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)
14425A 98-9-75 (none) (none) Copper fibula. Hoop spiral. Type 3. [drawing 1:1]
13009A 52-30-94 (none) (none) Tablets [A] Contract complete with fragments of [B] case. [C-E other tablets with U.13009 identification]
15096 52-30-73, 52-30-73 (none) (none) Tablet. Contract.
13007 52-30-45 (none) (none) Tablet contract complete and payments of case in box.
15675 52-30-224, 52-30-224 (none) (none) Tablet. Fragmentary document of about Larsa period.
15093 47-29-80 (none) (none) Tablet. Business document. Dated. Var. of Dungi 24 ? or 31 ? HC.519.
15093A 47-29-80 (none) (none) (none)
15669 47-29-333, 47-29-333 (none) (none) Tablet. Ur 3 tablet ? date = Ibin-Sin 2???
16117 31-43-66 (none) (none) Stamp seal. Mauve chalcedony(?) Concial-suspended by copper wire. Roughly engraved with figure of a man. [drawing]
16203 31-43-612 (none) (none) Glazed pot. Blue glaze, much decayed, with grooved decoration. Persian period. Type 671 = 107P. [drawing]
16286B 31-43-511A (none) (none) [A-G] Group from one grave: [A] (1) Small green glazed bottle, Type LXXXVIII; [B-C] (2) Pair copper bracelets with ends; [D] (3) Copper finger ring with flat bezel; [E] (4) Sard scaraboid incised; [F] (5) Carnelian scaraboid engraved; [G] (6) 2 carnelian & one green glazed ball beads; [H-I] (7) 2 slender copper pins with the ends turned over (or point of one pin broken).
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]
17138A 31-43-328 (none) (none) Terracotta demon's head in very high relief. (A) Almost complete = good impression. [drawing 1:1]
16219A 31-43-165B (none) (none) [A] Fibula, bronze. Slender type. Pin broken: with it [B] 11 beads of carnelian, lapis, agate, band sard. [drawing 1:1]
16219B 31-43-165A (none) (none) [A] Fibula, bronze. Slender type. Pin broken: with it [B] 11 beads of carnelian, lapis, agate, band sard. [drawing 1:1]
16213 31-43-146 (none) (none) Beads: A large number of rather irregularly shaped balls of banded green & yellow glaze, well preserved: larger ball beads of glass paste, dark blue with white veinings or plain blue: and a few smaller glass beads (clour gone) either bugles or..., these apprantly of yellow glaze; originally a very poor string. With these a scarab of pale blue glazed frit, fairly realistic. [drawing]
16142 31-43-133 (none) (none) Beads: lapis paste double conoids: glazed frit double conoids; 1 amethystine quartz concial bead. [drawing]
16211 31-43-1 (none) (none) Stamp seal. Pink limestone. In the form of a recumbent calf; on the flat back a rough design of 2 animals done with drill-holes and engraved lines. This is an early Sumerian piece which is found ina Persian period grave, and must have been an antiquity. [drawing 1:1]
15065 31-17-8 (none) (none) Copper statue. Basket-bearing man naked above, from waist of flattened - cylindrical form, pointed at the base. Traces of inscription - not decipherable before cleaning, presumably -15063/4
15064 31-17-7 (none) (none) Stone Tablet inscription. As 15063 (with some errors in the script?) HC.16.
15190.2 31-17-62 (none) (none) [.1-.2] Beads. Amethyst - hexagonal lentoids; glazed frit-lentoids. Copper balls.
15178A.1 31-17-279 (none) (none) [A.1-.2] A pair silver earrings. Single coil-ends overlapping.
15178A.2 31-17-279 (none) (none) [A.1-.2] A pair silver earrings. Single coil-ends overlapping.
15449 31-17-276 (none) (none) Bronze platter (?) With handle also in bronze (to be hafted onto wood?) with narrow rim; end of handle is missing. [drawing 1:5]
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Media: City Wall | CLW Export: JSON - XML - CSV

Media Media Title Title Label Author Omeka Label
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)
Ur Excavations VI; The Ur III Period Ur Excavations VI; The Ur III Period 1974 Woolley, Leonard (none)
Ur Excavations VII; The Old Babylonian Period Ur Excavations VII; The Old Babylonian Period 1976 Woolley, L. and M. Mallowan (none)
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)
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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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