TTG

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Context Title:	TTG
Context Name (Excavation):	Trial Trench G
Context Name (Publication):	Royal Cemetery Area
Context Description:	TTG is shorthand for Trial Trench G, the second extension of TTE, actually extending TTF and obliterating TTA. Like the other trenches in the Royal Cemetery it was never mapped and does not appear on an aerial photograph. The trench was dug on the same lines as TTF, essentially extending its width to the northwest. The first grave to be numbered in this trench was PG355, but the sequence from this point up to PG580 is shared among the three trenches. This trial trench and TTF may have been about 5 meters wide, somewhat wider than other trial trenches as Woolley continued to expand, though there is no proof of this other than a slight indication on the 1930 aerial photograph. Excavation while the three trenches were open would have resembled a wide stair case, with TTE being the lowest in the southeast, TTF somewhat higher to the northwest, and TTG higher still. By the end of the season, all three trenches had reached at least 5 meters depth, though TTE had reached 9 meters. The northwest portion of the cemetery did not produce as many graves as the southeast and Woolley extended excavations in the following season over a large area southeast of TTE, beginning with PG580. He also began to map individual graves in the overall area at this point.
Season Number:	05: 1926-1927

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U Number	Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)	Museum Number (BM Registration Number)	Museum Number (UPM B-number)	Description (Catalog Card)
9153	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads & Seal 1 very long carnelian bugle, i ditto. green jasper, 2 crystal rings and 2 gold balls: on the end a silver button seal with engraved face: subject not decipherable. [drawing]
8918	(none)	1928,1009.69	(none)	Beads. A necklace composed of small diamond-shaped lapis beads and of flat gold disk beads strung alternately. NB. Either some of the of the gold beads were not found or else at the back there was lapis only.
8920	(none)	1928,1009.77	(none)	Beads. A string of small lentoids of lapis and of gold foil over copper (the latter in bad condition) strung in alternate sets of 6.
8974	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Gold-plated copper and lapis, small. (the former in bad condition)
9129	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Small carnelian rings, long bugles, and lapis beads small mixed.
8962	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Small gold, silver, lapis and carnelian. For order see Field Notes.
9143	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Small lentoids of lapis & gold (thin plate over copper), with a few carnelians: strung in sets of 6. See field notes. one strings
8970	(none)	1928,1009.135	(none)	Beads. Small, gold over copper, and lapis strung up in sets of 2 and 4 of a sort.
8669	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. 2 large carnelian, 2 ditto lapis, and some copper beads. See field notes.
8670	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Crystal, gold plated, lapis and carnelian, and one agate with gold caps. See field notes.
9142	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Diamond-shaped flat plate beads alternately lapis and gold plate over copper - the latter in bad condition. One string.
8667	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Lapis, carnelian, 1 chalcedony, 1 silver disk bead (broken) and two or three gold plated beads in bad condition. See field notes.
8921	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Small silver and carnelian beads, (NB: Some of these are mixed up with U.8920)
8846	(none)	(none)	B17314	BITUMEN BELLUM
8847	(none)	(none)	B17313	Bitumen bellum
8848	(none)	(none)	B17315	Bitumen bellum.
8849	(none)	(none)	(none)	Bitumen bellum.
9206	(none)	(none)	(none)	Bodkin Copper Complete but bent
9091	(none)	(none)	(none)	Bone comb.
9214	(none)	(none)	(none)	Bone inlay Painted red [drawing] 1:1
9212	(none)	(none)	(none)	Bowl Bath shaped Calcite White Part of rim broken & small portion missing Stone type LXXXIII.
8973	(none)	(none)	(none)	Bowl. White calcite. Saucer type. [Original catalog card replaced, likely not Woolley: Stone bowl, white calcite, Type 57, ht 0.05m, d. 0.018m PG 433 (B.4107)]
8964	(none)	1928,1009.203	(none)	Bracelet. Plain circlet of silver tube, penannular. Also, fragments of a 2nd similar.
9152A	(none)	(none)	(none)	Bracelets & finger rings Silver A set [A-B] Two bracelets, open rings of plain silver wire. diam 0065 [C-F] 4 finger rings each made of 2 spiral coils of plain wire. [G] 1 finger ring of flat plate with raised edges. Thus: [drawing] 1:1 See field notes.
9152B	(none)	(none)	(none)	Bracelets & finger rings Silver A set [A-B] Two bracelets, open rings of plain silver wire. diam 0065 [C-F] 4 finger rings each made of 2 spiral coils of plain wire. [G] 1 finger ring of flat plate with raised edges. Thus: [drawing] 1:1 See field notes.