TTE

General

Context Title:	TTE
Context Name (Excavation):	Trial trench E
Context Name (Publication):	Royal Cemetery Area
Context Description:	TTE is shorthand for Trial Trench E, one of two initial trenches dug in season 5 to extend TTA from season 1. Woolley dug TTE and TTD at right angles to each other in order to search for graves in what he believed was a potentially vast cemetery. These trenches were never mapped and no aerial photos show them, as by the time of the 1930 photograph the trial trenches had been so extended that most of the Royal Cemetery area was exposed. Fortunately, Woolley's field records allow us to reconstruct its direction and extents. He states that TTE extended southwest to the south gate of the Neo-Babylonian temenos wall. This would make it about 85 meters in length, and though he does not tell us its width it is likely that it was around 4 meters, the same as the measurable trial trenches A, B, and C. Although Woolley reports that he dug "two long trenches running diagonally across the site from the head of the old trench" only TTD can actually have begun at the northern end of TTA. TTE extends at a right angle to TTD, but it does so 8 meters from the northeast corner of TTA. In order to place TTE accurately, other information has been used from field notes and publications. These show that TTE struck PG580 but did not completely reveal it. In fact, Woolley began to dig part of PG580 from the side of the trial trench because he had cut through it without recognizing its full importance. He had to leave this particular grave at the end of the season and return to it in season 6. TTE also hit the stone roofing of PG777 but left it intact. PG580 and PG777 were mapped and show the direction and general placement of TTE. TTE almost immediately began revealing graves, some of them relatively rich in gold jewelry. It is probably for this reason that Woolley did not continue TTD to any great depth but chose instead to focus on TTE. In fact, he later began extending TTE into new trenches along the same line (TTF and TTG). He assigned numbers to each grave as it was uncovered, preceded by the abbreviation PG (Private Grave). The initial sequence, PG1-PG226 were all located within TTE. The sequence then began to share with TTF and eventually with TTG. Unfortunately, none of the first 579 graves were ever mapped within the length of their trial trenches.
Season Number:	05: 1926-1927

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Objects: TTE Export: JSON - XML - CSV Clay Seals and Sealings

U Number	Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)	Museum Number (BM Registration Number)	Museum Number (UPM B-number)	Description (Catalog Card)
18337	33-35-169	(none)	(none)	Stamp seal. Grey steatite. Circular, with convex tip, pierced horizontally. Subject: 2 animals, a third animal and an unrecognizable object: engraved mostly with the circular drill.
7641	(none)	(none)	B16861	Cylinder seal. Green stone. Slightly concave. Broken in antiquity but remended and complete. Gilgamesh and Enkidu back to back the former fighting a rampant bull the latter fighting a rampant lion.
7656	(none)	(none)	B16865	Cylinder seal. Marble. Mottled grey and black. Slightly concave. Gilgamesh fighting rampant lion; Enkidu fighting rampant bull; lion and bull back to back. c. 2800BC.
7956	(none)	(none)	B16856	Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli: tall slender type broken in antiquity; mended. Two registers: above, 2 worshipers approaching a seated goddess with crescent. Below, 3 worshipers approaching a seated goddess with star; behind her a tree.
7989	(none)	(none)	B16864	Cylinder seal. Black steatite with silver caps. Subject Gilgamesh and Eabana fighting bulls. (N.B.) part of the linen thread was preserved in the hole)
7990	(none)	(none)	B16789	Cylinder seal of grey mottled stone -- ? fossilised coral. Much worn: subject: crossed goats and 3 persons pouring libations.
8006	(none)	(none)	B16889	Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. 2 registers: above, 2 seated figures, table and door. Below, 2 animals? Very deep cutting and most primitive style.
8053	(none)	(none)	B16866	Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Two registers. Above: two seated deities with an attendant between them & facing one of them, two worshippers. Below: a door? a seated deity & 3 worshippers. Very archaic style, figures with birdlike heads.
8056A	(none)	(none)	B16882	Cylinder seals of white shell. All in very bad condition. A: 4 animals, the centre two heraldically crossed, and a tree? or man? B: unrecognisable. C: unrecognisable.
8056B	(none)	(none)	B16891	Cylinder seals of white shell. All in very bad condition. A: 4 animals, the centre two heraldically crossed, and a tree? or man? B: unrecognisable. C: unrecognisable.
8290	(none)	(none)	B16863	Cylinder seal. Shell. Pinkish. Slightly blackened by fire. Two registers. Subject indistinct. Above: A spread eagle. Below: A kneeling? man, and a snake? occupying the full length of the seal 2 winged dragons, crossed, and a rampant bull.
8416	(none)	(none)	B16870	Cylinder seal. Steatite. Green. Small piece missing near one end. Inscribed. Slightly concave. Two rampant lions back to back. Each is attacked by a naked bearded and horned hero. Between the 2 lions tails 3 vertical lines with rounded heads standing above a pair of spread wings? - thus [drawing]
8476	(none)	(none)	B16887	Cylinder seal Steatite Black Inscribed but illegible. Two heroes attacking a rampant lion. One grasps him by the tail, the other attacks from the front.
8513	(none)	(none)	B16869	Cylinder seal White shell, much decayed, but preserving an inscription in the upper register [drawing of inscription]
8615	(none)	(none)	B16828	Cylinder seal. Lapis. 2 registers: above: three seated deities(?) with a worshipper in front of each. Below: door: 3 seated and 3 standing figures. Archaic style.
8804	(none)	(none)	B17217	Clay sealing?? Large clay fragment with elaborate design of spirals etc.

