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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Object U Number Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) Museum Number (BM Registration Number) Museum Number (UPM B-number) Description (Catalog Card)
9277D (none) (none) (none) [A-D] Finger rings Silver and copper Fastened together by corrosion (See field notes)
9277C (none) (none) (none) [A-D] Finger rings Silver and copper Fastened together by corrosion (See field notes)
9277B (none) (none) (none) [A-D] Finger rings Silver and copper Fastened together by corrosion (See field notes)
9277A (none) (none) (none) [A-D] Finger rings Silver and copper Fastened together by corrosion (See field notes)
9274 (none) (none) (none) Copper Finger Ring Thick copper
9273 (none) (none) (none) Silver Ear Ring 1 1/2 coils Thickened ends
9272 (none) (none) (none) Copper knife Flat blade Short tang with rivets Common type [Type] II
9271 (none) (none) (none) Cockle shell Containing Peacock Blue Paint
9270 (none) (none) (none) Copper chisel [drawing]
9269 (none) 1928,1009.522 (none) Steatite bowl Broken & portion of rim missing Type LXII
9268 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal Frit Subject indistinct: A crescent moon and standing warriors
9267B (none) (none) (none) A & B 2 Copper Finger rings Single coil of thick copper.
9267A (none) (none) (none) [A-B] Finger rings (2). Single coil of thick copper.
9266 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal Limestone White Subject not clear. A seated god, a squatting lion, vertical posts, a god behind the bards of a gate? And a second standing god.
9265 (none) 1928,1009.59 (none) Button seal Black shale? One side flat, the other convex On the convex side 4 sets of concentric rings Pl. 62 vol. IV L.BM. 120576
9264 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal Steatite Black A pair of spread wings and feathered decoration running round the seal forming 2 hyperboles the one above the other, below the central horizontal axis of the seal.
9263 (none) (none) B16855 Cylinder seal Steatite Black Geometric decoration
9262 (none) (none) B16860 Cylinder seal Steatite Green. Slightly concave. A god standing between two portals, the left foot raised and resting upon the mountain top, the right foot rigid- as if in the attitude of ascending? His left hand is upraised and in it he holds a feather whisk?? His head is turned backward in contemplation of a minute human figure crouching in the attitude of subjection. The god's right hand is extended immediately above the head of the victim that he has crushed. Oblique to the go are three concentric wavy lines above the right shoulder - possibly representing lightening? The god wears a horned headdress. A second god also wearing a horned headdress, long hair falling below the shoulders and ending in a knot? and a skirt descending to the feet, approaches one of the portals and touches it with hands as if about to open it.
9258 (none) (none) (none) Copper axe Blade abnormally wide in the middle. Broken in 2 pieces [drawing] [type] XV
9254 (none) (none) (none) Silver Wire 1 1/2 coils of fairly thick silver wire
9253 (none) (none) (none) Necklace. 60-70 lapis lazuli beads - double conoids.
9252 (none) (none) (none) Donkey's ear? Lapis lazuli Spoon shaped with a rounded socket which must originally have been fitted to the statue of which the lapis ear was a part. Back of the ear is convex with a ridge running vertically down the middle. At the socket end of the ear in the middle, a shallow circular cavity 0004 in diameter. [drawing] 1:1
9251 (none) (none) (none) Axe Copper Slender type [drawing] [type] XV
9250 (none) (none) (none) Stone Vase Calcite White Badly broken, but virtually complete. Type?
9249 (none) (none) (none) Stone Bowl Steatite Dark grey In many fragments - complete?? Type? Probably like type LXII.

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