TTA

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      

Objects: TTA Export: JSON - XML - CSV

Object U Number Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) Museum Number (BM Registration Number) Museum Number (UPM B-number) Description (Catalog Card)
962F (none) (none) (none) [A-H] 8 fragments of tablets. See U.963. Placed in Packing Case F
962G (none) (none) (none) [A-H] 8 fragments of tablets. See U.963. Placed in Packing Case F
962H (none) (none) (none) [A-H] 8 fragments of tablets. See U.963. Placed in Packing Case F
963B (none) (none) (none) [A-T] 20 fragments of seal impressions. See U.962. Placed in separate unmarked box.
963C (none) (none) (none) [A-T] 20 fragments of seal impressions. See U.962. Placed in separate unmarked box.
963D (none) (none) (none) [A-T] 20 fragments of seal impressions. See U.962. Placed in separate unmarked box.
963E (none) (none) (none) [A-T] 20 fragments of seal impressions. See U.962. Placed in separate unmarked box.
963F (none) (none) (none) [A-T] 20 fragments of seal impressions. See U.962. Placed in separate unmarked box.
963G (none) (none) (none) [A-T] 20 fragments of seal impressions. See U.962. Placed in separate unmarked box.
963H (none) (none) (none) [A-T] 20 fragments of seal impressions. See U.962. Placed in separate unmarked box.
963I (none) (none) (none) [A-T] 20 fragments of seal impressions. See U.962. Placed in separate unmarked box.
963J (none) (none) (none) [A-T] 20 fragments of seal impressions. See U.962. Placed in separate unmarked box.
963K (none) (none) (none) [A-T] 20 fragments of seal impressions. See U.962. Placed in separate unmarked box.
963L (none) (none) (none) [A-T] 20 fragments of seal impressions. See U.962. Placed in separate unmarked box.
963M (none) (none) (none) [A-T] 20 fragments of seal impressions. See U.962. Placed in separate unmarked box.
963N (none) (none) (none) [A-T] 20 fragments of seal impressions. See U.962. Placed in separate unmarked box.
963O (none) (none) (none) [A-T] 20 fragments of seal impressions. See U.962. Placed in separate unmarked box.
963P (none) (none) (none) [A-T] 20 fragments of seal impressions. See U.962. Placed in separate unmarked box.
963Q (none) (none) (none) [A-T] 20 fragments of seal impressions. See U.962. Placed in separate unmarked box.
963R (none) (none) (none) [A-T] 20 fragments of seal impressions. See U.962. Placed in separate unmarked box.
963S (none) (none) (none) [A-T] 20 fragments of seal impressions. See U.962. Placed in separate unmarked box.
963T (none) (none) (none) [A-T] 20 fragments of seal impressions. See U.962. Placed in separate unmarked box.
61B (none) (none) (none) [A-B] Bronze rings. Much oxidized. 1 broken.
12 (none) (none) (none) Clay Pot Coarse yellow-drab clay, wheelmade, round base. broken. Type III (v.)
511 (none) (none) (none) Clay pot. Drab clay: wheelmade. Type XXXI.

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

Media Media Title Title Label Author Omeka Label
Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Ur_Notes_v1_p016 Ur_Notes_v1_p016 (none)
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