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)
923 (none) (none) (none) Clay bowl. Reddish drab clay. Wheelmade, broken. Type LXXVII, but the contour is straiter, the foot is not so distinct. =P.28
851 (none) (none) (none) Clay bowl. Drab clay, wheelmade. Type XLIII. = new P.21a
952 (none) (none) (none) Clay Bowl. Drab clay, wheelmade, broken. Type LXXXI =P.47
922 (none) (none) (none) Clay Bowl. Drab clay, wheelmade, broken. Type LXXVII. =P.28
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
697 (none) 1923,1110.142 (none) Bronze situla. [drawing]
801 (none) 1923,1110.172 (none) Bronze fibula. Pin missing. Regular Persian period type. [drawing 1:1]
664 (none) (none) (none) Bronze + iron. Rings + anklets a quantity of, mostly broken + all in very bad condition.
849 (none) (none) (none) Bowl. Blue glaze over drab clay. Type LXXXII =44 [P.44 or photo. Designation unclear.]
18295 (none) (none) (none) Bone toilet instrument (?) With ring at top, now broken. Smoothed and pointed.
17899 (none) (none) (none) Bone object. For applique to some piece of furniture (?) [drawing 1:1]
674 (none) (none) (none) Bone inlay. A quantity of pieces, square rosettes, etc, clearly from a box of which the wood has wholly perished.
848 (none) (none) (none) Blue glaze bottle. Glaze partly faded. Two small loop handles. Type LXXXV = P.211
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.
695 (none) (none) B15259 Beads. Small string of little glass and paste beads, globular, with two or three larger ditto, and 6 miniature Puzuzu heads in green-glazed frit and (1) in lapis paste, the heads 5mm high.
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.
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.
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.
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.
663A (none) (none) B15260 Beads. Carnelian, with a few bugles +other shaped of paste, crystal, + lapis strung up in 2 strings. A Carnelian. B Mixed.
663B (none) (none) (none) Beads. Carnelian, with a few bugles + other shaped of paste, crystal, + lapis strung up in 2 strings. A Carnelian. B Mixed.
800 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Carnelian 12; amethyst 11; crystal 1; restrung approximately in the original order. Bracelet.
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.
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.
18266B (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.

Media: XNCF Export: JSON - XML - CSV

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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