16 Objects

Media: TTE Export: JSON - XML - CSV

Media Title	Title	Label	Author	Omeka Label
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Ur Excavations II; The Royal Cemetery	Ur Excavations II; The Royal Cemetery	1934	Woolley, Leonard	(none)
UPM Field Photo numbers	UPM Field Photo numbers	(none)	(none)	(none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards	Woolley's Field Note Cards	Royal Cemetary Notes 540-685_p067	Royal Cemetary Notes 540-685_p067	(none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards	Woolley's Field Note Cards	Royal Cemetary Notes 540-685_p068	Royal Cemetary Notes 540-685_p068	(none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards	Woolley's Field Note Cards	Royal Cemetary Notes 540-685_p069	Royal Cemetary Notes 540-685_p069	(none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards	Woolley's Field Note Cards	Royal Cemetary Notes 540-685_p070	Royal Cemetary Notes 540-685_p070	(none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards	Woolley's Field Note Cards	Royal Cemetary Notes 540-685_p071	Royal Cemetary Notes 540-685_p071	(none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards	Woolley's Field Note Cards	Royal Cemetary Notes 540-685_p072	Royal Cemetary Notes 540-685_p072	(none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards	Woolley's Field Note Cards	Royal Cemetary Notes 540-685_p073	Royal Cemetary Notes 540-685_p073	(none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards	Woolley's Field Note Cards	Royal Cemetary Notes 540-685_p074	Royal Cemetary Notes 540-685_p074	(none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards	Woolley's Field Note Cards	Royal Cemetary Notes 540-685_p075	Royal Cemetary Notes 540-685_p075	(none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards	Woolley's Field Note Cards	Royal Cemetary Notes 540-685_p076	Royal Cemetary Notes 540-685_p076	(none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards	Woolley's Field Note Cards	Royal Cemetary Notes 540-685_p077	Royal Cemetary Notes 540-685_p077	(none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards	Woolley's Field Note Cards	Royal Cemetary Notes 540-685_p078	Royal Cemetary Notes 540-685_p078	(none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards	Woolley's Field Note Cards	Royal Cemetary Notes 540-685_p079	Royal Cemetary Notes 540-685_p079	(none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards	Woolley's Field Note Cards	Royal Cemetary Notes 540-685_p080	Royal Cemetary Notes 540-685_p080	(none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards	Woolley's Field Note Cards	Royal Cemetary Notes 540-685_p081	Royal Cemetary Notes 540-685_p081	(none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards	Woolley's Field Note Cards	Royal Cemetary Notes 540-685_p082	Royal Cemetary Notes 540-685_p082	(none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards	Woolley's Field Note Cards	Royal Cemetary Notes 540-685_p083	Royal Cemetary Notes 540-685_p083	(none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards	Woolley's Field Note Cards	Ur_Notes_v1_p144	Ur_Notes_v1_p144	(none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards	Woolley's Field Note Cards	Ur_Notes_v1_p145	Ur_Notes_v1_p145	(none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards	Woolley's Field Note Cards	Ur_Notes_v2_p015	Ur_Notes_v2_p015	(none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards	Woolley's Field Note Cards	Ur_Notes_v2_p173	Ur_Notes_v2_p173	(none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards	Woolley's Field Note Cards	Ur_Notes_v4_p246	Ur_Notes_v4_p246	(none)