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Context Title:	PJ
Context Name (Excavation):	PJ
Context Name (Excavation):	Jemdet Nasr Cemetery
Context Description:	The excavation area abbreviation PJ originally referred solely to Pit J, later renamed Pit Y. The abbreviation then came to represent the expansion of the Royal Cemetery to the south from Pit Y, called Pit X. Pit Y uncovered many graves earlier than the Royal Cemetery that Woolley believed to come from the Jemdet Nasr period. This gave rise to the southern extension being conceived of as a Jemdet Nasr cemetery for which Woolley began assigning PJ numbers. From the beginning of Pit X, Woolley assigned PJG numbers rather than PG numbers. He quickly recognized that these upper graves were actually a continuation of the Royal Cemetery Akkadian burials and when he began to see the burials of the main Royal Cemetery period, he switched to PJB numbers. Below these he assigned JNG numbers to graves, continuing the sequence from Pit W excavated in the preceding year. Then he renumbered early graves in Pits Y and Z (dug 4 years prior) to follow the Pit X JNG sequence. There are very few references to the original Pit J. In fact, all catalog cards that utilize the PJ abbreviation come from the final season of excavation and all refer to Pit X. Any artifacts that have only the PJ designation and no further refinement of grave number come from the general area of Pit X and were not associated with a specific grave. These often have further notes such as 'upper levels' or other indication that they are from the dumping grounds near the surface of Pit X.
Season Number:	08: 1929-1930
Season Number:	11: 1932-1933
Season Number:	12: 1933-1934

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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)
18846	(none)	(none)	(none)	Gold earring. Lunate type, small, very thin metal, pale color electrum.
18847	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Grey steatite. Seated deity and two standing figures, and two columns of inscription. Much worn.
18848	(none)	(none)	(none)	Fragment of stone bowl. Steatite. Decorated in relief. [drawing 1:1]
18849	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Hard black steatite. Worshipper and minor god before Nin-gal; behind her, a small figure of a god standing on an animal. Photo +.
18850	(none)	(none)	(none)	Die. Of grey pottery; with numbers marked by pin pricks. [drawing]
18852	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Seated goddess with horned cap and long flounced dress seated facing right with her feet on a lion. Top corner of plaque broken but the figure intact.
18853	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief, fragment. Woman standing, full face, wearing heavy cape and coat with long hanging cuffs: her hands clasped in front. Broken away below the waist.
18855	(none)	(none)	(none)	Miniature clay vase. [drawing 4:5]
18856	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay tablet. Baked. Covered with very fine writing; about half the text on one side is flaked away, the other side intact.
18857	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay tablet. Baked. intact.
18858	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay tablet. Baked. one side much damaged, on intact.
18859	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay tablet. One face shipped.
18860	(none)	(none)	(none)	Pottery fragment from rim of bowl. Of fine dary grey ware, with incised decoration of lines and concenytric circles, the incisions filled with white paste (circles compas drawn). [drawing 1:1]
18861	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper razor. [drawing 1:1]
18862	(none)	1935,0112.57	(none)	Bead, half of: flattened date-shaped, carnelian, artifcially bleached white all over (the bleaching has penetrated deep into the stone) and then etched with a black pattern. [drawing 1:1]
18871	(none)	(none)	(none)	Bronze situla. Very good condition.
18872	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper arrowhead. [drawing 1:1]
18873	(none)	(none)	(none)	Weight hematite. Long thin date-shaped. Type III.
18875	(none)	(none)	(none)	Weight Steatite. Date-shaped. Weight according to Baghdad 81 2/3 grammes = 1260.27 Troy grains (1 gramme = 15.432 Troy grains)
18876	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay tablet. Baked.
18877	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay tablet. Unbaked.
18878	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay foundation cone, fragment of. Lower part of the stem and fragment of the surface of the base. Inscribed on base and stem.
18879A	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper pins (two). Type 4. (B) the shorter pin, has the stem flattened and broaded to the head, which is merely bent over, not curled. [drawing]
18881	(none)	(none)	(none)	Gold earrings. Small lunate.
18882	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Crystal. Seated deity and two standing figures, and two columns of inscription. Chipped behind shoulder of seated figure.