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)
767 (none) (none) B15391 Clay pot. Drab clay. Wheelmade. Type LXVIII, but has a flat bottom. Not P.
766 (none) 1923,1110.78 (none) Clay pot. Drab clay. Wheelmade. Type LXVIII. Not P.
765 (none) (none) (none) Clay pot. Drab clay. Wheelmade. Type LXXV =new (P) 128
694 (none) (none) (none) Clay vase. Creamy drab ware. Type LXXII =RC.170 call this a variant new type P.116
953 (none) (none) (none) Clay Vase. Drab clay with traces of hematite wash. Wheelmade. Two holes for suspension below the rim. The lower trough is only distinct on one side of the vase. Type LXXXIV =P.81
759 (none) (none) (none) Clay. Pot. Drab clay. Wheelmade. Type LVIII =RC.165 =P.199.
1694 (none) 1924,0920.365 (none) Cup. Drab clay (very fine); wheelmade, bell-shaped.
798 (none) (none) B15236 Glaze bottle. Drab clay covered with glaze originally blue, now wholly blanched. Type XCIV =P.198 [drawing]
796 (none) (none) B15395 Glaze jar of creamy white clay covered with glaze originally dark greenish blue, now mostly blanched white. Type XCIII =P.108a [drawing]
795 (none) 1923,1110.88 (none) Glaze pot of drab clay covered with blue-green glaze partly flaked off and partly blanched. Type LXXXVIII =P.182a. [drawing]
852 (none) (none) (none) Glazed bottle. Green glaze faded, over drab clay. Type LX =new P.184
797 (none) (none) B15237 Glazed pilgrim-bottle. The sides marked with concentric circles; glaze originally bright blue, now largely blanched white.Type 762 =P.221
1145 (none) (none) (none) Hemispherical Pot. Drab clay. (Broken in 2) Like U.1114
1144 (none) (none) (none) Hemispherical Pot. Drab clay. Type III [19 written over?] [Type] 235 =P.11 [drawing 2:5]
675 (none) (none) (none) Iron arrowhead. In bad condition. [drawing 1:1]
839 (none) (none) (none) Iron dagger. Broken into 5 pieces, then extreme tip missing, with it an iron object, thus [drawing 1:1] probably end of a scabbard or hilt.
1143 (none) (none) (none) Jar. Light brown clay: wheelmade. Broken at neck. Type 596 =P.159a [drawing 2:5]
1140 (none) (none) (none) Jar. Yellow clay. Type 665 =P.130 [drawing 1:5]
661 (none) (none) (none) Pot of creamy drab clay. Complete. [below] [crossed out]Type LXXIII. 252 = new 122 P. [inserted] Plate 77.
662 (none) (none) B15389 Pot of green ware, complete. On body, mark incised [reference drawing] after baking. [below] Photo. 77.Type LXX = [crossed out] new P. 137. P.91a. [drawing]
699 (none) (none) B15233 Pot. Covered with greenish white glaze (broken and mended, bits missing) Type 653 =P.93 [drawing 1:1]
853 (none) (none) (none) Pot. Red clay, wheelmade. Type LXXVIII. =new P.165
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]
804 (none) (none) (none) Strip of leaf gold. Pierced with 2 holes at each end, by the corners, and 2 holes close together by either edge, at the middle. Probably for sewing on to a leather belt.

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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