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)
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.
148	(none)	(none)	B15382	Clay jar. of Yellowish clay, wheelmade, the surface covered with matte haematitic wash. Type XX.
149	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay vase. of Reddish clay, wheelmade, with drab engobbage surface. Type XXI.
150	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay bowl. Pinkish drab ware, wheelmade, surface inclined to creamy white in parts. Type XXII
452	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay pot. Red clay with fine hematite engobbage. Wheelmade. Type I.
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.
455	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay pot. Drab clay with fine greenish drab engobbage, wheelmade: top broken. Type XIX
510	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay pot. Drab clay: wheelmade. Type XXXI. =L.17 (not p)
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.
511	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay pot. Drab clay: wheelmade. Type XXXI.
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.