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)
798 (none) (none) B15236 Glaze bottle. Drab clay covered with glaze originally blue, now wholly blanched. Type XCIV =P.198 [drawing]
799 (none) (none) (none) Beads. of (crossed out word) carnelian and amethyst, with lunar pendant of agate. Restrung approximately in original order. Carnelian, 58; amethyst, 17; 1 pebble; 1 lapis paste; 1 agate pendant.
800 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Carnelian 12; amethyst 11; crystal 1; restrung approximately in the original order. Bracelet.
801 (none) 1923,1110.172 (none) Bronze fibula. Pin missing. Regular Persian period type. [drawing 1:1]
802 (none) 1923,1110.81 (none) Clay bowl (broken) of egg-shell ware in fine light red clay. Hemispherical, round bottomed. Type XCV. =new type 3.a
803 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Cylinder-shaped and bugle, the cylinder with incised criss-cross patterns: all originally of blue glaze now decayed and blanched, on frit.
804 (none) (none) (none) Strip of leaf gold. Pierced with 2 holes at each end, by the corners, and 2 holes close together by either edge, at the middle. Probably for sewing on to a leather belt.
809 (none) 1923,1110.107 (none) Terracotta relief. Moulded Woman suckling a child. In whitish drab clay. Poor work, proportions bad: surface weathered. [drawing 1:1]
834A (none) (none) (none) Clay tripods. (4) Four standing pots on in the furnace. A-D
834B (none) (none) B15238.1 Clay tripods. (4) For standing pots on in the furnace. A-D
834C (none) (none) B15238.2 Clay tripods. (4) For standing pots on in the furnace. A-D
834D (none) (none) B15238.3 Clay tripods. (4) For standing pots on in the furnace. A-D
836 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta horse's head. Snowman technique. Fragment of one of the normal horseman figurines.
837 (none) (none) (none) Clay figurine. In snowman technique, parrot face, rider on horseback; only man's figure left and of it the arms are gone.
839 (none) (none) (none) Iron dagger. Broken into 5 pieces, then extreme tip missing, with it an iron object, thus [drawing 1:1] probably end of a scabbard or hilt.
840A (none) (none) (none) [A-D] Iron arrowheads (4). A fifth of the same type as A, is corroded to A and part of a 6th is corroded on to B. [drawing 1:1] [A,B, and C are all definitely shown, presumably the 4th drawing belongs to D; however, it is unlabeled.]
841A (none) (none) (none) [A-B] Bronze bracelets pair of. Of round fluted bronze wire, the ends flattened out and superficially engraved. [drawing 1:1]
846 (none) (none) (none) Clay casket of badly-fired flakey black clay with incised & punctured design filled in with white. Broken & in bad condition. [drawing]
848 (none) (none) (none) Blue glaze bottle. Glaze partly faded. Two small loop handles. Type LXXXV = P.211
849 (none) (none) (none) Bowl. Blue glaze over drab clay. Type LXXXII =44 [P.44 or photo. Designation unclear.]
850 (none) (none) (none) Glaze bottle. Green glaze faded. Type LXXXIX =197
851 (none) (none) (none) Clay bowl. Drab clay, wheelmade. Type XLIII. = new P.21a
852 (none) (none) (none) Glazed bottle. Green glaze faded, over drab clay. Type LX =new P.184
853 (none) (none) (none) Pot. Red clay, wheelmade. Type LXXVIII. =new P.165
854 (none) (none) (none) Glazed pot miniature of drab ware with glaze now greenish white.

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Media Media Title Title Label Author Omeka Label
Field Photographs Field Photographs GN0074 GN0074 (none)
Field Photographs Field Photographs GN0075 GN0075 (none)
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 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)
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