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      

Objects: PJ Export: JSON - XML - CSV

Object U Number Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) Museum Number (BM Registration Number) Museum Number (UPM B-number) Description (Catalog Card)
20090 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. White Limestone [crossed out] White calcite. Type
20090 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. White Limestone [crossed out] White calcite. Type
20090 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. White Limestone [crossed out] White calcite. Type
19378 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. White limestone - roughtly carved with two band of leaves [2:5 drawing]
19377 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. White limestone (fine). Type JN 41
19723 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. White limestone (coarse). JN 3.
19328 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. White calcite. Type JNG 26.
19415 35-1-189 (none) (none) Stone bowl. White calcite. Type JN 39
19321 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. White calcite. Type JN 29
19314 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. White calcite. Type JN 22
19543 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. White calcite. Type 54
19457 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. White calcite. Type 48
19458 35-1-556 (none) (none) Stone bowl. White calcite. Type 48
19924 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. White calcite. Type 17
19475 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. White calcite. Type ...
19887 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. White calcite. JN 40
19828 35-1-179 (none) (none) Stone bowl. White calcite. JN 26
19836 35-1-176 (none) (none) Stone bowl. White calcite. JN 26
19883 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. White calcite. JN 17
19434 35-1-525 (none) (none) Stone bowl. Veined quartzite. Type 24
19460 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. Veined calcite. Type 9
19433 35-1-583 (none) (none) Stone bowl. Veined calcite. Type 19 d (in fragments) Broken and rivetted in antiquity.
19425 35-1-526 (none) (none) Stone bowl. Veined calcite. Open shallow lines[?] Type
19402 35-1-205 (none) (none) Stone bowl. Type JN 42
19473 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. Steatite. Type ...

Media: PJ Export: JSON - XML - CSV

Media Media Title Title Label Author Omeka Label
Ur Excavations IV; The Early Periods Ur Excavations IV; The Early Periods 1955 Woolley, L. (none)
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Child Locations

Pit X - Pit Y