17882.1 | 32-40-243
| Description (Catalog Card): | [.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.2 |
| Find Context (Catalog Card): | Ziggurat NW 1931. Nebuchadnezzar Corner Fort Site. On the floor of Room 7. Level III. |
| Material (Catalog Card): | Shell3 |
| Material (Catalog Card): | Marble3 |
| Material (Catalog Card): | Quartzite3 |
| Material (Catalog Card): | Haematite3 |
| Material (Catalog Card): | Steatite3 |
| Material (Catalog Card): | Lapis lazuli3 |
| Material (Catalog Card): | Paste3 |
| Material (Catalog Card): | Agate3 |
| Material (Catalog Card): | Carnelian3 |
| U Number: | 17882.11 |
| Object Type: | Dress and Personal Ornaments >> Miscellaneous Pieces >> Beads |
| Museum: | University of Pennsylvania Museum |
| Season Number: | 10: 1931-1932 |
| Description (Modern): | Paste lentoid, ring, ball, barrel, bugle beads. |
| Material: | Inorganic Remains >> Glass and Related Material >> Glass Paste |
| Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number): | 32-40-243 |
| [1] U number subdivided because object is conceptualized as one object, but may be in different museums. |
| [2] Woolley's description |
| [3] Material as described by Woolley |
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| Location | Context Title | Context Description | Description (Modern) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nebuchadnezzar Corner Fort | NCF | The excavation area abbreviation NCF refers to the Nebuchadnezzar Corner Fort excavated in seasons 10 and 11. This building was located at the west corner of the temenos where it meets the ziggurat terrace and turns to the south. Publication UE9 refers to this specific structure as the West Corner Fort, built by Nebuchadnezzar at the corner of his temenos wall. An earlier fortification had been uncovered in season 3, which Woolley called the Bastion of Warad Sin. This structure sits at the north corner of the ziggurat terrace, approximately mid-way along the northwest temenos wall and may have functioned as a kind of sally port gate. It was sometimes called the north corner fort in early seasons but artifacts were not catalogued with this abbreviation in those seasons. Any artifacts from the Warad Sin building were likely catalogued instead with the abbreviation PDW. Nebuchadnezzar's Corner Fort may also have been defensive, but it contained in its later phase a large mixing basin filled with bitumen. In the time of Nabonidus it may well have been in use in repairing the ziggurat. Woolley dug beneath the Nebuchadnezzar Corner Fort, still using the abbreviation NCF, and uncovered what he believed was a temple or shrine. | (none) |
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