XNCF
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 |
Files
Object | U Number | Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) | Museum Number (BM Registration Number) | Museum Number (UPM B-number) | Description (Catalog Card) |
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![]() | 698A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-D] Bronze finger rings. (4) (A fifth was broken and therefore chucked) of flattened bronze. |
699 | (none) | (none) | B15233 | Pot. Covered with greenish white glaze (broken and mended, bits missing) Type 653 =P.93 [drawing 1:1] | |
![]() | 759 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay. Pot. Drab clay. Wheelmade. Type LVIII =RC.165 =P.199. |
![]() | 761 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay jar. Brownish - drab clay. Wheelmade, broken. Type L, but with a rim instead of an unbroken contour. Type 761 =P.78 [drawing] |
![]() | 762 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay jar. Drab clay, wheelmade. Type LXIII. =P.73 |
![]() | 764 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay pot. Drab clay. Wheelmade. Type LXVI =P.209 |
![]() | 765 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay pot. Drab clay. Wheelmade. Type LXXV =new (P) 128 |
767 | (none) | (none) | B15391 | Clay pot. Drab clay. Wheelmade. Type LXVIII, but has a flat bottom. Not P. | |
768 | (none) | (none) | B15388 | Clay pot. Drab clay. Wheelmade. Type LXIX, as far as the upper part goes, but it narrows down to the base more rapidly. =P.181 | |
![]() | 769 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay pot. Drab clay. Wheelmade. Type LXIX =P.88 |
![]() | 784 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay pot. Fine drab clay. Wheelmade. Bottom and part of rim broken. Type LXXXVI =P.167 |
793 | (none) | (none) | B15387 | Clay pot of creamy white ware, finely finished. Flat base. Type LXXXIII =P.135 [drawing] | |
![]() | 796 | (none) | (none) | B15395 | Glaze jar of creamy white clay covered with glaze originally dark greenish blue, now mostly blanched white. Type XCIII =P.108a [drawing] |
![]() | 797 | (none) | (none) | B15237 | Glazed pilgrim-bottle. The sides marked with concentric circles; glaze originally bright blue, now largely blanched white.Type 762 =P.221 |
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. |
![]() | 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. |
![]() | 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. |
Media | Media Title | Title | Label | Author | Omeka Label |
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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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Sibling Locations
AH Site | AH - City Wall | CLW - DP - Dublalmah | LL - EH Site | EH - Ehursag | HT - EM Site | EM - Enunmah | TTB | ES - ESB - FH - Giparu | KP - Great Nanna Courtyard | PD - Harbor Temple - House 34/1 - House 34/2 - House Site - Kassite Fort - KPS Site | KPS - LT - LW - Mausoleum Site | BC - Neo-Babylonian Housing | NH - NNCF - NTB - P/103 - Palace of Bel-Shalti-Nannar | AD - Pit F - Royal Cemetery | PG - SM - Temenos Wall | TW - TTC - Ziggurat Terrace | ZT
Child Locations
Cemetery X - Cemetery Y - Cemetery Z - Persian House | PH - Room 1 - Room 10 - Room 2 - Room 5 - Room 8 - Room A3 - XNCFG/1 - XNCFG/1932/8 - XNCFG/4 - XNNCF