17962 | 1932,1008.281
| Technique: | Decoration >> Subtraction >> Incised 1 |
| Description (Catalog Card): | Fragment of incense burner. Clay. [drawing 1:1]2 |
| Find Context (Catalog Card): | NNCF Houses |
| Material (Catalog Card): | Clay3 |
| U Number: | 17962 |
| Museum: | British Museum |
| Season Number: | 10: 1931-1932 |
| Object Type: | Tools and Equipment >> Lamps and Incense Burners >> Incense Burners 1 |
| Description (Modern): | Fired clay incense burner; hand-modelled; cube shaped with square cavity for burning incense; supported on four feet, now partially broken; incised lines and applied protrusions decorate the sides; one side of burner is fragmented and missing.1 |
| Material: | Inorganic Remains >> Clay >> Fired 1 |
| Museum Number (BM Big Number): | 123245 |
| Museum Number (BM Registration Number): | 1932,1008.2811 |
| Measurement (Weight): | 5221 |
| Measurement (Height): | 711 |
| Measurement (Width): | 921 |
| Measurement (Depth): | 971 |
| [1] Data collected by British Museum research team. |
| [2] Woolley's description |
| [3] Material as described by Woolley |
| 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) |
- 1 Location
| 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:171 | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:70 Page:171 | (none) |
- 2 Media