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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)
19011	35-1-191	(none)	(none)	Stone bowl. White calcite. Type 54.
19271	35-1-190	(none)	(none)	Stone bowl. White calcite. Type 28.
19415	35-1-189	(none)	(none)	Stone bowl. White calcite. Type JN 39
19414B	35-1-189	(none)	(none)	Stone vase. White calcite. Type JN 27
19414A	35-1-188	(none)	(none)	Stone vase. White calcite. Type JN 27
20059	35-1-186	(none)	(none)	Stone vase. White calcite. Miniature. JN 28
19429	35-1-185	(none)	(none)	Miniature stone vase. 'alabaster'. Type 28.
19640B	35-1-184	(none)	(none)	Stone vases. 'alabaster'. JN 28
19407	35-1-182b	(none)	(none)	Stone vase. 'alabaster' Type JN 26
19897	35-1-182	(none)	(none)	Stone vase. 'alabaster'. JN 28
19406	35-1-181	(none)	(none)	Stone vase. 'alabaster' Type JN 26
19405	35-1-180	(none)	(none)	Stone vase. (alabaster) Type JN 26
19974	35-1-18	(none)	(none)	Stamp seal. [drawing 1:1]
19828	35-1-179	(none)	(none)	Stone bowl. White calcite. JN 26
19270	35-1-178	(none)	(none)	Stone bowl. Basic diorite. Type J.N. 26.
19505	35-1-177	(none)	(none)	Stone vase. 'alabaster' JN 26
19836	35-1-176	(none)	(none)	Stone bowl. White calcite. JN 26
19283	35-1-175	(none)	(none)	Stone vase. Type 26.
19767	35-1-174	(none)	(none)	Stone bowl. Coarse limestone. JN 53
18924	35-1-17	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Brown steatite. Two heroes fighting animals.
18922	35-1-16	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Black steatite. A god driving a chariot drawn by a winged gryphon(?); between the wings rises a goddess armed with a bow, in front of it is another god. One column of inscription. Inscription: Ur-gis-me-e (C.J.G.)
19572	35-1-153	(none)	(none)	A hoop of gold wire partly round and partly square in section, the square parts twisted in the middle to produce a cable effect.
18994	35-1-14	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Two hunters fighting a lion.
18948	35-1-13, 35-1-13	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Standing god with two worshippers; two columns of inscription. Inscription: Ilu-su(?)-ir, son of Dudu (C.J.G.)
18854	35-1-127	(none)	(none)	Leg and foot of a statue. Clay painted red. Preserved from below the calf downwards. The foot seems to be wearing a shoe of coarsely knitted woo(?) The leg has been broken at the ankle in antiquity and mended with bitumen.