PJ - UrOnline

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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)
20077	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay pot. Painted red and burnished. JN 28
20040	35-1-511	(none)	(none)	Clay pot. Painted ware. Drab clay : on the body below the shoulder, plain horizontal black bands : on the shoulder a floral (?) design with birds, in black paint. In fragments.
20025	35-1-233	(none)	(none)	Clay pot. Painted. JN
20024	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay pot. Painted. JN 28. The lower part of the body is plain. Bright red : on the shoulders panels alternating red and with black geometric designs on a buff ground.
20078	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay pot. Painted. On the shoulder, parts of geometric design in black on buff between red panels. The paint mostly gone. In fragments.
18809	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay tablet (baked). One corner slightly chipped.
18910	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay tablet (edges much damaged).
18734	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay tablet.
18735	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay tablet.
18794	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay tablet.
18814	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay tablet.
18815	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay tablet.
18816	(none)	1953,0411.225	(none)	Clay tablet.
18843	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay tablet.
18893	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay tablet.
18909	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay tablet.
18841	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay tablet. Baked, complete.
18842	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay tablet. Baked, intact.
18876	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay tablet. Baked.
18857	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay tablet. Baked. intact.
18858	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay tablet. Baked. one side much damaged, on intact.
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.
18839	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay tablet. Baked: intact.
18840	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay tablet. Baked: intact.
18765	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay tablet. Bottom end missing.