Context Title: PS     
Context Name (Excavation): PS     
Context Description: The excavation area abbreviation PS probably stood for Palace Stores and refers to the series of magazine-like rooms surrounding the Great Nanna Courtyard. Woolley originally coded the region of the courtyard as PD, standing for Palace of Dungi, since he felt it might have been a palace. The series of rooms surrounding the courtyard may well have been for storage, but Woolley came to realize that the building itself was not a palace. The abbreviation PS appears on several season 3 catalog cards, but no explanation of its meaning occurs. Legrain lists PR as the magazines around the courtyard, but this was probably a mis-typed reference to PS since PR does not appear as an abbreviation on any of Woolley's cards.     
Season Number: 03: 1924-1925      

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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)
2809 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Red marble. About 2700 BC [drawing]
2812 (none) (none) (none) Brick with geometrical drawing. Build squares of 6 x 10. Nabonidus period. In text: Neo-Babylonian Period (14)
2821 (none) (none) (none) Clay pot. Handmade, miniature of brownish ware. Sketch pattern to seals [last word unclear] cf. type CXXVIII [drawing 1:1]
2839 (none) (none) (none) Clay vase. Buffware; with small foot and tall straight sides: fragmentary. Type CXXIV. =P.76a
2840A 29-174-13 (none) (none) Pottery vase. Buff ware, with pointed bottom. Larsa period. Type CLIV. =RC.54, =IL40b. (B. slightly variant, of poor quality with flattening of point at bottom: with U.3268 (type CCIV) ESB.21)
2840B (none) (none) (none) Pottery vase. Buff ware, with pointed bottom. Larsa period. Type CLIV. =RC.54, =IL40b. (B. slightly variant, of poor quality with flattening of point at bottom: with U.3268 (type CCIV) ESB.21)
2969 (none) 1948,0423.296 (none) Small tablet III Ur Dynasty. 1 grass sheep. Lugal-ka-gi-na. [drawing]
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Sibling Locations

Room 1 - Well no. 1

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