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). |
Files
| Object | U Number | Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) | Museum Number (BM Registration Number) | Museum Number (UPM B-number) | Description (Catalog Card) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 15464 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Baked clay bowl. Greyish drab. Burnished. Type CCCLXXXIV. 84. P. [P84?] |
| 14443B | 31-16-179 | (none) | (none) | Baked clay saucer. Pinkish drab. Type CCCLXXXII. P.33. | |
| 15173 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Baked clay vase. Blue glazed. Pomegranate(?) shaped. Box-like body, umbilical bottom. =new type (P)175 |
| 15174 | 31-16-115 | (none) | (none) | Baked clay vase. Blue(?) glazed. Surface decayed. Type:CCCL =103b (P) | |
| 15467 | 31-16-130 | (none) | (none) | Baked clay vase. Glazed. Type CCCLXXXVI. 171b. P. [P.171b?] | |
| 14442A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Baked clay vase. Light drab. Type CCCLXXX. [annotation on card] This is type a U.34!. Sir Leonard Woolley thinks this old type no. may be duplicated, but there is no trace of another type drawing for CCCLXXX. Ignore pot. |
| 15193 | (none) | 1930,1213.96 | (none) | Beads. Amethyst, carnelian and glzed frit. Faceted lentoids, 4-faced - lonzenge shaped in section, and hexagonal amethyst lentoids. Carnelian rings and balls, convex on either side and elliptical in section. |
| 15188 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Glazed frit lentoids; carnelian lentoids. |
| 15175 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Agate, carnelian, chalcedony. Two of the agates shaped thus: varied shapes: three-faced lentoids; cushion-shaped beads; balls, rings, barrels and lozenges. (lunate, heartshaped). [drawing 1:1] |
| 14429A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Carnelian ring beads. Red jasper double conoids. Quartzite cylindrical. Steatite? Discoid, flat one side, convex on the other . Agate lentoid and pendant shapes thus. [drawing] |
| 14440B | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Carnelian, red jasper, copper, agate, quartzite double conoids. |
| 14426A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Glazed balls. |
| 15172 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Glazed barrels, frit. Agate lentoid. Carnelian double conoid. [drawing 1:1] |
| 15176 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Glazed frit miniature rings. A mass. |
| 14423A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Glazed rings? |
| 15809 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Lapis and carnelian beads. Glazed balls. |
| 14433A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Necklace. Agate and carnelian lentoids. Carnelian bulbs. |
| 15704 | 31-17-144 | (none) | (none) | Beads. Silver, agate, shell & carnelian mixed. | |
| 14430A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Small glazed rings. |
| 13040 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Two agate. 1 carnelian ring bead. 1 glazed ball bead. |
| 16217A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads: (A) small gold lunate earring. (B) Glazed frit scaraboid; (C) A few beads, carnelian, lapis glaze, mixed shapes. Persian period. |
| 16217B | (none) | 1931,1010.226 | (none) | Beads: (A) small gold lunate earring. (B) Glazed frit scaraboid; (C) A few beads, carnelian, lapis glaze, mixed shapes. Persian period. |
| 16217C | (none) | 1931,1010.226 | (none) | Beads: (A) small gold lunate earring. (B) Glazed frit scaraboid; (C) A few beads, carnelian, lapis glaze, mixed shapes. Persian period. |
| 15180 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads: balls, barrels, faceted tubluar beads, 3-sided lentoids, lozenges, lunate. Amethyst, carnelian, chalcedony, agate, glazed frit: 1 blue glazed frit eye of Horus. Persian. |
| 15462 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads: carnelian double conoids & cylindrical; lapis lazuli cylindrical; 2 gold balls; 1 rock crystal ball; 1 silver decorated head. [drawing] TA |
| 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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Sibling Locations
AH Site | AH - 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 - XNCF - Ziggurat Terrace | ZT
Child Locations
CLW Graves - Kassite Graves - Larsa Graves - Neo-Babylonian Graves - Nin-Giz-Zida Temple | Nin-Ezen Temple | NT - Persian Grave - Rim Sin Temple | RS
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References
Woolley, Leonard. (1974) Ur Excavations VI; The Ur III Period, Oxford: Oxford University Press.