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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 674 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bone inlay. A quantity of pieces, square rosettes, etc, clearly from a box of which the wood has wholly perished. |
| 17899 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bone object. For applique to some piece of furniture (?) [drawing 1:1] |
| 18295 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bone toilet instrument (?) With ring at top, now broken. Smoothed and pointed. |
| 849 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bowl. Blue glaze over drab clay. Type LXXXII =44 [P.44 or photo. Designation unclear.] |
| 664 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bronze + iron. Rings + anklets a quantity of, mostly broken + all in very bad condition. |
| 801 | (none) | 1923,1110.172 | (none) | Bronze fibula. Pin missing. Regular Persian period type. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 697 | (none) | 1923,1110.142 | (none) | Bronze situla. [drawing] | |
| 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 | |
| 922 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay Bowl. Drab clay, wheelmade, broken. Type LXXVII. =P.28 |
| 952 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay Bowl. Drab clay, wheelmade, broken. Type LXXXI =P.47 |
| 851 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay bowl. Drab clay, wheelmade. Type XLIII. = new P.21a |
| 923 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay bowl. Reddish drab clay. Wheelmade, broken. Type LXXVII, but the contour is straiter, the foot is not so distinct. =P.28 |
| 846 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay casket of badly-fired flakey black clay with incised & punctured design filled in with white. Broken & in bad condition. [drawing] |
| 18336 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay cone of Larsa type. Fragmentary. |
| 18227 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay cone. Base of Larsa type, with text intact (? Warad-Sin ?) |
| 18228 | 33-35-192, 33-35-192 | (none) | (none) | Clay cone. Fragment of the stem only. Large Larsa type about 2/3 of text preserved (? Warad-Sin) |
| 18107 | (none) | 1932,1008.1 | (none) | Clay cone. Upper part of stem and about 1/3 of base missing: larsa type. |
| 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. |
| 18108 | 32-40-36 | (none) | (none) | Clay head hand modelled of a negro (?) very fine work, but much damaged. Broken off at base of neck. | |
| 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 |
| 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 | |
| 793 | (none) | (none) | B15387 | Clay pot of creamy white ware, finely finished. Flat base. Type LXXXIII =P.135 [drawing] | |
| 913 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay pot. Drab clay, wheelmade. Type LXX =P.137. |
| 660 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay pot. Drab clay, wheelmade. [below] Type LXIX but the foot is less distinct + the neck has a New Bab. look (cf. Type LVII). The shoulder has "Persian" wheelmarkings. [circled] P.88 |
| 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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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