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)
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
74	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay cone. Inscribed. Upper part. Lower part broken off in antiquity. [Annotated] Duplicate of U.4. [Annotated] Ur Texts I: R.1.106 [Annotated] Placed in IN/No.5.
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
546	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay cup. Reddish-drab clay. Wheelmade, broken. Type XLI.
48	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay cylinder pipe. Pierced, possibly a small drain: or a lamp protector(?) [drawing 1:4(?)]
611	(none)	(none)	B15198	Clay figurine of a bear. Forepart only. Reddish clay with creamy drab surface. [drawing]
100	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay figurine, fr. of [drawing 1:1]
65	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay figurine. Lower part missing. Moulded. [drawing 1:1]
68	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay figurine. Snowman technique. Horseman (?) with traces on back of a cloak or shield decorated with circles. [drawing]
148	(none)	(none)	B15382	Clay jar. of Yellowish clay, wheelmade, the surface covered with matte haematitic wash. Type XX.
104	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay jar. Wheelmade, of pinkish drab clay with creamy white engobbage. Type XV.
105	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay jar. Wheelmade. Pinkish clay with creamy white engobbage. Type XIV
66	(none)	(none)	B15183	Clay plaque. Fr. of, With figure of god moulded in relief. [drawing 1:1] [Annotated] Phil
453	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay pot (broken). Reddish clay with drab engobbage. Type XXIX.
454A	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay pot . Reddish drab clay with a fine greenish-drab engobbage. Wheelmade. Type XIX.
12	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay Pot Coarse yellow-drab clay, wheelmade, round base. broken. Type III (v.)
85	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay pot. Coarse drab clay, clumsy wheelmade ware. Most of rim missing. Type XXXV.
45	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay pot. Coarse drab clay. Type XXXIII.
50	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay pot. Coarse drab ware. Type XXIII.
12A	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay pot. Coarse yellow-drab clay, wheelmade, round base. Broken. Type III (v.)
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
455	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay pot. Drab clay with fine greenish drab engobbage, wheelmade: top broken. Type XIX
14	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay pot. Drab clay, wheelmade, broken. Type VIII.
91	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay pot. Drab clay, wheelmade, with fine cramy white engobbage. Most of rim missing. Type I.
90	(none)	1923,1110.71	(none)	Clay pot. Drab clay, wheelmade, with fine creamy engobbage. Type I.