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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 15192.1 | (none) | 1930,1213.93 | (none) | [.1-.2] Beads. Glazed frit and copper ball beads, and a few square section bone bugles. |
| 15446 | (none) | 1930,1213.679 | (none) | Baked clay bowl. Decorated below neck with impressed circles, and a thin band left in relief running vertically with the vertical axis of the pot. Type CCCLXXXIII. New (P)14. |
| 15490 | (none) | 1930,1213.54 | (none) | Bronze bracelet. With splayed ends. [drawing] | |
| 15499A | (none) | 1930,1213.52 | (none) | [A-B] 2 copper braceletes. Penannuler. Ends thus: [drawing] | |
| 14424A | (none) | 1930,1213.51 | (none) | Copper bangle. C shaped. Ends loose. Circular in section. |
| 15789 | (none) | 1930,1213.487 | (none) | Copper tweezers. [drawing] | |
| 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(?). | |
| 15187 | (none) | 1930,1213.326 | (none) | Clay saucer. Blue glazed. Type: CCCLVI = 41. | |
| 15195 | (none) | 1930,1213.310 | (none) | Clay bowl. Light drab. Baked. Egg-shell ware. Decorated with band of very shallow and short oblique lines running round vase about half way down. Type: CCXXXVI. 3bP [P.3b?] |
| 14422A.1 | (none) | 1930,1213.28 | (none) | [A.1-.2] Copper earrings. A pair. With 3 pear shaped pendants consisting of minute globules, hanging from the ring |
| 14422A.2 | (none) | 1930,1213.28 | (none) | [A.1-.2] Copper earrings. A pair. With 3 pear shaped pendants consisting of minute globules, hanging from the ring. |
| 15486 | (none) | 1930,1213.25 | (none) | Bronze finger ring. Flat oval bezel. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 15171A.1 | (none) | 1930,1213.23 | (none) | [A.1-.2] A pair silver earrings. Decorated with 6 pear shaped pendants each pendant composed of minute globules, flat on one side and bossed on the other. Not in catalog. |
| 15171A.2 | (none) | 1930,1213.22 | (none) | [A.1-.2] A pair silver earrings. Decorated with 6 pear shaped pendants each pendant composed of minute globules, flat on one side and bossed on the other. Not in catalog. |
| 14441B | (none) | 1930,1213.21 | (none) | Bronze bangle. Ends loose. Rectangular in section. [Additional notes on back, possibly names of worers?] [drawing 1:1] |
| 15807 | (none) | 1930,1213.144 | (none) | Scaraboid seal. Glazed. [drawing 1:1] |
| 15491 | (none) | 1930,1213.143 | (none) | Stamp seal. Rounded, upper side umbilical. Greenish glaze with design of a dog(?). [drawing 1:1] |
| 15493 | (none) | 1930,1213.142 | (none) | Scaraboid seal. Now dull yellow. glazed. Incised with design of sphinx. [drawing 1:1] |
| 15494 | (none) | 1930,1213.134 | (none) | Cylinder seal. Red jasper. Presentation. |
| 13036A | (none) | 1929,1017.490 | (none) | [A-B] 2 copper disks. one broken | |
| 13036B | (none) | 1929,1017.490 | (none) | [A-B] 2 copper disks. one broken | |
| 13035B | (none) | 1929,1017.466 | (none) | [A-B] 2 haematite weights. Lentoid shapes. Type II. [C-F Additional letters weights according to British Museum] |
| 13035E | (none) | 1929,1017.465 | (none) | [A-B] 2 hematite weights. Lentoid shapes. Type II. [C-F Additional letters weights according to British Museum] |
| 13035D | (none) | 1929,1017.464 | (none) | [A-B] 2 haematite weights. Lentoid shapes. Type II. [C-F Additional letters weights according to British Museum] |
| 13035C | (none) | 1929,1017.463 | (none) | [A-B] 2 haematite weights. Lentoid shapes. Type II. [C-F Additional letters weights according to British Museum] |
| 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 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) |
| 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) |
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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.