Woolley's Field Note Cards | Woolley's Field Note Cards

Omeka ID:	846

Transcription:	SW NNCF Grave SW 5 Two bowls mouth to mouth, - larger w diam 070 ht 050, - second ht 050 diam 050 180 below the surface, 120 below [?found?] o - walls o - highest level. Bones, but nothing else [drawing (artifact) labeled: ^ 017 Ë < 012 >] In the room NE o t w grave SW 5 was found w - surface a [?brick?] fragment carved thus

Location	Context Title	Context Description	Description (Modern)
	NNCF	This area lies beyond (north/northwest of) Nebuchadnezzar's corner fort (NCF) at the west corner of the temenos wall. In seasons 10 and 11 the area was somewhat systematically excavated, initially creating a shallow trench from the northwest terrace and temenos wall almost to the city wall some 100 meters away. According to the 1932 reports, it was "enlarged into a regular excavation covering the area of a number of houses," and this expansion was continued in season 11. Excavations were taken through Persian (mostly surface) level down only a small depth to relatively well preserved house remains of the late Kassite and Neo-Babylonian periods. Many of the houses had graves under their floors. Woolley did not map or record the houses or graves, saying in his Antiquaries Journal report for 1932 (p.390): "They produced no objects of importance, but the graves did yield a certain number of glazed vases, beads and seals." Publication does not do justice to the extent of this excavation area. Only XNCF, a smaller excavation of domestic space along the NW temenos is published in UE8 and that in only a few paragraphs.	(none)