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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15779 | 31-16-976 | (none) | (none) | Terracotta figurine. Horse and rider. Fragment. Head and legs missing. Type same as 15739 | |
 | 15777 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Baked clay. |
| 15775 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone vase. Alabaster alabastron. 2 small lug handles. |
| 15752 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Terracotta mould. For head of PUZUZU. |
| 15747 | 31-16-843 | (none) | (none) | Terracotta figurine. Nude female wearing wig. Hands clasped below breast. Two large strings of beads round neck. | |
| 15746 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Terracotta figurine. Nude female in high relief. Wearing a wig, necklace, bangles and supporting a pot against the abdomen in the left hand. Right arm hangs downwards and must have grasped some object. Legs missing. |
| 15744 | 31-16-970 | (none) | (none) | Terracotta figurine. Animal in the round - otter(?). | |
| 15743 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Terracotta figurine. Camel(?) Very rough modelling. Fragment. Head and legs missing. Repaired in antiiquity (traces of bitumen on one foreleg). [drawing 1:1] |
| 15742 | 31-16-978 | (none) | (none) | Terracotta figurine. Horse and rider. Fragment. Horse has a pronounced mane. Legs of horse and most of rider missing. | |
| 15741 | (none) | 1935,0113.79 | (none) | Terracotta figurine. Horse and rider. Fragment. heads and legs missing. | |
| 15740 | 31-16-744 | (none) | (none) | Terracotta figurine. Buffalo(?) head. Neck hollowed, originally decorating a pot(?). | |
| 15739 | (none) | 1935,0113.78 | (none) | Terracotta figurine. Horse and rider. Fragment. Head of rider and of horse missing. Legs of horse missing. | |
| 15737 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Terracotta Head. PUZUZU in 3/4 relief. Fine specimen. |
| 15733 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Terracotta figurine. Nude female wearing wig and supporting a baby at the breast. 3 necklaces. Missing below knees. |
| 15728 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Terracotta head. PUZUZU. In 3/4 relief. |
| 15712 | 31-16-776 | (none) | (none) | Terracotta figurine. Bearded deity, tall and slim, peg-shaped below waist, naturalistic above. Wearing long coat covering one arm and leaving the other exposed. On either side two long snakes. Heads level with head of figure. | |
| 15711 | (none) | 1930,1213.328 | (none) | Terracotta plaque. Pair of demons, both standing-full face. One a bearded male, the other a female: both wearing flannel kaukanes skirts, the male figure carries a flabellum(?). | |
| 15710 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Duck weight miniature. Hematite. [drawing 1:1] |
| 15709 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Puzuzu head. Minature. Glazed with cylindrical neck. [drawing 1:1] |
| 15708 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Glazed beads: worked ball heads and 1 barrel. [drawing] |
| 15707 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stamp seal. Glazed. [drawing 1:1] |
| 15706 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Scaraboid seal. Glazed. Engraved with ichthyomorphic? designs? [drawing 1:1] |
| 15704 | 31-17-144 | (none) | (none) | Beads. Silver, agate, shell & carnelian mixed. | |
| 15703 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stamp seal. Chacedony. Poorly cut. [drawing] |
| 15702 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Gold earring. Small lunate type. Similar to 15484. |
| 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.