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)
501	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay pot. Pinkish-drab clay. Wheelmade. Type XXIII.
502	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay pot. Pinkish clay with drab engobbage: wheelmade. [Below] Type XXIII.
503A	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay pot. Pinkish-drab clay with drab engobbage: wheelmade. Type X.
504	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay pot. Drab clay: wheelmade. Type I.
505	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay pot. Red clay: wheelmade. Type VII.
507	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay pot. Reddish clay: wheelmade. Type IX.
508	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay pot. Drab clay: wheelmade. Broken. Type IX.
509	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay pot. Reddish clay. Wheelmade. Broken. Type XXVI.
51	(none)	(none)	(none)	Necklace. Consisting of agate lunar pendant, 13 gold beads (some decayed), 12 carnelian and 18 lapis beads (including one barrel 0.047 long) = from this beads through the center 13 are restrung in the original order. and 7 gold beads unstrung.
510	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay pot. Drab clay: wheelmade. Type XXXI. =L.17 (not p)
511	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay pot. Drab clay: wheelmade. Type XXXI.
511	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay pot. Drab clay: wheelmade. Type XXXI.
52	(none)	1923,1110.168	(none)	Gold coil ring. The ends flattened and leaf shaped. [drawing 1:1]
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]
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.
542	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay saucer. Drab clay: wheelmade. Type XXXVIII.
543	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay pot. Drab clay. Wheelmade. Type XXXIX.
544	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay pot. Drab clay. wheelmade. Type XXXIX.
545	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay pot. Drab clay. wheelmade. broken. Type XL.
546	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay cup. Reddish-drab clay. Wheelmade, broken. Type XLI.
548	(none)	1923,1110.69	(none)	Clay pot. Drab clay, wheelmade. Type XLII.
549	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay pot. Drab clay, wheelmade. Type XLII, but with turned down rim [drawing].
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.
552	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay bowl. Drab clay. Wheelmade, broken. Type XLIII.
557	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay saucer. Reddish drab clay, wheelmade, broken. Type XXVI, but the base is not so distinct as usual.