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      

Objects: TTA Export: JSON - XML - CSV

Object U Number Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) Museum Number (BM Registration Number) Museum Number (UPM B-number) Description (Catalog Card)
17 (none) (none) (none) Clay vase. Light red rather fine clay, natural surface. Wheelmade. Upper part broken. Type XXX.
87 (none) (none) (none) Clay vase. Greenish drab ware, wheelmade, with wheel-turned grooves round shoulder. Type XII.
560 (none) (none) (none) Clay vase. Greenish drab clay, wheelmade. (Below) Type X.
42 (none) (none) (none) Clay vase. Drab clay. Type XXVIII.
13 (none) (none) (none) Clay vase. Ampulla type. Fine red clay, natural surface. Wheelmade. Type IV.
612 (none) (none) (none) Clay tripod stand. For placing in the hearth (? Or in the kiln?) as stand for a pot. [drawing]. [below] Also fragments of 2 similar.
78 (none) (none) (none) Clay tablet. Inscribed. [Annotated] Sumerian list, period Third Dynasty of Ur, date broken, begins MU.EN.NINGAR (Nannar)
26 (none) (none) (none) Clay tablet. In very bad condition. Inscribed [Annotated] illegible. Votive tablet dedicated to a goddess, dNin-a-[drawing of cuneiform], by Lu-dug(ga) for the life of A-annipada. [Annotated] =Al Obeid book Plate 1x Placed in IN/No.2.
27 (none) (none) (none) Clay tablet. Fragment of Inscribed. [Annotated] Placed in IN/No.2.
3 (none) (none) (none) Clay tablet. Fr. of. Inscribed [Annotated] Sumerian account tablet. Date broken. Placed in IN/No.2
31 (none) (none) (none) Clay tablet. Fr. of, in bad condition. Inscribed. [Annotated] Sumerian account tablet, date broken. [Annotated] Placed in IN/No. 2.
102 (none) (none) (none) Clay spool. [drawing 1:1]
557 (none) (none) (none) Clay saucer. Reddish drab clay, wheelmade, broken. Type XXVI, but the base is not so distinct as usual.
44 (none) (none) (none) Clay saucer. Pinkish drab clay. Type XXVI.
47 (none) (none) (none) Clay saucer. Light drab clay. Type XXXIV.
18 (none) (none) (none) Clay saucer. Fr. of. Drab clay with creamy engobbage. Wheelmade. Type IX.
542 (none) (none) (none) Clay saucer. Drab clay: wheelmade. Type XXXVIII.
43 (none) (none) (none) Clay saucer. Drab clay. Type XXVI.
145 (none) (none) (none) Clay saucer. Coarse drab clay, badly turned, wheelmade. Type IX.
41 (none) (none) (none) Clay relief. fr. of. shewing lower parts of two figures wearing Sumerian skirts. [drawing 1:1]
86 (none) (none) B15390 Clay pot. With wheel-turned grooves on shoulder. Much of rim missing. Type XXXVI. [Annotated] Phil
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.
144 (none) (none) (none) Clay pot. Reddish drab clay. Type XIV. A rather heavier variant than the section drawn, but same type.
507 (none) (none) (none) Clay pot. Reddish clay: wheelmade. Type IX.

Media: TTA Export: JSON - XML - CSV Woolley's Field Note Cards

Media Media Title Title Label Author Omeka Label
Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Ur_Notes_v1_p016 Ur_Notes_v1_p016 (none)
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