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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Object U Number Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) Museum Number (BM Registration Number) Museum Number (UPM B-number) Description (Catalog Card)
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.
40 (none) (none) (none) Obsidian saw. Flake and chip.
2599 (none) (none) (none) Portion of clay sealing. Seal depicting Gilgamesh and Ea-bani fighting human headed bulls. [drawing 1:1]
38 (none) (none) (none) Shell. Cut to form a drip-spoon or ladle. [drawing]
56 (none) (none) (none) Silver buckle(?). of twisted metal, snake-like twist. 3 frs, perhaps of 2 separate ones. [drawing]
5 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. Very coarse grey steatite (?) edges badly chipped.
28 (none) (none) (none) Stone plumb-bob. of fine greyish-white limestone. [drawing 1:1]
454B 52-30-190 (none) (none) Tablet
69 (none) (none) (none) Tablet, clay Inscribed [Annotated] Sumerian Account Tablet, Undated [Annotated] Placed in IN/No. 2
70 (none) (none) (none) Tablet, clay Inscribed. [Annotated] Sumerian Account Tablet dated in 45th year of Dungi [Annotated] Placed in IN/No.2
22A (none) (none) (none) Whetstones. (A) Dark grey slatey stone. [drawing 1:1] (B) Reddish pebble. [drawing 1:1]
22B (none) (none) (none) Whetstones. (A) Dark grey slatey stone. [drawing 1:1] (B) Reddish pebble. [drawing 1:1]
61A (none) (none) (none) [A-B] 2 Bronze rings. Much oxidized. one broken.
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.
61B (none) (none) (none) [A-B] Bronze rings. Much oxidized. 1 broken.
21A (none) (none) (none) [A-G] Flint saws. a-g. [drawing 1:1] [Annotation] not included in Vol. IV. Vol IV.
21B (none) (none) (none) [A-G] Flint saws. a-g. [drawing 1:1] [Annotation] not included in Vol. IV. Vol IV.
21C (none) (none) (none) [A-G] Flint saws. a-g. [drawing 1:1] [Annotation] not included in Vol. IV. Vol IV.
21D (none) (none) (none) [A-G] Flint saws. a-g. [drawing 1:1] [Annotation] not included in Vol. IV. Vol IV.
21E (none) (none) (none) [A-G] Flint saws. a-g. [drawing 1:1] [Annotation] not included in Vol. IV. Vol IV.
21F (none) (none) (none) [A-G] Flint saws. a-g. [drawing 1:1] [Annotation] not included in Vol. IV. Vol IV.
21G (none) (none) (none) [A-G] Flint saws. a-g. [drawing 1:1] [Annotation] not included in Vol. IV. Vol IV.

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

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Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Ur_Notes_v1_p016 Ur_Notes_v1_p016 (none)
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NW end - SE end - South End - TTA.1 - TTA.2 - TTA.3

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