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)
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].
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.
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.
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.
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.
627	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay pot. Green clay, wheelmade. [below] Type X.
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]
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.
795	(none)	1923,1110.88	(none)	Glaze pot of drab clay covered with blue-green glaze partly flaked off and partly blanched. Type LXXXVIII =P.182a. [drawing]
962A	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-H] 8 fragments of tablets. See U.963. Placed in Packing Case F
963A	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-T] 20 fragments of seal impressions. See U.962. Placed in separate unmarked box.
2599	(none)	(none)	(none)	Portion of clay sealing. Seal depicting Gilgamesh and Ea-bani fighting human headed bulls. [drawing 1:1]
2600	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Broken. Black stone-basalt? Two worshippers on either side of a deity. Weapon of Nergal in the field. About BC 2000. [drawing]
6981	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Worshipping Ishtar. Goddess stands on two lions. She is front face, her hair hanging on shoulders and holds a club (caduceus). Two divine attendants (horned mitra) precede the worshipper - The first carries a club, the second a palm (?) Cresent. Sun. Squat monkey. About BC 2100. (Not dealt with in Roayl Cemetery) [appear to be a publication note] B.
12773	(none)	1928,1010.714	(none)	Brick. Plano-convex.
501	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay pot. Pinkish-drab clay. Wheelmade. Type XXIII.
962B	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-H] 8 fragments of tablets. See U.963. Placed in Packing Case F
962C	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-H] 8 fragments of tablets. See U.963. Placed in Packing Case F
962D	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-H] 8 fragments of tablets. See U.963. Placed in Packing Case F
962E	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-H] 8 fragments of tablets. See U.963. Placed in Packing Case F