TTD

Context Title: TTD     
Context Name (Excavation): Trial Trench D     
Context Name (Publication): Royal Cemetery Area     
Context Description: TTD is shorthand for Trial Trench D, one of two initial trenches dug in season 5 to extend TTA from season 1. Woolley dug TTD and TTE to search for graves in what he believed was a potentially vast cemetery. Neither of these trenches were ever mapped and no aerial photos show them, as by the time of the 1930 RAF photograph the trial trenches had been so extended that most of the Royal Cemetery area had already been exposed. Luckily, Woolley's field records allow us to reconstruct the direction and extents of the trench. He states that it ran from the head (northeast end) of TTA and extended southeastward to the east corner of the Neo-Babylonian temenos wall, making it about 65 meters in length. Though he does not tell us its width it is likely that it was about 4 meters, the same as the measurable trial trenches A, B, and C. TTD did not reveal much, but it was only excavated to a depth of around 2 meters. As Woolley reports in the Antiquaries Journal volume 7 page 1: "The trench to the temenos angle produced no sign of buildings, but for the greater part of its length a floor of beaten mud, lying about 1.75 m. below the present surface, at which level we stopped short." It had just missed the south corner of the Mausoleum of the Ur III kings, and when area PG was expanded beneath the level of TTD in season 8, many graves were recorded here.     
Season Number: 05: 1926-1927      

Objects: TTD 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)
7693 (none) (none) (none) String of beads. Gold, carnelian and lapis.
7780 (none) (none) (none) Tablet Round Like 7716 Inscribed Lugal ////////////// Lugal ////////////// L[ugal /////////////
7769 (none) (none) (none) Tablet Small oval tablet or label? ia edin-a-kam.
7773 47-29-81 (none) (none) Tablet Very small tablet Note of payments of gold Mu Urudu? alam lugal KU-A-G.
7774 (none) (none) (none) Tablet (fragm). neo-Bab?
7785 (none) (none) (none) Tablet.
7770 52-30-7 (none) (none) Tablet. Contract (excellent condition). dated 2nd year of Cambyses.
8853 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Grotesque male figure. Missing below the waist. [drawing 1:1]
7668 (none) 1935,0113.378 (none) Terracotta statuette. Water buffalo? Head alone remains, missing below neck. [drawing 1:1]
7694A (none) (none) B17703 [A-B] 2 gold foil diadems. Perforated at each end. [drawing 1:1]
7694B (none) (none) (none) [A-B] 2 gold foil diadems. Perforated at each end. [drawing 1:1]
7888A (none) (none) B16963 [A-B] Two copper rings. Made of a fairly thick rod bent round with the ends just overlapping.
7888B (none) (none) (none) [A-B] Two copper rings. Made of a fairly thick rod bent round with the ends just overlapping.
7695A (none) (none) (none) [A-C] 3 hair? rings or ear rings. Gold. Thickened boat shaped ends. [drawing]
7695B (none) (none) (none) [A-C] 3 hair? rings or ear rings. Gold. Thickened boat shaped ends. [drawing]
7695C (none) (none) (none) [A-C] 3 hair? rings or ear rings. Gold. Thickened boat shaped ends. [drawing]
7772A (none) (none) (none) [A] Clay cone (fragm) Sumuilum = U.2634, 2778. [B] Another. [C] Another fragment perhaps belonging with preceding. [D] Another. [E] Another. [F-I] 4 more; one with text complete. [J]1 more: with text complete (nearly) (all but one to B[aghdad])
7772B (none) (none) (none) [A] Clay cone (fragm) Sumuilum = U.2634, 2778. [B] Another. [C] Another fragment perhaps belonging with preceding. [D] Another. [E] Another. [F-I] 4 more; one with text complete. [J]1 more: with text complete (nearly) (all but one to B[aghdad])
7772C (none) (none) (none) [A] Clay cone (fragm) Sumuilum = U.2634, 2778. [B] Another. [C] Another fragment perhaps belonging with preceding. [D] Another. [E] Another. [F-I] 4 more; one with text complete. [J]1 more: with text complete (nearly) (all but one to B[aghdad])
7772D (none) (none) (none) [A] Clay cone (fragm) Sumuilum = U.2634, 2778. [B] Another. [C] Another fragment perhaps belonging with preceding. [D] Another. [E] Another. [F-I] 4 more; one with text complete. [J]1 more: with text complete (nearly) (all but one to B[aghdad])
7772F (none) (none) (none) [A] Clay cone (fragm) Sumuilum = U.2634, 2778. [B] Another. [C] Another fragment perhaps belonging with preceding. [D] Another. [E] Another. [F-I] 4 more; one with text complete. [J]1 more: with text complete (nearly) (all but one to B[aghdad])
7772G (none) (none) (none) [A] Clay cone (fragm) Sumuilum = U.2634, 2778. [B] Another. [C] Another fragment perhaps belonging with preceding. [D] Another. [E] Another. [F-I] 4 more; one with text complete. [J]1 more: with text complete (nearly) (all but one to B[aghdad])
7772H (none) (none) (none) [A] Clay cone (fragm) Sumuilum = U.2634, 2778. [B] Another. [C] Another fragment perhaps belonging with preceding. [D] Another. [E] Another. [F-I] 4 more; one with text complete. [J]1 more: with text complete (nearly) (all but one to B[aghdad])
7772I (none) (none) (none) [A] Clay cone (fragm) Sumuilum = U.2634, 2778. [B] Another. [C] Another fragment perhaps belonging with preceding. [D] Another. [E] Another. [F-I] 4 more; one with text complete. [J]1 more: with text complete (nearly) (all but one to B[aghdad])
7772J (none) (none) (none) [A] Clay cone (fragm) Sumuilum = U.2634, 2778. [B] Another. [C] Another fragment perhaps belonging with preceding. [D] Another. [E] Another. [F-I] 4 more; one with text complete. [J]1 more: with text complete (nearly) (all but one to B[aghdad])

Media: TTD 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_v2_p127c Ur_Notes_v2_p127c (none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Ur_Notes_v2_p128c Ur_Notes_v2_p128c (none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Ur_Notes_v2_p166 Ur_Notes_v2_p166 (none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Ur_Notes_v4_p247 Ur_Notes_v4_p247 (none)
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