XNCF

General

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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U Number	Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)	Museum Number (BM Registration Number)	Museum Number (UPM B-number)	Description (Catalog Card)
696	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads (re-strung) Large beads of mixed irregular shapes in carnelian, agate, lapis, malachite, pebble, granite, etc. very ugly, 28 in all.
697	(none)	1923,1110.142	(none)	Bronze situla. [drawing]
698A	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-D] Bronze finger rings. (4) (A fifth was broken and therefore chucked) of flattened bronze.
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
766	(none)	1923,1110.78	(none)	Clay pot. Drab clay. Wheelmade. Type LXVIII. Not P.
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
794	(none)	1923,1110.74	(none)	Clay pot of creamy white clay finely finished. Flat base. Same type as U.793. Type LXXXIII =P.135
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]
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.
801	(none)	1923,1110.172	(none)	Bronze fibula. Pin missing. Regular Persian period type. [drawing 1:1]
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
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.
809	(none)	1923,1110.107	(none)	Terracotta relief. Moulded Woman suckling a child. In whitish drab clay. Poor work, proportions bad: surface weathered. [drawing 1:1]
834A	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay tripods. (4) Four 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.
839	(none)	(none)	(none)	Iron dagger. Broken into 5 pieces, then extreme tip missing, with it an iron object, thus [drawing 1:1] probably end of a scabbard or hilt.
840A	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-D] Iron arrowheads (4). A fifth of the same type as A, is corroded to A and part of a 6th is corroded on to B. [drawing 1:1] [A,B, and C are all definitely shown, presumably the 4th drawing belongs to D; however, it is unlabeled.]