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)
559A	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay bowl-fragments. Wheelmade, reddish clay. (below) Large example of Type XXII ornamented with three ridges, .015 apart, below the neck.
56	(none)	(none)	(none)	Silver buckle(?). of twisted metal, snake-like twist. 3 frs, perhaps of 2 separate ones. [drawing]
560	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay vase. Greenish drab clay, wheelmade. (Below) Type X.
562	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay bowl. Reddish-drab clay. Wheelmade, broken. (Below) Type XLVI.
57A	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-B] 2 Silver bracelets. Square-ended circles of silver rod grooved longitudinally along out face: much oxidized.
57B	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-B] 2 Silver bracelets. Square-ended circles of silver rod grooved longitudinally along outer face: much oxidized.
58A	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-B] Bronze bowls, 2. Much crushed and broken, and completely oxidized,. Roughly hemispherical.
58B	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-B] Bronze bowls, 2. Much crushed and broken, and completely oxidized,. Roughly hemispherical.
59	(none)	(none)	(none)	Bronze axe. [drawing 1:2]
6	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay pot. of Reddish clay with creamy white engobbage. Wheelmade. Type III.
60	(none)	(none)	(none)	Bronze pointed Rod. ? spear butt?
611	(none)	(none)	B15198	Clay figurine of a bear. Forepart only. Reddish clay with creamy drab surface. [drawing]
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.
61A	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-B] 2 Bronze rings. Much oxidized. one broken.
61B	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-B] Bronze rings. Much oxidized. 1 broken.
62	(none)	(none)	(none)	Bronze dagger. Point broken. 3 rivets. [drawing 1:2]
627	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay pot. Green clay, wheelmade. [below] Type X.
64	(none)	(none)	(none)	Alabaster bowl. In very bad condition, stained and whole surface eroded, much of rim broken away. [drawing 1:2]
65	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay figurine. Lower part missing. Moulded. [drawing 1:1]
655A	(none)	(none)	B14974	Fragment of a bowl with fine white limestone, virtually marble; rather more than 1/2 preserved. Flat base. (below) RC.19L. [drawing]
66	(none)	(none)	B15183	Clay plaque. Fr. of, With figure of god moulded in relief. [drawing 1:1] [Annotated] Phil
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
679	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay pot. Pinkish drab clay, wheelmade. Type XXIII.
68	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay figurine. Snowman technique. Horseman (?) with traces on back of a cloak or shield decorated with circles. [drawing]
69	(none)	(none)	(none)	Tablet, clay Inscribed [Annotated] Sumerian Account Tablet, Undated [Annotated] Placed in IN/No. 2