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

Omeka ID:	863

Transcription:	NNCF SW At 100 below surface tr was, extending over a pretty wide area, a [?broad belt of?] black + grey ahes + burnt earth : in [?some?] places this ran down into a shallow pocket + - deposit o burnt earth above - ash was unusually thick. In this pocket were found 1) a mug o dark steatite ht 0105 diam 006 w loop handle + 2 holes in rim as if for a lid U. 18116 2) a shale object, prob. a handle, decorated w lines + rosettes U. 18117 3) a small clay vase apparently thus but broken + imperfect [drawing (artifact:pot)] 4) dark steatite cup w reliefs o 5 oxen. U. 18118 All were just at - bottom o - general burnt level wch reached up to - walls (mud brick) o a room. 5) a rectangular plaque of dark steatite plain U 18119

U Number	Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)	Museum Number (BM Registration Number)	Museum Number (UPM B-number)	Description (Catalog Card)
18116	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone mug. Mottled. Brown steatite with handle, and 2 holes below the rim as if to attach a lid. Intact. Heavy and not well-shaped. [drawing]
18117	32-40-140	(none)	(none)	Stone object. Grey steatite (?). Rather fiddle shaped, flat, the face decorated with incised rosettes and concentric circles, the sides with guilloches, the back unfinished -- two concentric circles and an attempt to connect them with a guilloche faintly scratched. On the top originally rose minute figures delicately carved in the round of a man and two bulls: of them only the feet and hooves are left.
18118	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone bowl. Very dark steatite. Decorated on the outside with a procession of 5 bulls standing with the bodies in profile and the head turned outwards: bodies in fairly high relief, heads in the round. Over the back of each animal an ear of barley. Very fine work. A chip out of the (plain) rim and a larger break which has taken off the head of one of the balls = otherwise in perfect condition, straight-sided bowl.
18119	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone plaque. Rectangular, of very dark steatite. Plain.

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)