City Wall | CLW

Context Title: City Wall | CLW     
Context Name (Excavation): Central Long Wall     
Context Name (Excavation): City Long Wall     
Context Description: The meaning of the excavation area abbreviation CLW is not precisely clear. Some references to it state that it is the central portion of the northeastern city wall, thus it might mean Central Long Wall. Field notes with the abbreviation, however, refer to excavation squares along the entirety of the edge of the mound where the outer city wall once stood and thus it more likely to refer to the City Long Wall as a whole. H.R. Hall dug a 12 meter trench across the city wall in 1919, but Woolley began his investigations of it in February of 1929. In a period of a few days he exposed 100 meters of the length of the wall behind his dig house. In the next season he set his workers to tracing the entirety of the wall, which ran approximately 2.5 miles around the city. To uncover it they simply followed the outer line of the wall to no great depth and made cross cut trenches to assess the width of the wall at intervals. Despite the great extent, the tracing of the wall took only one month. In a report sent from the field in February of 1930, Woolley said, "...the wall is a complete ruin; not a vestige of the burnt-brick wall proper has been discovered and in few places does more survive than the weathered stump of the huge mud-brick rampart along which the wall originally ran." The investigations showed the original wall to be between 25 and 34 meters wide and Woolley estimated that it once stood to a height of 8 meters. On the central portion of the east side, he found and excavated partial houses. Woolley believed that for portions of Ur's history, the backs of these houses formed the defensive wall itself. Many of the objects marked as CLW come from this specific area of houses along the wall, and this is likely the reason that CLW in abbreviation lists is said to be the central portion of the northeast city wall. The sloping revetment that was often found in CLW squares was evidence of the bank of a canal running along the east side of the city. Some of the CLW squares also contained other excavation areas, such as the North and West harbors, the so-called Kassite Fort, the Rim Sin temple (RS), and the Nin-Ezen Temple (NT).     

Objects: City Wall | CLW Export: JSON - XML - CSV

Object U Number Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) Museum Number (BM Registration Number) Museum Number (UPM B-number) Description (Catalog Card)
16209 (none) (none) (none) Scaraboid seal. Paste (bleached white). Design thus. [drawing 1:1]
16208B 31-43-510B (none) (none) [A-B] Bracelets, pair, copper. Rectangular section the ends floriate. Thus. [drawing]
16208A 31-43-510A (none) (none) [A-B] Bracelets, pair, copper. Rectangular section the ends floriate. Thus. [drawing]
16207 (none) (none) (none) Glazed pot. Persian period. Type 258. =188P. TA. [drawing]
16206 (none) (none) (none) Arrowhead, bronze, 3-flanged, type L. UET V: 324 FOR 16206E)
16205 (none) (none) (none) Beads: Dark steatite scaraboid, on the base a scorpion roughly drawn. Glazed scarab (glaze gone); and some glazed lentoid beads, one of pink pebble, one crystal bead & a big hematite ball bead. [drawing]
16204 (none) (none) (none) Bronze Fibula. Persian period. Type 4.[drawing 1:1]
16203 31-43-612 (none) (none) Glazed pot. Blue glaze, much decayed, with grooved decoration. Persian period. Type 671 = 107P. [drawing]
16202 (none) (none) (none) Copper bracelets. heavy type with broken ends. Persian period. [drawing]
16201 (none) 1931,1010.292 (none) Copper bowl. Good condition. Persian date. [drawing]
16176 (none) (none) (none) Scaraboid seal. Lapis lazuli. Palm tree.
16169 (none) (none) (none) Vase. Apple green glazed baked clay.
16150 (none) 1931,1010.53 (none) Cylinder seal. Baked clay. Squatting monkey(?) bull, crescent moon .=L.622 [Typology?] Legrain puts seals 460-573 as Isin-Larsa. Numbers below 403 back to 270 as IIIrd Dynasty.
16143B (none) 1931,1010.282 (none) [A-B] Pair. Copper Bangles. C-shaped with heavy ends. cf. U.16116
16143A (none) 1931,1010.282 (none) [A-B] Pair. Copper Bangles. C-shaped with heavy ends. cf. U.16116
16142 31-43-133 (none) (none) Beads: lapis paste double conoids: glazed frit double conoids; 1 amethystine quartz concial bead. [drawing]
16140B (none) (none) (none) [A-B] Pair. Scaraboid seals. Frit.
16140A (none) (none) (none) [A-B] Pair. Scaraboid seals. Frit.
16138 (none) 1931,1010.218 (none) Beads: agate double conoids; carnelian double conoids; quartzite double concoids; carnelian ring beads.
16137B (none) (none) (none) [A-B] Pair of scaraboid seals. Glaze paste.
16137A (none) (none) (none) [A-B] Pair of scaraboid seals. Glaze paste.
16136 (none) (none) (none) Beads: glass paste double conoids: ball beads; pear shaped; 1 plain amethystine; quartz scaraboid; 1 lapis paste cuboid.
16131 (none) (none) (none) Rectangular lead plaque. [Additional note on back of card, possibly worker names] [drawing 1:1]
16123 (none) 1931,1010.34 (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. 2 registers. Above: presentation scene - 3 standing figures. Below: geese(?).
16120 (none) (none) (none) Scaraboid seal. Dark green glazed frit. Engraved with crescent moon and squatting man. [drawing]

Media: City Wall | CLW Export: JSON - XML - CSV

Media Media Title Title Label Author Omeka Label
Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Ur_Notes_v2_p231c Ur_Notes_v2_p231c (none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Ur_Notes_v2_p232 Ur_Notes_v2_p232 (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)
Ur Excavations VII; The Old Babylonian Period Ur Excavations VII; The Old Babylonian Period 1976 Woolley, L. and M. Mallowan (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 VI; The Ur III Period Ur Excavations VI; The Ur III Period 1974 Woolley, Leonard (none)
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References

Woolley, Leonard. (1974) Ur Excavations VI; The Ur III Period, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Woolley, L. and Mallowan, Max. (1962) Ur Excavations IX; The Neo-Babylonian and Persian Periods, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Woolley, L. and M. Mallowan . (1976) Ur Excavations VII; The Old Babylonian Period, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Woolley, Leonard. (1965 ) Ur Excavations VIII; The Kassite Period and the period of the Assyrian Kings, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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