Royal Cemetery | PG1932

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Context Title:	Royal Cemetery \| PG1932
Context Name (Excavation):	PG1932; PG32
Context Name (Publication):	Royal Cemetery
Context Description:	In season 10 Woolley had completed the Royal Cemetery volume (UE2) but he continued to expand the Royal Cemetery area and find more graves. Continuing the PG numbers would be confusing since they would not be included in the main publication of the cemetery. Thus, he shifted his numbering to reflect the year in which he was digging, beginning very late in 1931. When January arrived, he shifted his numbers to PG1932. However, he had stopped the normal Private Grave sequence at around number 1850 (some PG/18xx numbers were renamed PG1931 or PG1932 numbers) and 1932 is easily mistaken for an individual grave when it is actually a series of graves from late in the excavations. Even more confusing, Woolley often shortened the 1932 number simply to PG32, which is easily mistaken for PG/32, a grave in Trial Trench E. The general abbreviation PG1932 or PG32 refers to the 1931-1932 Royal Cemetery investigation, revisiting the area along the western side of the Mausoleum of the Ur III kings (area BC). Some of these graves are from the Isin-Larsa/Old Babylonian period and are likely associated with House 30. PG1932 graves were therefore often renamed for publication to LG/xx (Larsa Grave). Objects that were collected from the area but not associated with a particular grave were given the generic PG1932 or PG32 abbreviation. Specific graves were given additional numbers in the sequence PG1932/xx or PG32/xx. The highest number noted in this sequence is PG32/80.

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U Number	Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)	Museum Number (BM Registration Number)	Museum Number (UPM B-number)	Description (Catalog Card)
17850	32-40-333, 32-40-333	(none)	(none)	Cylinder (seal?) unpierced. White limestone with 4 columns of inscription. Two names. NU-UR-KU-BI son of DUG-GA-AN-SA and E-MU-MA-NI-DA son of NU-UR-KU-BI. HC 1931 / 1
17851	(none)	1932,1008.2	(none)	Clay cone. Complete - straight type with no head. Of Libit-Ishtar.
17862	(none)	1932,1008.37	(none)	Fragment of bas-relief or statuette in the round of black steatite. The legs (bare) only survive, against a background of a cloak. The cloak has a beaded hem on the front of a tasselled fold behind. The work is very fine. It has been broken in antiquity and the fracture at the feet is worn smooth: the top fracture is sharp.
17864	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay cone. Headdress type. The tip broken away and the ends of the lines of the inscription damaged. =UR RI#106 (Libit-Ishtar).
17874	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper chopper. Bent over for hafting. [drawing 1:1]
17875	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper bowl. With base ring. Type RC.116. [additional notes on back of catalog card][drawing]
17879	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper object. Egg-shaped and pierced with triangular holes at each end a knob for attachment, the two pierced inverse directions inside is a lump of metal of uncertain shape. [drawing 1:1]
17884	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay cone. Inscribed on stem and base =UR RI#106 (Libit-Ishtar)
17888	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta figurine. nude female with hands clasped below breast fragment only from the waist up, & a poor impression from the mould archaic type with sharp & prominent nose. PHOTO. 2047 vol IV
17900	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Steatite. Door of shrine on back of animal; crescent above table on which things are laid; star.
17901	(none)	(none)	(none)	Pin. Silver. Type No. V. [Type] RC.1 [drawing 1:1]
17902A	(none)	1932,1008.16	(none)	[A-B] Earrings. Gold. Type RC.2. [drawing 1:1]
17902B	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-B] Earrings. Gold. Type RC.2. [drawing 1:1]
17903	(none)	(none)	(none)	Bracelet. Gold. [drawing]
17905	32-40-246	(none)	(none)	Beads. 2 carnelian bugles; 1 carnelian ball; 1 flat ovoid chalcedony; 1 lentoid marbles; 1 paste ball.
17906	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. 4 gold balls; 3 gold ribbed balls; 6 barrel carnelian; 3 lentoid carnelian; 1 flat diamond gold; 5 barrel apatite; 2 agate, rectangualr with vesical section.
17915A	(none)	(none)	(none)	Burial group. (A) Twisted gold hair-ribbon. (B) Tubular gold spiral finger ring. (C) Pair of gold hair-rings, spirally coiled, hollowed lunate ends [C and E]. (D) Necklace of alternating gold and carnelian barrel beads.
17915B	(none)	(none)	(none)	Burial group. (A) Twisted gold hair-ribbon. (B) Tubular gold spiral finger ring. (C) Pair of gold hair-rings, spirally coiled, hollowed lunate ends [C and E]. (D) Necklace of alternating gold and carnelian barrel beads.
17915C	(none)	(none)	(none)	Burial group. (A) Twisted gold hair-ribbon. (B) Tubular gold spiral finger ring. (C) Pair of gold hair-rings, spirally coiled, hollowed lunate ends [C and E]. (D) Necklace of alternating gold and carnelian barrel beads.
17915D	(none)	(none)	(none)	Burial group. (A) Twisted gold hair-ribbon. (B) Tubular gold spiral finger ring. (C) Pair of gold hair-rings, spirally coiled, hollowed lunate ends [C and E]. (D) Necklace of alternating gold and carnelian barrel beads.
17915E	(none)	(none)	(none)	Burial group. (A) Twisted gold hair-ribbon. (B) Tubular gold spiral finger ring. (C) Pair of gold hair-rings, spirally coiled, hollowed lunate ends [C and E]. (D) Necklace of alternating gold and carnelian barrel beads.
17927	(none)	(none)	(none)	Toggle. Bone. [drawing 1:1]
17931	(none)	(none)	(none)	Rattle clay. [drawing 1:1]
18087	32-40-30	(none)	(none)	Terracotta figurine. Hand modelled, snowman technique. Nude female figure standing full face. Fragment, the legs missing. The hands clasped upon breast.
18088	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta figurine. Hand modelled, snowman technique. Nude female figure. Arms, legs and breasts missing.