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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).

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U Number	Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)	Museum Number (BM Registration Number)	Museum Number (UPM B-number)	Description (Catalog Card)
15455B	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-B] 2 bronze finger rings. One plain, circular in section with loose ends, the second has a circular bezel, engraved ? and is made of flat strip of metal. [drawing 1:1]
15192.1	(none)	1930,1213.93	(none)	[.1-.2] Beads. Glazed frit and copper ball beads, and a few square section bone bugles.
15192.2	31-17-141	(none)	(none)	[.1-.2] Beads. Glazed frit and copper ball beads, and a few square section bone bugles.
15190.1	(none)	1935,0113.448	(none)	[.1-.2] Beads. Amethyst - hexagonal lentoids; glazed frit-lentoids. Copper balls.
15190.2	31-17-62	(none)	(none)	[.1-.2] Beads. Amethyst - hexagonal lentoids; glazed frit-lentoids. Copper balls.
16101	(none)	(none)	(none)	Vase. Glass paste: blue
16169	(none)	(none)	(none)	Vase. Apple green glazed baked clay.
17137	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Seated draped goddess holding patera or wreath. (A) Fragment missing below waist. [drawing 1:1]
16109A	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta Relief. Nude woman with hands clasped over breast, hair-in close- set parallel waves. Good modelling. Type III c.z. (A) Fragment broken away at hips: good impression; (B) Fragment broken away at hips good impression; (C) Fragment almost identical but from a slightly larger mould, fragment broken off at waist.
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(?).
15752	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta mould. For head of PUZUZU.
15728	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta head. PUZUZU. In 3/4 relief.
15737	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta Head. PUZUZU in 3/4 relief. Fine specimen.
16445B	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta Figurines. Mother & child: Type V.3, (A) Head missing, poor condition, complete; (B) From larger mould, but same type, head missing, complete; (C) from larger mould, but same type, head missing; (D) Complete; (E) Complete; (F) Head missing, poor cast; (G) Complete, bad impression; (H) Head missing; (J) Complete; (K)Complete (different mould) (L) Complete (same as mould K); (M) Fragment head and base missing; (N) Probably similar, but from larger mould, only upper part to arm preserved. (O) complete, poor impression; (P) Head missing; (Q) Head missing; (R) Complete; (S) Complete; (T) Complete.
16445C	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta Figurines. Mother & child: Type V.3, (A) Head missing, poor condition, complete; (B) From larger mould, but same type, head missing, complete; (C) from larger mould, but same type, head missing; (D) Complete; (E) Complete; (F) Head missing, poor cast; (G) Complete, bad impression; (H) Head missing; (J) Complete; (K)Complete (different mould) (L) Complete (same as mould K); (M) Fragment head and base missing; (N) Probably similar, but from larger mould, only upper part to arm preserved. (O) complete, poor impression; (P) Head missing; (Q) Head missing; (R) Complete; (S) Complete; (T) Complete.
15733	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta figurine. Nude female wearing wig and supporting a baby at the breast. 3 necklaces. Missing below knees.
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.
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.
15739	(none)	1935,0113.78	(none)	Terracotta figurine. Horse and rider. Fragment. Head of rider and of horse missing. Legs of horse missing.
15779	31-16-976	(none)	(none)	Terracotta figurine. Horse and rider. Fragment. Head and legs missing. Type same as 15739
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]
15740	31-16-744	(none)	(none)	Terracotta figurine. Buffalo(?) head. Neck hollowed, originally decorating a pot(?).
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.

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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)