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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)
19147B	35-1-500	(none)	(none)	Copper pins. Type 7.
19147C	35-1-501	(none)	(none)	Copper pins. Type 7.
19147D	35-1-502	(none)	(none)	Copper pins. Type 7.
19147E	35-1-503	(none)	(none)	Copper pins. Type 7.
19144A	35-1-497	(none)	(none)	Copper pins. Type 8.
19144B	35-1-487	(none)	(none)	Copper pins. Type 8.
19144C	35-1-505	(none)	(none)	Copper pins. Type 8.
19987	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper pot. A spouted bowl. Type
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.
18861	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper razor. [drawing 1:1]
19497	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper razor? Thin metal with tang
18970	35-1-435	(none)	(none)	Copper razors. A pair corroded together; one complete, one fragmentary. [drawing 1:1]
18936	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper reticule.
19937	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper spoon. With long slender handle and flat blade.
18988	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper Tool. Complete. Type: Pl. 230, U.12696.
18961	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper tumbler. Type _.
18912	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper vase. Part of rim and neck missing. Type _.
19123	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper vase. Type 120.
19133A	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper vessels. \ [A] Bowl. Type 4; Inside it [B] a vase. Type 69
19133B	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper vessels. \ [A] Bowl. Type 4; Inside it [B] a vase. Type 69
18890	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper wire handle. One strand of what looks like properly drawn wire, twisted on itself. [drawing 1:1]
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?)
18913	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cyl;inder seal. Dark steatite, grey. Seated Ningal, 2 standing figures, a bird and a scorpion, etc.
19197	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylidner seal. Shell. Partly decayed. Hero fighting animals.
19242	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Black shale? Men and animals.