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

Object	U Number	Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)	Museum Number (BM Registration Number)	Museum Number (UPM B-number)	Description (Catalog Card)
	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]

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)