Temenos Wall | TW

General

Context Title:	Temenos Wall \| TW
Context Name (Excavation):	TW
Context Name (Publication):	Temenos Wall
Context Description:	The excavation area abbreviation TW stands for Temenos Wall, a wall that surrounded the ziggurat terrace and its extended sacred space in the northern central portion of the city of Ur through much of its history. The wall may have begun in the Early Dynastic period, as Woolley found some indication of what he believed to be its earliest foundation. There was clearly an Ur III period version that ran south of the giparu and then further southeast to encompass the ehursag. This was the general line of the wall through the Isin-Larsa/Old Babylonian and into the Kassite period, though the Kassites made some changes in the northern portion. Finally, the Neo-Babylonians changed the wall greatly, expanding the area encompassed to the north and south and adding several gateways. The foundations of this later, quite massive, wall often destroyed earlier remains. Woolley explored parts of the temenos wall in many seasons and frequently used the TW abbreviation for the wall in any of its building periods. Other excavation area abbreviations include parts of the temenos, particularly NCF, PDW and BC. The temenos wall built by Urnamma was 6 meters thick and built of mud brick with a baked brick facing. Most of the baked brick had been removed, probably for later building. The Nebuchadnezzar and Nabonidus temenos wall had chambers within it and sported six gates into the temenos area. This area was known as e-gish-nu-gal (Woolley read this e-gish-shir-gal). At least one later interpretation conflates TW with the phrase Town Wall, but the wall surrounding Ur was always referred to as the city wall, (CLW).
Season Number:	01: 1922-1923
Season Number:	03: 1924-1925
Season Number:	05: 1926-1927
Season Number:	11: 1932-1933
Season Number:	12: 1933-1934

Files

General

UE 9 Temenos of UR Neobab.pdf - Download

UE 6 Temenos of Ur UIII.pdf - Download

UE 8 Temenos of Ur Kurigalzu.pdf - Download

UE 9 Bursin gateway of temenos.pdf - Download

UE 4 Temenos.pdf - Download

UE 8 NW Wall of the Temenos Kurigalzu 2.pdf - Download

UE 8 NW wall of the Temenos Sinbalatsuiqbi.pdf - Download

UE 8 NW wall of the Temenos Kassite.pdf - Download

UE 7 Temenos Area Larsa.pdf - Download

excavation_area_TW.jpg - Download

Objects: Temenos Wall | TW Export: JSON - XML - CSV

U Number	Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)	Museum Number (BM Registration Number)	Museum Number (UPM B-number)	Description (Catalog Card)
17873H	32-40-67	(none)	(none)	Model bricks. Miniatures in baked clay of plano-convex bricks. Two have crescent incised on the side some have marks. Some of the bricks are not plano-convex but flat-topped with a long curved frog. L. 50mm, W. 30mm, H. 12mm [unclear what these measurements reference]. Others are not brick-shaped but oval and round on top with long frog. Others are straight on one side and curved on the other and rise on the top with a double curve frog with these are what maybe mixing bowls, square or circular, hollow and containing a lump of bitumen mixed with earth. [drawing]
17873I	32-40-68	(none)	(none)	Model bricks. Miniatures in baked clay of plano-convex bricks. Two have crescent incised on the side some have marks. Some of the bricks are not plano-convex but flat-topped with a long curved frog. L. 50mm, W. 30mm, H. 12mm [unclear what these measurements reference]. Others are not brick-shaped but oval and round on top with long frog. Others are straight on one side and curved on the other and rise on the top with a double curve frog with these are what maybe mixing bowls, square or circular, hollow and containing a lump of bitumen mixed with earth. [drawing]
17882.2	32-40-244	(none)	(none)	[.1-.2] Beads a small mixed collection of agate, carnelian, shell, marble, green quartzite (?), hematite and steatite and lapis . Paste = lentoids, rings, balls, barrels, bugles and one chisel shaped head.
17892B	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cone fragment. Unidentified. Mentions religion - their god.
8840H	(none)	(none)	(none)	Tablet. In a box, not marked, and not fully examined, the following leftover unbaked, at end of season. (A)[A and H] 2 considerable fragments. (B)[B and I-L] 5 small tablets. (C) seal impression (interesting). (D) Contract with many fragments of its envelope, with seal impressions. also baked. (E) Fragment containing some proper names. (F) Half a business note also. (G) corner of archaic tablet.
8840I	(none)	(none)	(none)	Tablet. In a box, not marked, and not fully examined, the following leftover unbaked, at end of season. (A)[A and H] 2 considerable fragments. (B)[B and I-L] 5 small tablets. (C) seal impression (interesting). (D) Contract with many fragments of its envelope, with seal impressions. also baked. (E) Fragment containing some proper names. (F) Half a business note also. (G) corner of archaic tablet.
8840J	(none)	(none)	(none)	Tablet. In a box, not marked, and not fully examined, the following leftover unbaked, at end of season. (A)[A and H] 2 considerable fragments. (B)[B and I-L] 5 small tablets. (C) seal impression (interesting). (D) Contract with many fragments of its envelope, with seal impressions. also baked. (E) Fragment containing some proper names. (F) Half a business note also. (G) corner of archaic tablet.
8840K	(none)	(none)	(none)	Tablet. In a box, not marked, and not fully examined, the following leftover unbaked, at end of season. (A)[A and H] 2 considerable fragments. (B)[B and I-L] 5 small tablets. (C) seal impression (interesting). (D) Contract with many fragments of its envelope, with seal impressions. also baked. (E) Fragment containing some proper names. (F) Half a business note also. (G) corner of archaic tablet.
8840L	(none)	(none)	(none)	Tablet. In a box, not marked, and not fully examined, the following leftover unbaked, at end of season. (A)[A and H] 2 considerable fragments. (B)[B and I-L] 5 small tablets. (C) seal impression (interesting). (D) Contract with many fragments of its envelope, with seal impressions. also baked. (E) Fragment containing some proper names. (F) Half a business note also. (G) corner of archaic tablet.
942	(none)	(none)	(none)	(none)
955	(none)	(none)	(none)	(none)
958	(none)	(none)	(none)	(none)
943A	(none)	(none)	(none)	(none)
943B	(none)	(none)	(none)	(none)
943C	(none)	(none)	(none)	(none)
943D	(none)	(none)	(none)	(none)
943E	(none)	(none)	(none)	(none)
943F	(none)	(none)	(none)	(none)
943G	(none)	(none)	(none)	(none)
943H	(none)	(none)	(none)	(none)
943I	(none)	(none)	(none)	(none)
943J	(none)	(none)	(none)	(none)
943K	(none)	(none)	(none)	(none)
943L	(none)	(none)	(none)	(none)
943M	(none)	(none)	(none)	(none)

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Media: Temenos Wall | TW Export: JSON - XML - CSV

Media Title	Title	Label	Author	Omeka Label
Ur Excavations V: The Ziggurat and its Surroundings	Ur Excavations V: The Ziggurat and its Surroundings	1939	Woolley Leonard	(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)