Context Title: XNCF1     
Context Name (Publication): XNCF Site     
Context Name (Excavation): XNCF     
Context Description: This area lies along the edge of northwest temenos wall east of the Nebuchadnezzar Corner Fort (NCF). It was partly explored in season 1 when late graves were found in what at that time were called Cemeteries X, Y, and Z. In seasons 10 and 11 the larger area of late domestic space, or mostly that to the northwest, was more systematically excavated as area NNCF and the 'cemeteries' were found to be graves beneath heavily deteriorated late houses. Publication of area XNCF in UE8 discusses the remains of domestic buildings found east of NCF and Warad Sin's Bastion along the temenos wall and the northern extent of the Nanna Courtyard (PD). XNCF as a whole, however, appears to have included the long range of Kassite magazines extending under and somewhat beyond the Neo-Babylonian temenos wall. These were broken into rows A, B, and C, and field catalogue cards referring to XNCF often record one of these letters and a room number in the contextual notes. Thus XNCF contained public buildings between the ziggurat terrace and the temenos wall (including a clear reference to the Kuriglazu addition to the Warad Sin Bastion), and domestic buildings and burials somewhat beyond (north of) the northwest temenos wall.     
[1] Outside Nebuchadnezzar's Corner Fort

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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)
17898 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Mixed lot, off many shapes and materials, found in or just below the floor of an early Neo-Babylonian level and presumably of that date, though some may well be old beads re-used. Shapes include ball, ring, cylinder, rhomboid, diamond, date shaped, elliptical, polygonal, double conoid, poppyseed, chisel, pear pendant, one miniature celt. Materials include carnelian, marble, steatite, sard, calcite, quartz, amethyst, agate, mother of pearl, shell, glazed frit, limestone (?), granite, hematite, crystal.
17899 (none) (none) (none) Bone object. For applique to some piece of furniture (?) [drawing 1:1]
17932 (none) 1932,1008.72 (none) Weight. Hematite. Inscribed; broken. Type II. [drawing 1:1]
18093 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Bearded man standing full face: the hands held one above the other just below the bead. Body nude. Beard and hair very Egyptian in style. Body below waist missing.
18101 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Seated goddess with altar and tree.
18105 (none) (none) (none) Scarab seal of glazed frit, the glaze perished. Highly conventionalized: below, a goat? [drawing]
18106 (none) (none) (none) Clay tablet. Baked. Fragment only.
18107 (none) 1932,1008.1 (none) Clay cone. Upper part of stem and about 1/3 of base missing: larsa type.
18158 (none) (none) (none) Rhodian jar of drab clay with stamp on side. The jar was used as a frain-pip and the bottom has been broken away. [drawing]
18159A (none) (none) (none) [A-D] Clay tablets. 4: one complete but with reverse erased: 3 fragmentary.
18176 (none) (none) (none) Inscribed clay cone. Large cone of Larsa type, the head intact, the stem broken and a good deal of the text missing.
18177 (none) (none) (none) Inscribed clay cone. The stem broken off and nearly all its text missing. The head complete except for chips, the text in poor condition.
18208 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Scene of worship. One seated and one standing figure and 3 columns of inscription much defaced.
18209 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Presentation (?) scene with 4 standing figures.
18216 (none) 1933,1013.72 (none) Cylinder seal. Shell. Badly worn: designed of naked hunter with lion and rampant animals.
18224 (none) (none) (none) Stone vase fragment. Black and white marble with fragment of inscription. Probably belongs to U.1455. H.C.
18227 (none) (none) (none) Clay cone. Base of Larsa type, with text intact (? Warad-Sin ?)
18238 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Nude male figure, full face, bearded; the hands over the breast holding a bird and a litnus: he wears a belt and apparently a codpiece and round-tipped cap. Broken away across the calves of the legs.
18240 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Carnelian. Bearded and winged god, wearing short chiton, between rampant lion and human-headed and winged bull = fine work.
18241 (none) (none) (none) Beads. 2 dark agate date-shaped, 1 ditto scaraboid, 1 carnelian flattened and facetted date-shaped, 2 carnelian balls, 3 dark agate small balls, 2 short gold tubular with plaited pattern.
18242 (none) (none) (none) Copper object. Broken in two pieces and decayed away in the center. A tube with flattened sides; the ends plain, the middle decorated with bands and lines of dots in releig. It is in 2 pieces which lay in line as if it had been broken in half, but it may have been originally in two lenths, unequal. There were fragments of small wooden rods in it. Along the edge are nail holes for fixing it to wood. Drawn.
18243 (none) (none) (none) Gold earring. Plain crescent, hollow, with one end thinned out with a wire. As U.18270. [drawing 1:1]
18252.1 (none) 1933,1013.155 (none) [.1-.2] Beads. A mixed lot of carnelian balls, cylinder and facetted date shaped: steatite cylinders, crystal rings, yellow glaze strip, green glaze tubular, yellow glaze hub type, green glaze scaraboid, poopy seed pendant (carnelian) glass paste balls etc.
18265 (none) 1933,1030.160 (none) [A] Beads. A string of black glass paste balls, roughly made and a string of small beads, also of glass paste, green and yellow rings, ovoid and date shaped and ball, with pear-shaped pendant: and 1 carnelian and 1 mottled grey and black marble date shaped beads. [B] With them a very small copper hair ring [B] [drawing].
18266A (none) (none) (none) Beads. (A) 3 triple-bored square spacers of glazed frit, a quantity of minute rings and tubes of blue paste, tubes of white paste and pink limestone; then probably all going together. Also: (B) A mixed string of shell tubes, cylinders and date shaped: glazed frit lozenges, glass paste date-shaped: glaze nasturtium seed, discoids, glass balls, paste double conoids, glass cylinders and paste rings and 1 carnelian cylinder. Found in disorder.

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Media Media Title Title Label Author Omeka Label
Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Ur_Notes_v2_p021 Ur_Notes_v2_p021 (none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Ur_Notes_v2_p158 Ur_Notes_v2_p158 (none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Ur_Notes_v2_p159 Ur_Notes_v2_p159 (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)
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)
Field Photographs Field Photographs GN0074 GN0074 (none)
Field Photographs Field Photographs GN0075 GN0075 (none)
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