Description (Catalog Card): Incense burner. Clay. [drawing] 1     
Find Context (Catalog Card): NNCF Persian level.     
Material (Catalog Card): Clay3     
Measurement (Catalog Card): H. 100mm, W. 90mm     
U Number: 17946     
Museum: University of Pennsylvania Museum      
Object Type: Tools and Equipment >> Lamps and Incense Burners >> Incense Burners      
Season Number: 10: 1931-1932      
Description (Modern): Cube-shaped incensed burner with square legs and incised decorations on the side. Greenish grey clay. Complete. Broken and repaired.2     
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Clay      
Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number): 32-40-50     
Measurement (Depth): 982     
Measurement (X): 1052     
Measurement (Y): 952     
[1] Woolley's description
[2] Data collected during Penn Museum conservation review of ceramics.
[3] Material as described by Woolley

Locations: 17946 | 32-40-50 Export: JSON - XML - CSV

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)
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Media: 17946 | 32-40-50 Export: JSON - XML - CSV

Media Media Title Title Label Author Omeka Label
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)
Woolley's Catalog Cards Woolley's Catalog Cards Card -- BM ID:194 Box:70 Page:155 Card -- BM ID:194 Box:70 Page:155 (none)
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