Context Title: Cemetery X     
Context Name (Excavation): X; Cemetery X     
Context Name (Publication): XNCF     
Context Description: Season 1 catalog cards contain the context location Cemetery X referring to late period (Persian and Neo-Babylonian) graves discovered along (or just northwest of) the northwest temenos wall. Originally believed to be a late period cemetery (along with cemeteries Y and Z nearby), it was eventually found that the graves lying near the surface here were originally located beneath the floors of domestic space that had almost completely denuded. Contextual information from later seasons indicate this area of houses and graves with the abbreviation XNCF, meaning northeast of the Nebuchadnezzar Corner Fort. Some of the material in this later explored area is as early as the Kassite period.     

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Objects: Cemetery X Export: JSON - XML - CSV

Object U Number Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) Museum Number (BM Registration Number) Museum Number (UPM B-number) Description (Catalog Card)
841B (none) (none) (none) Bronze bracelets pair of. Of round fluted bronze wire, the ends flattened out and superficially engraved. [drawing 1:1]
1174 (none) 1924,0920.150 (none) Clay model stool. red clay Having on all four sides roughly incised saltire in rectangle. [drawing 1:1] Height M. 0.028 length of sides M. 0.032
1445A (none) (none) (none) (none)
696 (none) (none) (none) Beads (re-strung) Large beads of mixed irregular shapes in carnelian, agate, lapis, malachite, pebble, granite, etc. very ugly, 28 in all.
800 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Carnelian 12; amethyst 11; crystal 1; restrung approximately in the original order. Bracelet.
663B (none) (none) (none) Beads. Carnelian, with a few bugles + other shaped of paste, crystal, + lapis strung up in 2 strings. A Carnelian. B Mixed.
663A (none) (none) B15260 Beads. Carnelian, with a few bugles +other shaped of paste, crystal, + lapis strung up in 2 strings. A Carnelian. B Mixed.
803 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Cylinder-shaped and bugle, the cylinder with incised criss-cross patterns: all originally of blue glaze now decayed and blanched, on frit.
799 (none) (none) (none) Beads. of (crossed out word) carnelian and amethyst, with lunar pendant of agate. Restrung approximately in original order. Carnelian, 58; amethyst, 17; 1 pebble; 1 lapis paste; 1 agate pendant.
695 (none) (none) B15259 Beads. Small string of little glass and paste beads, globular, with two or three larger ditto, and 6 miniature Puzuzu heads in green-glazed frit and (1) in lapis paste, the heads 5mm high.
848 (none) (none) (none) Blue glaze bottle. Glaze partly faded. Two small loop handles. Type LXXXV = P.211
674 (none) (none) (none) Bone inlay. A quantity of pieces, square rosettes, etc, clearly from a box of which the wood has wholly perished.
664 (none) (none) (none) Bronze + iron. Rings + anklets a quantity of, mostly broken + all in very bad condition.
801 (none) 1923,1110.172 (none) Bronze fibula. Pin missing. Regular Persian period type. [drawing 1:1]
697 (none) 1923,1110.142 (none) Bronze situla. [drawing]
802 (none) 1923,1110.81 (none) Clay bowl (broken) of egg-shell ware in fine light red clay. Hemispherical, round bottomed. Type XCV. =new type 3.a
851 (none) (none) (none) Clay bowl. Drab clay, wheelmade. Type XLIII. = new P.21a
761 (none) (none) (none) Clay jar. Brownish - drab clay. Wheelmade, broken. Type L, but with a rim instead of an unbroken contour. Type 761 =P.78 [drawing]
762 (none) (none) (none) Clay jar. Drab clay, wheelmade. Type LXIII. =P.73
794 (none) 1923,1110.74 (none) Clay pot of creamy white clay finely finished. Flat base. Same type as U.793. Type LXXXIII =P.135
793 (none) (none) B15387 Clay pot of creamy white ware, finely finished. Flat base. Type LXXXIII =P.135 [drawing]
660 (none) (none) (none) Clay pot. Drab clay, wheelmade. [below] Type LXIX but the foot is less distinct + the neck has a New Bab. look (cf. Type LVII). The shoulder has "Persian" wheelmarkings. [circled] P.88
769 (none) (none) (none) Clay pot. Drab clay. Wheelmade. Type LXIX =P.88
768 (none) (none) B15388 Clay pot. Drab clay. Wheelmade. Type LXIX, as far as the upper part goes, but it narrows down to the base more rapidly. =P.181
764 (none) (none) (none) Clay pot. Drab clay. Wheelmade. Type LXVI =P.209
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Media: Cemetery X Export: JSON - XML - CSV

Media Media Title Title Label Author Omeka Label
Field Photographs Field Photographs GN0074 GN0074 (none)
Field Photographs Field Photographs GN0075 GN0075 (none)
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)
Ur Excavations VIII; The Kassite Period and the period of the Assyrian Kings Ur Excavations VIII; The Kassite Period and the period of the Assyrian Kings 1965 Woolley, Leonard (none)
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