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)
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 ?)
18228 33-35-192, 33-35-192 (none) (none) Clay cone. Fragment of the stem only. Large Larsa type about 2/3 of text preserved (? 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.
18267 33-35-144 (none) (none) Beads. White, pink and blue glazed beads shaped as triple rings, and rings and balls and tubes, one square, one notched rectangle, 2 long date shaped; shell rings, 1 large black and white glass date shaped: 2 flattened shell limbs.
18268A (none) (none) (none) (A) Copper bracelets [A and D]. A pair: penannular: solid metal with flattened papyrus ends. (B) Beads. 3 paste puzuzu heads, 4 blue and white eye disks, 2 paste scarabs, 2 paste hub beads, paste rings and tubes, large glass ball. (C) A bone scraper, thin and flat.
18269A (none) (none) (none) Group: (A) [A and N] Pair of copper bracelets, penannular, square section with flattened papyrus ends. (B) Bangle of thin copper wire. (C) Copper fibula. [drawing] (D) Copper fibula thus [reference to drawing] pin missing. [drawing] (E) [E-O] 2 copper finger rings. (F) Bronze arrowhead, 3-flanged type. (G) Iron knife blade, straight and slender type. Broken. (H) Iron leaf-shaped blade, broken. (I) [I and P] [I] Bone spindle and [P] glazed whorl. (J) Shale amulet in form of bird. [drawing 1:1] (K) Beads: string of very small yellow glaze ring with 6 puzuzu heads of blue glazed frit and some black and white glass paste balls and one yellow pasted bead. (L) Beads: string of pink and white stone scaraboids, large shell disk, blue glaze puzuzu head, paste scaraboid, decorated, glass rings. (M) Beads: Stone beads, carnelian, sard, marble, limestone, rough.
18270 (none) (none) (none) Gold earring. Hollow, lunate shape. [drawing 1:1]
18271 (none) 1933,1013.158 (none) Beads. Carnelian. Date shaped, some of them roughly facetted. With them, fragments of a lunate gold earring, very thin metal, broken.
18272A (none) 1933,1013.171 (none) Group: (A) Copper fibula thus [reference to drawing]. Complete. [drawing 1:1] (B) Beads. A string of carnelians, strip, double conoids and date shaped. (C) Beads mixed string = glazed scaraboid engraved shell roundel, paste (blue) date shaped and cylinders, glaze balls, variegated, marble date shaped etc. [drawing] (D) Beads: quantity of very small rings, red, white blue glaze, and some carnelians.
18273 33-35-8 (none) (none) Incense burner. Clay. With incised checker pattern on sides. ht. 0085 sq. 008
18275 (none) (none) (none) Clay sealing from a basket or panel: string marks underneath. The clay has been roughly squeezed together on the strings and then incised on two sides. [drawing 1:1]
18277 (none) (none) (none) Glazed pot. Clay body covered with smooth dark-horn glaze. [drawing 1:1]
18295 (none) (none) (none) Bone toilet instrument (?) With ring at top, now broken. Smoothed and pointed.
18296A (none) (none) (none) Tablets. One complete [A] and fragments of at least two others = unbaked. Also 2 fragments of a broken tablet. [all fragments are B]
18298 (none) (none) (none) Fragment of gaming board. Bitumen. Punched holes in the surface, some surrounded by circles of short radial lines (there are a good deal obliterated by rubbing) Roughly done. [drawing 1:1]
18300 (none) (none) (none) Gate socket. Diorite. Of Gimil-Sin text partly obliterated.

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