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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 14431A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bronze fibula. Type same as U.14428. |
| 14432A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Seal pendant. Limestone. Cut as an animal possibly a hedgehog(?) and engraved in flat side with 2 gazelles or antelopes (?) Perforated vertically for suspension. [drawing 1:1] |
| 14433A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Necklace. Agate and carnelian lentoids. Carnelian bulbs. |
| 14435A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bronze object. Flat seal? Buoy shaped. [drawing 1:1] |
| 14436A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Flat seal. Chalcedony. Mauve. Faceted and suspended by a copper hook. Typical Persian period stamp seal. Engraved with design of a bearded deity wearing a cap and a long coat hand raised over a horse on the back of which is a pedestal supporting a crescent in a hole attribute and star. |
| 14437A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver vessel. Situla shaped without handle. Type 12. [drawing 1:5] |
| 14438A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bronze platter. Fluted (very shallow fluting) on the outside. Type 9 [drawing 2:5] |
| 14439A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Gold diadem. [drawing 1:1] |
| 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. |
| 15063C | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay cones. (A) Nearly complete. Inscription on stem complete. Inscription on head partly broken. |
| 15066A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Group (A) Brick =RIU 119 + 12570 (HC. 1928/9 - 115) lines 1-15 slightly completing lines 14 & 15 (B) Also another fragment of same (not preserved). (C) Another small frgment (not preserved) (D) Another fragment slightly completing 12570 line 17-19 & 24. HC.13 [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card] |
| 15067 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay cone. Broken. new insc. Prob. Warad-Sin. HC.14 |
| 15068 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay cone. Fragment. Prob. Rim-Sin or Warad-Sin. HC.19 |
| 15069 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay cone. Fragment. Rim-Sin or Warad-Sin, complete RIU 130 in part (e-ga-bur-ra ) HC.15 |
| 15070 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay cone. Fragment (15662) Rim-Sin HC.17 |
| 15071 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay cone. Fragment. A Larsa king, unidentified or new. HC.18 |
| 15072 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet. Fragment (Ur 3 writing?). [annotated] not yet copied. | |
| 15073 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet. Fragmentary. Containing date of Rim-Sin 35 (?) HC.708 |
| 15074 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet. Fragmentary. Containing date of Rim-Sin 33 (?) HC.708 |
| 15075 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet. Fragmentary. Containing date of Rim-Sin 34 (?) HC.708 |
| 15076 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet. Fragment. Large account tablet (Larsa Dynasty?) |
| 15077 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet. Fragmentary. Containing in variant forms date of Rim-Sin 34 (latter not certain?) cf. HC.708 |
| 15078 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet. Fragmentary. Containing in variant forms date of Rim-Sin 34 (latter not certain?) cf. HC.708 |
| 15079 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet. Obverse. Larsa contract(?) |
| 15080 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet. Fragment. With date of Rim-Sin 35. cf. HC.708. |
| Media | Media Title | Title | Label | Author | Omeka Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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) |
| 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 IX; The Neo-Babylonian and Persian Periods | Ur Excavations IX; The Neo-Babylonian and Persian Periods | 1962 | Woolley, L. and Mallowan, Max | (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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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.