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)
1174 (none) 1924,0920.150 (none) Clay model stool. red clay Having on all four sides roughly incised saltire in rectangle. [drawing 1:1] Height M. 0.028 length of sides M. 0.032
1694 (none) 1924,0920.365 (none) Cup. Drab clay (very fine); wheelmade, bell-shaped.
17892A (none) (none) (none) Mace-head. White limestone. Plain: surface slightly worn. [drawing 1:1]
17893A (none) (none) (none) Mace-head. [A-B] Two of white limestone. Poorly shaped and rather damaged: B has its surface much decayed. [drawing 1:2]
17895 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. White shell. Hunter attacked by 3 rampant bulls (?) a second hunter with a bow helps from behind - behind, a palm tree (?).
17896 (none) (none) (none) Copper nail with gilt head and scraps of gold foil.
17897 (none) (none) (none) Copper weight (?) Metal rod round in section and tapering slightly at the ends. Type III (?)
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.

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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)
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_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)
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