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). |
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Object | U Number | Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) | Museum Number (BM Registration Number) | Museum Number (UPM B-number) | Description (Catalog Card) |
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17138A | 31-43-328 | (none) | (none) | Terracotta demon's head in very high relief. (A) Almost complete = good impression. [drawing 1:1] | |
17137 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Terracotta relief. Seated draped goddess holding patera or wreath. (A) Fragment missing below waist. [drawing 1:1] | |
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. | |
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. | |
16316 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bottle. Blue glazed. Type CCLVIII. 188P. [P188?] | |
16286I | (none) | 1931,1010.235 | (none) | [A-G] Group from one grave: [A] (1) Small green glazed bottle, Type LXXXVIII; [B-C] (2) Pair copper bracelets with ends; [D] (3) Copper finger ring with flat bezel; [E] (4) Sard scaraboid incised; [F] (5) Carnelian scaraboid engraved; [G] (6) 2 carnelian & one green glazed ball beads; [H-I] (7) 2 slender copper pins with the ends turned over (or point of one pin broken). | |
16286H | (none) | 1931,1010.235 | (none) | [A-G] Group from one grave: [A] (1) Small green glazed bottle, Type LXXXVIII; [B-C] (2) Pair copper bracelets with ends; [D] (3) Copper finger ring with flat bezel; [E] (4) Sard scaraboid incised; [F] (5) Carnelian scaraboid engraved; [G] (6) 2 carnelian & one green glazed ball beads; [H-I] (7) 2 slender copper pins with the ends turned over (or point of one pin broken). | |
16286G | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-G] Group from one grave: [A] (1) Small green glazed bottle, Type LXXXVIII; [B-C] (2) Pair copper bracelets with ends; [D] (3) Copper finger ring with flat bezel; [E] (4) Sard scaraboid incised; [F] (5) Carnelian scaraboid engraved; [G] (6) 2 carnelian & one green glazed ball beads; [H-I] (7) 2 slender copper pins with the ends turned over (or point of one pin broken). | |
16286F | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-G] Group from one grave: [A] (1) Small green glazed bottle, Type LXXXVIII; [B-C] (2) Pair copper bracelets with ends; [D] (3) Copper finger ring with flat bezel; [E] (4) Sard scaraboid incised; [F] (5) Carnelian scaraboid engraved; [G] (6) 2 carnelian & one green glazed ball beads; [H-I] (7) 2 slender copper pins with the ends turned over (or point of one pin broken). | |
16286E | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-G] Group from one grave: [A] (1) Small green glazed bottle, Type LXXXVIII; [B-C] (2) Pair copper bracelets with ends; [D] (3) Copper finger ring with flat bezel; [E] (4) Sard scaraboid incised; [F] (5) Carnelian scaraboid engraved; [G] (6) 2 carnelian & one green glazed ball beads; [H-I] (7) 2 slender copper pins with the ends turned over (or point of one pin broken). | |
16286D | (none) | 1931,1010.235 | (none) | [A-G] Group from one grave: [A] (1) Small green glazed bottle, Type LXXXVIII; [B-C] (2) Pair copper bracelets with ends; [D] (3) Copper finger ring with flat bezel; [E] (4) Sard scaraboid incised; [F] (5) Carnelian scaraboid engraved; [G] (6) 2 carnelian & one green glazed ball beads; [H-I] (7) 2 slender copper pins with the ends turned over (or point of one pin broken). | |
16286B | 31-43-511A | (none) | (none) | [A-G] Group from one grave: [A] (1) Small green glazed bottle, Type LXXXVIII; [B-C] (2) Pair copper bracelets with ends; [D] (3) Copper finger ring with flat bezel; [E] (4) Sard scaraboid incised; [F] (5) Carnelian scaraboid engraved; [G] (6) 2 carnelian & one green glazed ball beads; [H-I] (7) 2 slender copper pins with the ends turned over (or point of one pin broken). | |
16286A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-G] Group from one grave: [A] (1) Small green glazed bottle, Type LXXXVIII; [B-C] (2) Pair copper bracelets with ends; [D] (3) Copper finger ring with flat bezel; [E] (4) Sard scaraboid incised; [F] (5) Carnelian scaraboid engraved; [G] (6) 2 carnelian & one green glazed ball beads; [H-I] (7) 2 slender copper pins with the ends turned over (or point of one pin broken). | |
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. | |
16219B | 31-43-165A | (none) | (none) | [A] Fibula, bronze. Slender type. Pin broken: with it [B] 11 beads of carnelian, lapis, agate, band sard. [drawing 1:1] | |
16219A | 31-43-165B | (none) | (none) | [A] Fibula, bronze. Slender type. Pin broken: with it [B] 11 beads of carnelian, lapis, agate, band sard. [drawing 1:1] | |
16218 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stamp seal. Chalcedony. Facetted conoid. Below: an adorant before an altar. Persian [drawing 1:1] | |
16217C | (none) | 1931,1010.226 | (none) | Beads: (A) small gold lunate earring. (B) Glazed frit scaraboid; (C) A few beads, carnelian, lapis glaze, mixed shapes. Persian period. | |
16217B | (none) | 1931,1010.226 | (none) | Beads: (A) small gold lunate earring. (B) Glazed frit scaraboid; (C) A few beads, carnelian, lapis glaze, mixed shapes. Persian period. | |
16217A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads: (A) small gold lunate earring. (B) Glazed frit scaraboid; (C) A few beads, carnelian, lapis glaze, mixed shapes. Persian period. | |
16214 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bowl, miniature limestone. With a solid knob projection (broken), and decoration of rosette on base & godroons on sides. [drawing] | |
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. | |
16211 | 31-43-1 | (none) | (none) | Stamp seal. Pink limestone. In the form of a recumbent calf; on the flat back a rough design of 2 animals done with drill-holes and engraved lines. This is an early Sumerian piece which is found ina Persian period grave, and must have been an antiquity. [drawing 1:1] | |
16210 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Scaraboid seal. Dark steatite. Design thus. [drawing 1:1] |
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Media | Media Title | Title | Label | Author | Omeka Label |
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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.