Omeka ID: 978     
Transcription:

XNCF Zig. NW 1931

To - NE o - fort tr was against - Neb. T.W. a strip o mud brick pavement 100 wide, - top o it 015 above - bottoms o - niches in - wall. Beyond this was a trough-like gap 015 wide, then a double line o mud bricks, 2 courses deep, + beyond that + flush w them a clay floor 020 thikc. This had been broken through by - drains [?] o - Persian period but [?] be traced [?] - top o - terrace wall. Below it was a layer o rubbish + ashes 025 thick, + then at 045 from - Neb. floor surface came a brick pavement.

On - SE+SW this pavement ran up to a mud brick wall o - worst quality, preserved only for 1 course above floor level : on - NW it ran up to a heavy mud brick wall wch continued - wall [?] II [?Persian?] A wch cut off - NW part o Level II. - SE wall ran along - back o Warad Sin's kisu, - front o wch was hidden below - pavement : - width o - walls w not be [?].

On - Neb. level just to - NW o - door to - intramural chamber o TW tr was a reinforcement o - clay floor, an area [blank] x [blank] [?] enclosed by mud bricks set on edge (cf. site AH, + - NE gate o TW.

     
Omeka Label: Ur_Notes_v2_p158     
BM Volume: 2     
BM Page Number: 153     
Media Title: Woolley's Field Note Cards     
Page Number: 158     
Volume: v2     
BM Archive Number: 194     
BM Description: XNCF-Ziggurat-NW-1931     
Omeka Tags: TW, XNCF     
Omeka Type: 6     

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Location Context Title Context Description Description (Modern)
XNCF This area lies along the edge of northwest temenos wall east of the Nebuchadnezzar Corner Fort (NCF). It was partly explored in season 1 when late graves were found in what at that time were called Cemeteries X, Y, and Z. In seasons 10 and 11 the larger area of late domestic space, or mostly that to the northwest, was more systematically excavated as area NNCF and the 'cemeteries' were found to be graves beneath heavily deteriorated late houses. Publication of area XNCF in UE8 discusses the remains of domestic buildings found east of NCF and Warad Sin's Bastion along the temenos wall and the northern extent of the Nanna Courtyard (PD). XNCF as a whole, however, appears to have included the long range of Kassite magazines extending under and somewhat beyond the Neo-Babylonian temenos wall. These were broken into rows A, B, and C, and field catalogue cards referring to XNCF often record one of these letters and a room number in the contextual notes. Thus XNCF contained public buildings between the ziggurat terrace and the temenos wall (including a clear reference to the Kuriglazu addition to the Warad Sin Bastion), and domestic buildings and burials somewhat beyond (north of) the northwest temenos wall. (none)
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