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)
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.
17897 (none) (none) (none) Copper weight (?) Metal rod round in section and tapering slightly at the ends. Type III (?)
1694 (none) 1924,0920.365 (none) Cup. Drab clay (very fine); wheelmade, bell-shaped.
18209 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Presentation (?) scene with 4 standing figures.
18101 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Seated goddess with altar and tree.
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.
18208 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Scene of worship. One seated and one standing figure and 3 columns of inscription much defaced.
18216 (none) 1933,1013.72 (none) Cylinder seal. Shell. Badly worn: designed of naked hunter with lion and rampant animals.
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 (?).
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.
798 (none) (none) B15236 Glaze bottle. Drab clay covered with glaze originally blue, now wholly blanched. Type XCIV =P.198 [drawing]
850 (none) (none) (none) Glaze bottle. Green glaze faded. Type LXXXIX =197
857 (none) (none) (none) Glaze bottle. Rim missing. of grey clay covered with a glze now yellowish white. Type XCII =P.180.
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]
795 (none) 1923,1110.88 (none) Glaze pot of drab clay covered with blue-green glaze partly flaked off and partly blanched. Type LXXXVIII =P.182a. [drawing]
852 (none) (none) (none) Glazed bottle. Green glaze faded, over drab clay. Type LX =new P.184
938 (none) (none) (none) Glazed clay bowl. Faded green glaze over buff clay. Wheelmade. Broken. Type XC =P.37
558 (none) (none) (none) Glazed clay bowl. Faded green glaze over drab clay. Wheelmade, broken. (Below) Type LXXIX.
940 (none) (none) (none) Glazed clay bowl. Faded green glaze over drab clay. Wheelmade, broken. Type LXXX =P.46
855 (none) (none) (none) Glazed jar. Coarsely made of drab clay and covered with a glaze now yellow.
856 (none) (none) (none) Glazed jar. With 2 small loop handles of drab clay covered with a glaze once blue now yellowish white. Type LXVII, but the base is not so distinct. =217 [Probably, typology]
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
854 (none) (none) (none) Glazed pot miniature of drab ware with glaze now greenish white.
18723 (none) (none) (none) Glazed pot. Blue glazed pottery, the color partly bleached, but on the whole well preserved. Type 758 =157P [drawing 2:5]

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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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