia (see over) [Back of card reads: Sent to Phil. 1 silver bracelet, 1 copper bracelet, tied together but not a pair.] [drawing]
17435A	31-43-514	(none)	(none)	[A-B] Bangles. Copper. A pair. Ends. Penannular. One sent to Philadelphia. [drawing]
17435B	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-B] Bangles. Copper. A pair. Ends. Penannular. One sent to Philadelphia. [drawing]
17404A	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-B] Bangles. Copper. A pair. Ends thus: [reference to drawing]. Not in tab anal. [drawing]
17404B	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-B] Bangles. Copper. A pair. Ends thus: [reference to drawing]. Not in tab anal. [drawing]
17434A	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-B] Bangles. Copper. A pair. Ends - [reference to drawing]. [drawing]
17434B	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-B] Bangles. Copper. A pair. Ends - [reference to drawing]. [drawing]
17347A	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-B] Bangles. Copper. A pair. Circular in section C shaped.
17347B	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-B] Bangles. Copper. A pair. Circular in section C shaped.
17250A	52-30-16	(none)	(none)	[A-B] 2 Tablets. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
17250B	52-30-12	(none)	(none)	[A-B] 2 Tablets. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]

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Media: Neo-Babylonian Housing | NH Export: JSON - XML - CSV

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)