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)
78	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay tablet. Inscribed. [Annotated] Sumerian list, period Third Dynasty of Ur, date broken, begins MU.EN.NINGAR (Nannar)
80	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Greenish white steatite. Subject, god seated rt. A minor deity introducing a worshipper: inscr. in 2 columns [drawing of inscription] 3rd Dynasty
81	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Paste. Poor condition. Simple criss-cross design. [drawing 1:1]
83	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay pot. Greenish drab clay, wheelmade. Type III.
84	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay pot. Drab clay, wheelmade. Type III.
85	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay pot. Coarse drab clay, clumsy wheelmade ware. Most of rim missing. Type XXXV.
87	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay vase. Greenish drab ware, wheelmade, with wheel-turned grooves round shoulder. Type XII.
88	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay pot. Pinkish drab clay, wheelmade. Type XI.
89	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay pot. Red clay with fine hematitic engobbage. Wheelmade. Much decayed by salt. Type I.
90	(none)	1923,1110.71	(none)	Clay pot. Drab clay, wheelmade, with fine creamy engobbage. Type I.
91	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay pot. Drab clay, wheelmade, with fine cramy white engobbage. Most of rim missing. Type I.
92	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay pot. Miniature. Rough, handmade, of red clay. Neck pierced with 2 holes for suspension. Type XXVII. [Drawing 1:1]
99	(none)	(none)	(none)	Fragment of Clay Cone. Duplicate of one found by Taylor with an inscription recording a dedication to the Sun-god by Enannatum, a priest of the Moon-god, for the life of Gunguau, King of Ur (and Larsa).
100	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay figurine, fr. of [drawing 1:1]
101	(none)	(none)	(none)	Mud seal impression. fr of. Upper part of god's figure l. with lance behind. Probably 3rd Dynasty? [drawing not to scale]
102	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay spool. [drawing 1:1]
103	(none)	(none)	(none)	Fr. of clay model bed. [drawing 1:1]
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
116	(none)	(none)	(none)	Fragment from base of clay pot containing bright blue pigment.
144	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay pot. Reddish drab clay. Type XIV. A rather heavier variant than the section drawn, but same type.
145	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay saucer. Coarse drab clay, badly turned, wheelmade. Type IX.
146	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay vase. Reddish clay, wheelmade, with fine hematitic wash on surface. Type XVIII.
147	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay pot. Greenish drab clay, wheelmade. Type XIX.
149	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay vase. of Reddish clay, wheelmade, with drab engobbage surface. Type XXI.