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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)
19875	(none)	1935,0112.33	(none)	Fish hook. Copper. Barbed, and the haft flattened for tying [drawing]
19356	(none)	1935,0112.3	(none)	Stone bowl. Pink limestone. Type JN 8
19190	(none)	1935,0112.27	(none)	Copper pin. Type 6. [drawing] head thus.
19246	(none)	1935,0112.26	(none)	Copper Prong. Circular-section shaft from which rise two curved prongs (not of the same length) square in section. A square-section tang was fitted into a wooden handle encased in thin copper.
18939	(none)	1935,0112.23	(none)	Copper knife blade. Type 3.
19298	(none)	1935,0112.15	(none)	Vase. Black clay finely burnished. Type JN 13. Imitation of stone type JN 26.
18746	(none)	1935,0112.13	(none)	Seal impression on a square clay tablet. 3 1/2 columns of inscriptions: no figures.
19986	(none)	1935,0112.13	(none)	Clay vase. Painted red all over. JN 47
19495	(none)	1935,0112.109	(none)	Clay model boat with very high stern and prow.
19448	(none)	1935,0112.107	(none)	cut open as lamp, and with a knob base cut on the back,in which two holes (for fixing in a stand?)
19350	(none)	1935,0112.105	(none)	Brown 'smoked' ware. Imitation of stone. (new) JN 22 [much marked through and corrected on card]
19985	(none)	1935,0112.103	(none)	Clay vase. Smooth greenish-drab clay. Imitation of stone type. JN 26 (57) = JN 66
19619	(none)	1935,0112.100	(none)	Stone vase. miniature. Type ? [drawing]
20000	(none)	1935,0112.10	(none)	Stone cup. White limestone. Decorated with figures of 2 cows and a calf in relief. The animal's heads are kept to the same plane as the bodies, not standing out as much; the drawing is naturalistic but the stone is poor and the decay of the surface has damaged the effect of the carving.
19519	(none)	1935,0112.1	(none)	Stone vase. Diorite. Type JN 46
15138	(none)	1930,1213.280	(none)	Tumbler. Baked clay. With two small bosses round upper portion, also decorated with incised lines. The bosses were probably breasts and the tumbler may have been for use in the fertility cult. Both bosses are on one side of the vase only 100 apart. Type: CCCXXVI.
15123B	(none)	1930,1213.272	(none)	[A] Silver tumbler. Inverted over [B] a baked clay spouted pot. Tumbler in poor condition & part missing - distorted. Type 531. [drawing] Not in cat. Vol. IV
15123A	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A] Silver tumbler. Inverted over [B] a baked clay spouted pot. Tumbler in poor condition & part missing - distorted. Type 531. Not in catalog. [drawing]
15137	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone bowl. White translucent calcite. Thick coating of bitumen (c. 10mm thick) ran round top of vase down to shoulder. Most of rim missing.
15139	31-16-464	(none)	(none)	Stone bowl. White limestone. Broken.
15140	31-16-373	(none)	(none)	Stone bowl. Dark green basic diorite. Type XIII. JN38. [drawing 2:5]
15144	31-16-212	(none)	(none)	Baked clay vase. Light drab. Portion of rim missing. Nicked round shoulder. Type: CCCXLIII. Not in catalog.
15163	31-17-13	(none)	(none)	Lead tumbler. Part of top missing, hole in side. Distorted. Not in catalog. [drawing 2:5]
15758B	(none)	(none)	(none)	2 vases. [A] one of baked clay, light drab - [B] a spouted pot covered by [C] an inverted lead tumbler. Type I)XXXI.
15758A	(none)	(none)	(none)	2 vases. [A] one of baked clay, light drab - [B] a spouted pot covered by [C] an inverted lead tumbler. Type I)XXXI.