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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 15487 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads: carnelian rings; onyx barels; paste balls; 1 faceted amethyst cylindrical. |
| 15453 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads: Gold, agate and carnelian balls, and double conoids. |
| 16285 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads: mostly amethyst. 4 facetted flattened lentoids, with these some squares of banded sard, small carnelian balls and some paste and shell rings, and a crescent-shaped pendant of agate. For order see Field Notes. |
| 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] | |
| 16212 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads: A mixed lot of paste, carnelian, agate, jasper, cats eye, crystal, breccia, sard, hematite, lapis, copper, amethyst. Order not kept. |
| 16138 | (none) | 1931,1010.218 | (none) | Beads: agate double conoids; carnelian double conoids; quartzite double concoids; carnelian ring beads. |
| 15403 | (none) | 1930,1213.95 | (none) | Beads: Amethysts. Faceted double conoids & 3-sided lentoids. Agate. Tubular beads and heart-shaped pendant. Carnelian ring beads & faceted balls. Onyx: barrel. |
| 15404 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads: Carnelian balls & double conoids. Agate lentoids and balls. Sard(?) bead shaped like a double bun. Gold double conoid with circular ridged ends. [drawing 1:1] |
| 15488 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads: carnelian rings. A few paste cylindrical lapis lazuli paste ring beads - minute, a large number. |
| 16115 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads: carnelian rings; white sard lentoid; green glaze balls; paste lentoids; amethyst double conoids; breceia triangle, agate barrels and lapis paste. (for order of stringing see Field Note). |
| 16205 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads: Dark steatite scaraboid, on the base a scorpion roughly drawn. Glazed scarab (glaze gone); and some glazed lentoid beads, one of pink pebble, one crystal bead & a big hematite ball bead. [drawing] |
| 16136 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads: glass paste double conoids: ball beads; pear shaped; 1 plain amethystine; quartz scaraboid; 1 lapis paste cuboid. |
| 15463 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads: glazed cylindrical. Composite glazed ring beads. Composite glazed cylindrical in the shape of three tubes. Lapis paste cylindrical and 1 conical shell spindle whorl. Decorated with incised concentric circles. [drawing 1:1] |
| 15402 | (none) | 1935,0113.449 | (none) | Beads: glazed frit balls. Copper balls. Minute. |
| 15465 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads: glazed ring beads & cylindrical & some frit barrels. |
| 16142 | 31-43-133 | (none) | (none) | Beads: lapis paste double conoids: glazed frit double conoids; 1 amethystine quartz concial bead. [drawing] | |
| 15458 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bottle. Blue glazed. Type CCCLII. New 178. P. [P.178?] TA |
| 16316 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bottle. Blue glazed. Type CCLVIII. 188P. [P188?] |
| 15181 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bottle. Clay. Green? glazed. Surface decayed. Type CCCLI. =P.197. |
| 16214 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bowl, miniature limestone. With a solid knob projection (broken), and decoration of rosette on base & godroons on sides. [drawing] |
| 15657 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Brick. 13 or more circular holes on the edge. |
| 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). | |
| 14441B | (none) | 1930,1213.21 | (none) | Bronze bangle. Ends loose. Rectangular in section. [Additional notes on back, possibly names of worers?] [drawing 1:1] |
| 15490 | (none) | 1930,1213.54 | (none) | Bronze bracelet. With splayed ends. [drawing] | |
| 14428A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bronze fibula. Hoop spiral. [Type 3] Same as G.77(4) [drawing 1:1] |
| 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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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.