Temenos Wall | TW

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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)
7680	(none)	(none)	B16893	Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Obliterated. Scene of worship. Votary led by the hands by minor deity towards seated presiding deity.
639	(none)	(none)	B15392	Clay jar. Reddish clay with drab engobbage. Wheelmade. Broken. [below] Type LII. RC.227. [circled] not p.
682	(none)	(none)	B15383	Clay cup. Type LIV =P76b [typology]. Grave not P series.
656	(none)	(none)	B15196	Terracotta relief of a lion probably only the core, moulded and intended to be covered over with a slip in which the finer detail was rendered. [drawing]
645	(none)	(none)	B15191	Terracotta figurine (fr. of) moulded. Seated on a chair, a female figure wearing a dress from neck to ankles + with full sleeves. The bodice treated in narrow pleats, the skirt in 5 flounces of close pleating, border of smocking (?) round neck. Hands clasped in front of body, head missing. The chair +drapery make a solid front: behind project two stumps to make the relief stand up. [drawing]
687	(none)	(none)	B14997	Terracotta relief. In greenish clay. A kneeling woman (headless) suckling a child.[drawing 1:1]
646	(none)	(none)	B14996	Terracotta figurine. moulded. fr. of. Complete from waist upwards, female figure, nude, hands clasped below breasts. 2 broad necklaces, hair waved heavily over ears but above covered with linen(?) headdress forming broad band over brow and bow-like loops behind. unusually fine +detailed work.
216	(none)	1923,1110.102	(none)	Terracotta relief. [drawing 1:1]
440	(none)	(none)	(none)	Fragment of large account tablet of Sumerian period.
445	(none)	(none)	(none)	Fragment of cone. Ends of 13 lines. Unidentified. Placed in IN/No. 7
506	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay saucer. Drab clay. Wheelmade. Kassite [Below]. Type LVI.
553	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay pot. Drab clay. Wheelmade, broken. Type VIII, but with hollow base and with traces of a spout.
554	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay cup. Drab clay, wheelmade, broken. Type XIII.
555	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay cup. Drab clay, wheel-made, broken. Type XIII.
556	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay saucer. Greenish clay, wheelmade, broken. Type XLIV.
561	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay saucer. Red clay with drab engobbage. Wheelmade, broken. (Below) Type XLV.
603	(none)	1923,1110.113	(none)	Terracotta relief. Fragment of head of bearded god wearing horned crown: behind, rough, with a hole for affixing it to a background. [drawing 1:1]
606	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Very much worn: defaced remains of 3 standing figures.
607	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads of frit originally blue glazed, the glaze wholly perished. 15 spheroids and 4 bugles.
608	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay figurine. Lower part only of flat wide-hipped Astarte figure. [below] Photo 69. [drawing 1:2]
609	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay wheel. Hub projects on both sides + has indented holes round it: edge of rim scallopped. [inserted] (N.B. scallops are bigger than drawn here) [drawing]
610	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay antefix roughly moulded in greenish drab clay; fragment only: petal pattern in relief. [drawing]
618	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay vase. Reddish-drab clay and drab engobbage. Wheelmade. Top missing. [below] Type XLIV =RC.72, =L106b [circled] Not p
621	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay vase - top of. Greenish clay. wheelmade. [below] Type XLIX. Very wide example. [circled] Not p.
622	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay vase. Greenish clay. Wheelmade. Base missing. [below] Type XLIX. [circled] Not p.

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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)