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      

Objects: TTE 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)
7840 (none) 1928,1009.421 (none) Stone bowl. Calcite. Inscribed A-gir-gal. Type 39 new. HC.43 [drawing]
7841 (none) (none) (none) Seal impression. BA?-MA? DAM figure of Divinity? Gazelle? HC.44
7842 (none) (none) (none) Fragment of tablet. Archaic. IL-SU-UR-SAG; IL-SAHAR-; - SAHAR-DA. HC.45.
7845A (none) (none) (none) Cone. Fragments of two duplicate cones. 1st col. nearly duplicates U.7702 (Libit-Ishtar) but with the variant in l. 13 noted in SAK 204. Anm. i. 2nd col. is a new text. Part of another of same (col. 1 line 10 omits -na) cf. also U.7797. HC.49.
7845B (none) (none) (none) Cone. Fragments of two duplicate cones. 1st col. nearly duplicates U.7702 (Libit-Ishtar) but with the variant in l. 13 noted in SAK 204. Anm. i. 2nd col. is a new text. Part of another of same (col. 1 line 10 omits -na) cf. also U.7797. HC.49.
7845C (none) (none) (none) Cone. Fragments of two duplicate cones. 1st col. nearly duplicates U.7702 (Libit-Ishtar) but with the variant in l. 13 noted in SAK 204. Anm. i. 2nd col. is a new text. Part of another of same (col. 1 line 10 omits -na) cf. also U.7797. HC.49.
7848A (none) (none) (none) [A-D] 4 clay sealings. Figures but no inscriptions. (these are deteriorating)
7848B (none) (none) (none) [A-D] 4 clay sealings. Figures but no inscriptions. (these are deteriorating)
7848C (none) (none) (none) [A-D] 4 clay sealings. Figures but no inscriptions. (these are deteriorating)
7848D (none) (none) (none) [A-D] 4 clay sealings. Figures but no inscriptions. (these are deteriorating)
7849 (none) (none) (none) Tablet. Blackish. Very archaic account tablet. HC.54.
7850 (none) (none) (none) Copper knife blade. thick rivets for haft. II. [drawing 1:1]
7851 (none) (none) (none) Copper axe. Thickly covered with corrosion but intact. [drawing]
7852 (none) (none) (none) Copper axe. rather slender and light type. XIX. [drawing]
7853 (none) (none) (none) Copper pronged tool. [drawing]
7854 (none) (none) (none) Copper rod. Square in section, tapered to ends, one end flattened to chisel edge the other pointed. Chisel 1.
7855 (none) 1928,1009.212 (none) Copper axe. Lower part of socket broken away, much of the wood left in the socket. XIX. [drawing]
7856 (none) (none) B17418 Copper axe. Rather slender example. One side of the socket has decayed and broken away exposing remains of wooden haft.
7857 (none) (none) (none) Copper axe. Slender type. Socket broken in two lengthwise and part missing.
7858 (none) (none) B17471 Copper reticule. A cone with ball end, containing 4 small copper toilet utensils fastned on to a ring. [drawing]
7859 (none) 1928,1009.339 (none) Copper reticule. Cone-shaped with base knob. In it 4 small copper toilet instruments held together by a copper ring.
7860 (none) (none) (none) Copper reticule. Cone-shaped with base knob. In it 3 small copper toilet instruments held together by a copper ring.
7861 (none) (none) (none) Copper adze. [drawing]
7862 (none) 1928,1009.287 (none) Copper dagger. The blade had originally a tang fixed by rivets into a wooden handle: tang broken: the handle was decorated with small copper studs driven into the wood so that the heads touched each other: traces of the handle remained and some of the studs were corroded together in position.
7863 (none) (none) (none) Copper pin with ball head of lapis lazuli and gold shaft has round section. Head thus: [drawing]
Media Media Title Title Label Author Omeka Label
0 0 (none)
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)
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