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)
15445 31-17-263 (none) (none) Bronze finger ring.
15500B 31-17-259.2 (none) (none) [A-B] Copper Bracelets. Circular in section. Plain.
15500A 31-17-259.1 (none) (none) [A-B] Copper Bracelets. Circular in section. Plain.
15704 31-17-144 (none) (none) Beads. Silver, agate, shell & carnelian mixed.
15192.2 31-17-141 (none) (none) [.1-.2] Beads. Glazed frit and copper ball beads, and a few square section bone bugles.
15813 31-17-124, 31-17-124 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Inscribed.
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.
15779 31-16-976 (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Horse and rider. Fragment. Head and legs missing. Type same as 15739
15744 31-16-970 (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Animal in the round - otter(?).
15747 31-16-843 (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Nude female wearing wig. Hands clasped below breast. Two large strings of beads round neck.
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.
15740 31-16-744 (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Buffalo(?) head. Neck hollowed, originally decorating a pot(?).
15470 31-16-365 (none) (none) Stone bowl. Grey steatite. Decorated round rim with concentric circles. [drawing 2:5]
13108 31-16-358 (none) (none) Brick. Contains all the inscription (19? Lines), which is however badly defaced. Apparently completes the fragments RIU 120 and U.11662. (Sin-idinnam) (which are half-bricks).
14443B 31-16-179 (none) (none) Baked clay saucer. Pinkish drab. Type CCCLXXXII. P.33.
15468 31-16-131 (none) (none) Baked clay bottle. Glazed. Type CCCLII. 178. P. [P.178]
15467 31-16-130 (none) (none) Baked clay vase. Glazed. Type CCCLXXXVI. 171b. P. [P.171b?]
15183 31-16-128 (none) (none) Clay bottle. Blue glazed. Type: CCCLIII. P.169.
15174 31-16-115 (none) (none) Baked clay vase. Blue(?) glazed. Surface decayed. Type:CCCL =103b (P)
13031 30-12-44 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Greenish. Presentation scene and 1 dwarf-like figure.
12970 (none) (none) (none) Cone. =RIU 127. Warad-Sin. Baghdad token.
12971 (none) (none) (none) Cone. 3 fragments = RIU 131. Warad-Sin.
12972 (none) (none) (none) Cone fragment. Larsa probably. Unidentified. HC 118.
12973 (none) (none) (none) Hollow clay cylinder fragment. Author unknown. HC 119.
12974 (none) (none) (none) Clay cylinder. Fragment. 1st sign only of ten lines.

Media: City Wall | CLW Export: JSON - XML - CSV

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 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 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)
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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