TTA

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Context Title:	TTA
Context Name (Excavation):	Trial Trench A
Context Name (Publication):	Royal Cemetery Area
Context Description:	TTA is shorthand for Trial Trench A, one of two exploratory trenches excavated in Woolley's first season at Ur in 1922. This one was about 4 meters wide by about 40 meters long as revealed by an aerial photograph taken at the end of the 1922 season. The trench encountered a few scattered finds of jewelry and materials that led Woolley to suspect they were from a graveyard, but he felt his team of local diggers was not yet ready to excavate such sensitive contexts. Thus, he decided to concentrate on TTB for the first few seasons, according to his various publications. One of the primary reasons for concentrating on TTB initially, however, may have been that Woolley discovered no architecture in TTA but had struck the enunmah building in TTB. Woolley returned to TTA in season 5, when he expanded with new trial trenches and eventually opened up the entire area of the Royal Cemetery. No individual graves are reported in TTA and any that might have been encountered did not receive PG numbers. Those in the following trial trenches expanding TTA (TTE, TTF, TTG) did receive these numbers and gave their abbreviation (PG) to the entire Royal Cemetery area.
Season Number:	01: 1922-1923

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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)
12773	(none)	1928,1010.714	(none)	Brick. Plano-convex.
34E	(none)	1928,1010.107	(none)	Beads in gold, lapis lazuli and carnelian: found loose and restrung as follows (A) Gold ram: small figurine in thin metal, hollow, pierced for threading. Fine work. Photo no. 39 length 0.016 (B) String of lapis and gold beads thus [refers to drawing], graded in size, 43 gold and 45 lapis, and a circular rosette pendant of open work gold. [drawing] Photo no. _ length 085 (C) String of carnelian beads, 40 in all, 2 gold ring terminals, 4 gold pear pendants, 2 carnelian pear pendants on gold, one plate pendant of carnelian with white design on gold. Photo no. 39 length 008 (D) String of 10 gold and 20 lapis nasturtium-seed beads with six lapis pear pendants on gold and one lapis fly amulet. photo no. _ length 0155 (E) String of small lapis beads strung in 2 rows with lapis spacers at ends of 8 gold mulberry(?)-leaf pendants, a triangular gold spacer, one lapis beads bound with gold wire and a triple gold beads (these 2 as a pendant) Photo. No. 39. length 0.165
795	(none)	1923,1110.88	(none)	Glaze pot of drab clay covered with blue-green glaze partly flaked off and partly blanched. Type LXXXVIII =P.182a. [drawing]
670	(none)	1923,1110.87	(none)	Clay pot. Drab clay with blue glaze. 3 rather faint wheel-turned lines round the middle of the pot. Two bored stump-handles. [below] Type LXVII. = [crossed out] RC.236. Photo 79 = P.217
16	(none)	1923,1110.82	(none)	Clay bowl. Pinkish drab clay with creamy engobbage. Wheelmade. Rounded base. Hole drilled through side. Type V.
9	(none)	1923,1110.72	(none)	Clay pot. Fine red clay, wheelmade, with bright hematitic slip. Pointed base. Type I.
90	(none)	1923,1110.71	(none)	Clay pot. Drab clay, wheelmade, with fine creamy engobbage. Type I.
548	(none)	1923,1110.69	(none)	Clay pot. Drab clay, wheelmade. Type XLII.
55	(none)	1923,1110.191	(none)	Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Broken in half and chipped down one side. Scene: 3 figures in a row advancing l[eft]. Found with beads round neck of body in larnax burial.
54	(none)	1923,1110.190	(none)	Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Engraved with scene of worshipper being introduced to a god standing in front of a gate.
53	(none)	1923,1110.170	(none)	Gold mouth piece. Formed of thin gold plate cut to shape as below: [references drawing] The ends of the band pierced for stringing. [drawing]
52	(none)	1923,1110.168	(none)	Gold coil ring. The ends flattened and leaf shaped. [drawing 1:1]
34A	(none)	1923,1110.167	(none)	Beads in gold, lapis lazuli and carnelian: found loose and restrung as follows (A) Gold ram: small figurine in thin metal, hollow, pierced for threading. Fine work. Photo no. 39 length 0.016 (B) String of lapis and gold beads [drawing] thus [refers to drawing], graded in size, 43 gold and 45 lapis, and a circular rosette pendant of open work gold. Photo no. _ length 085 (C) String of carnelian beads, 40 in all, 2 gold ring terminals, 4 gold pear pendants, 2 carnelian pear pendants on gold, one plate pendant of carnelian with white design on gold. Photo no. 39 length 008 (D) String of 10 gold and 20 lapis nasturtium-seed beads with six lapis pear pendants on gold and one lapis fly amulet. photo no. _ length 0155 (E) String of small lapis beads strung in 2 rows with lapis spacers at ends of 8 gold mulberry(?)-leaf pendants, a triangular gold spacer, one lapis beads bound with gold wire and a triple gold beads (these 2 as a pendant) Photo. No. 39. length 0.165
2	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay cone. Base of. Inscribed. [Annotated] King's name broken off. Placed in IN/No. 2 Ur Texts I: R.I.135
3	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay tablet. Fr. of. Inscribed [Annotated] Sumerian account tablet. Date broken. Placed in IN/No.2
4	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay cone. Upper part. Inscribed. [Annotated] Libit-Ishtar. Duplicate of SAKI 204/3 [Annotated] Duplicates - 74. Sumerian inscription of Libit-Ishtar recording of his building of E-gipar, the residence of the high priest in Ur. Inscr. duplicate of clay, Miscell. Inscr. no. 27. Ur TextsI: R.1.106. Placed in IN/No.5
5	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone bowl. Very coarse grey steatite (?) edges badly chipped.
6	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay pot. of Reddish clay with creamy white engobbage. Wheelmade. Type III.
7	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay pot. Wheelmade. Creamy pink clay worked onto surface to creamy white engobbage. Round base. Type II.
8	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay pot. Rough red brick-clay, wheelmade. Type VII.
10	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay pot. Red clay, fine, wheelmade, with creamy white engobbage partly flared to red. Pointed base. Type I (v.).
11	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay pot. Drab clay. Fine, wheelmade, with red hematite slip. Pointed base. Type I.
12A	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay pot. Coarse yellow-drab clay, wheelmade, round base. Broken. Type III (v.)
13	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay vase. Ampulla type. Fine red clay, natural surface. Wheelmade. Type IV.
14	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay pot. Drab clay, wheelmade, broken. Type VIII.