Woolley's Field Note Cards | Woolley's Field Note Cards

Omeka ID:	845

Transcription:	NNCF Grave SW 2 SW2 depth 200 Broken grave (?) : only one clay pot ht 027 rim 011 base 008 [drawing (artifact: pot)] w. a small saucer on - top o it forming a lid. diam 011 base 003 and below this a few scattered bones including an arm bone on which a bracelet o carnelian [?] beads & 1 [?] [?conical?] amethyst, 1 chalcedony [?] ([?]) & agate [?oval?], & [?simple?] cylinder seal, shell, w eagle. U.18111 [drawing (artifact: pot)] Near this was half a terracotta figurine o a bearded god U.18134 also with - bones, cylinder o green glaze l 0028

U Number	Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)	Museum Number (BM Registration Number)	Museum Number (UPM B-number)	Description (Catalog Card)
18111A	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A] Beads. Carnelian rings: amethyst double conoids, agate date-shaped and flat oval; blue paste date shaped; agate cylindrical; oval domical agate, large shell cylinder with roughly engraved winged gryphon? And minute carnelian balls, also [B] cylinder seal, glazed frit; a scorpion and a winged gryphon. Also fragments of a [C] copper fibula, bow type.
18111B	32-40-332	(none)	(none)	[A] Beads. Carnelian rings: amethyst double conoids, agate date-shaped and flat oval; blue paste date shaped; agate cylindrical; oval domical agate, large shell cylinder with roughly engraved winged gryphon? And minute carnelian balls, also [B] cylinder seal, glazed frit; a scorpion and a winged gryphon. Also fragments of a [C] copper fibula, bow type.
18111C	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A] Beads. Carnelian rings: amethyst double conoids, agate date-shaped and flat oval; blue paste date shaped; agate cylindrical; oval domical agate, large shell cylinder with roughly engraved winged gryphon? And minute carnelian balls, also [B] cylinder seal, glazed frit; a scorpion and a winged gryphon. Also fragments of a [C] copper fibula, bow type.
18134	(none)	1932,1008.249	(none)	Terracotta figurine of a bearded man. Wearing the Persian cap and holding his hands one above the other before his breast. Upper part only, body from waist downwards missing.

Location	Context Title	Context Description	Description (Modern)
	NNCF	This area lies beyond (north/northwest of) Nebuchadnezzar's corner fort (NCF) at the west corner of the temenos wall. In seasons 10 and 11 the area was somewhat systematically excavated, initially creating a shallow trench from the northwest terrace and temenos wall almost to the city wall some 100 meters away. According to the 1932 reports, it was "enlarged into a regular excavation covering the area of a number of houses," and this expansion was continued in season 11. Excavations were taken through Persian (mostly surface) level down only a small depth to relatively well preserved house remains of the late Kassite and Neo-Babylonian periods. Many of the houses had graves under their floors. Woolley did not map or record the houses or graves, saying in his Antiquaries Journal report for 1932 (p.390): "They produced no objects of importance, but the graves did yield a certain number of glazed vases, beads and seals." Publication does not do justice to the extent of this excavation area. Only XNCF, a smaller excavation of domestic space along the NW temenos is published in UE8 and that in only a few paragraphs.	(none)