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)
673E (none) (none) (none) [A-F] 6 bronze anklets. Plain ends.
673F (none) (none) (none) [A-F] 6 bronze anklets. Plain ends.
674 (none) (none) (none) Bone inlay. A quantity of pieces, square rosettes, etc, clearly from a box of which the wood has wholly perished.
675 (none) (none) (none) Iron arrowhead. In bad condition. [drawing 1:1]
676A (none) (none) (none) Set of beads. (A) Large in very light-colored carnelian? =P252 [drawing] (B) String of mixed beads some paste and glass (most of the last broken) and shell center-pieces, with dotted ornament. =P52 [drawing 1:1]
676B (none) (none) (none) Set of beads. (A) Large in very light-colored carnelian? =P252 [drawing] (B) String of mixed beads some paste and glass (most of the last broken) and shell center-pieces, with dotted ornament. =P52 [drawing 1:1]
694 (none) (none) (none) Clay vase. Creamy drab ware. Type LXXII =RC.170 call this a variant new type P.116
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.
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.
697 (none) 1923,1110.142 (none) Bronze situla. [drawing]
698A (none) (none) (none) [A-D] Bronze finger rings. (4) (A fifth was broken and therefore chucked) of flattened bronze.
698B (none) (none) (none) [A-D] Bronze finger rings. (4) (A fifth was broken and therefore chucked) of flattened bronze.
698C (none) (none) (none) [A-D] Bronze finger rings. (4) (A fifth was broken and therefore chucked) of flattened bronze.
698D (none) (none) (none) [A-D] Bronze finger rings. (4) (A fifth was broken and therefore chucked) of flattened bronze.
699 (none) (none) B15233 Pot. Covered with greenish white glaze (broken and mended, bits missing) Type 653 =P.93 [drawing 1:1]
759 (none) (none) (none) Clay. Pot. Drab clay. Wheelmade. Type LVIII =RC.165 =P.199.
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
764 (none) (none) (none) Clay pot. Drab clay. Wheelmade. Type LXVI =P.209
765 (none) (none) (none) Clay pot. Drab clay. Wheelmade. Type LXXV =new (P) 128
766 (none) 1923,1110.78 (none) Clay pot. Drab clay. Wheelmade. Type LXVIII. Not P.
767 (none) (none) B15391 Clay pot. Drab clay. Wheelmade. Type LXVIII, but has a flat bottom. Not P.
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
769 (none) (none) (none) Clay pot. Drab clay. Wheelmade. Type LXIX =P.88
793 (none) (none) B15387 Clay pot of creamy white ware, finely finished. Flat base. Type LXXXIII =P.135 [drawing]

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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