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)
1138 (none) (none) (none) Vase. Drab clay: wheelmade. Type LVII. Not P
1139 (none) (none) (none) Vase. Drab clay: wheelmade. Neck broken off. Band of 4 incised lines spirally round body, below neck. Type LVII.
1140 (none) (none) (none) Jar. Yellow clay. Type 665 =P.130 [drawing 1:5]
1143 (none) (none) (none) Jar. Light brown clay: wheelmade. Broken at neck. Type 596 =P.159a [drawing 2:5]
1144 (none) (none) (none) Hemispherical Pot. Drab clay. Type III [19 written over?] [Type] 235 =P.11 [drawing 2:5]
1145 (none) (none) (none) Hemispherical Pot. Drab clay. (Broken in 2) Like U.1114
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
1445A (none) (none) (none) (none)
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]
17893B (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]
17899A (none) (none) (none) (none)
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.
18102 32-40-141 (none) (none) Head of statue in dark grey steatite. Fragment: only the back of the head with the ears and the corner of one eye. Clean shaven. Broken off across the neck.
18103 32-40-1 (none) (none) Vase of glazed frit. The sides are decorated with petals in relief which were colored alternately yellow and black (?): the colors are bleached and the black (?) scarcely shows. [drawing]
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.
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