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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)
18903B	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper group: (A) Chisel. Type 2a (B) Chisel. Type 4a. (C) Saw (the tip missing) (D) Awl (broken). (E) Bowl, hemispherical; cracked and slightly crushed.
18903C	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper group: (A) Chisel. Type 2a (B) Chisel. Type 4a. (C) Saw (the tip missing) (D) Awl (broken). (E) Bowl, hemispherical; cracked and slightly crushed.
18903D	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper group: (A) Chisel. Type 2a (B) Chisel. Type 4a. (C) Saw (the tip missing) (D) Awl (broken). (E) Bowl, hemispherical; cracked and slightly crushed.
18903E	35-1-437	(none)	(none)	Copper group: (A) Chisel. Type 2a (B) Chisel. Type 4a. (C) Saw (the tip missing) (D) Awl (broken). (E) Bowl, hemispherical; cracked and slightly crushed.
18939	(none)	1935,0112.23	(none)	Copper knife blade. Type 3.
18938	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper knife blade. Type 7a.
18940	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper knife blade. Type 7a.
18935	35-1-422	(none)	(none)	Copper knife-blade. Type 7b. good condition.
19148	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper knives. Type 3.
19150A	35-1-424	(none)	(none)	Copper knives. Type 5.
19151A	35-1-423	(none)	(none)	Copper knives. Type 6.
19494	35-1-434	(none)	(none)	Copper mirror? a flat disk of thin metal with a short projecting tang for handle attachment.
19496	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper mixing spoon? a long handle formed of a metal rod rectangular in section twisted on itself to give a spiral form: at one end a spade-shaped flat blade 27mm wide and 35mm long of very thin metal thus: [drawing]
19020	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper object, thus: [drawing 1:1]
18897A	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper objects. [A] a pin, straight and with rounded head (type 8), [B-C] two bracelets and [D-G] four finger rings, together with [H] 4 beads, fixed together by oxidation.
18897B	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper objects. [A] a pin, straight and with rounded head (type 8), [B-C] two bracelets and [D-G] four finger rings, together with [H] 4 beads, fixed together by oxidation.
18897C	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper objects. [A] a pin, straight and with rounded head (type 8), [B-C] two bracelets and [D-G] four finger rings, together with [H] 4 beads, fixed together by oxidation.
18897D	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper objects. [A] a pin, straight and with rounded head (type 8), [B-C] two bracelets and [D-G] four finger rings, together with [H] 4 beads, fixed together by oxidation.
18897E	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper objects. [A] a pin, straight and with rounded head (type 8), [B-C] two bracelets and [D-G] four finger rings, together with [H] 4 beads, fixed together by oxidation.
18897F	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper objects. [A] a pin, straight and with rounded head (type 8), [B-C] two bracelets and [D-G] four finger rings, together with [H] 4 beads, fixed together by oxidation.
18897G	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper objects. [A] a pin, straight and with rounded head (type 8), [B-C] two bracelets and [D-G] four finger rings, together with [H] 4 beads, fixed together by oxidation.
18897H	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper objects. [A] a pin, straight and with rounded head (type 8), [B-C] two bracelets and [D-G] four finger rings, together with [H] 4 beads, fixed together by oxidation.
19102	35-1-479	(none)	(none)	Copper pin, broken. Having for a head the head of a horned demon or god.
19101	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper pin, part of. Having near the head end the figure of a seated calf.
19100	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper pin. The head in the form of a female head with elaborately dressed hair. The point anciently broken.