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)
19971	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. A few minute tubes of green glazed frit.
19435	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. carnelian balls and short date-shaped, lapis balls and balls of black and white marble.
19944	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Carnelian cylinders and 1 long faceted double conoid.
19945	35-1-71	(none)	(none)	Beads. Carnelian cylinders and rings, lapis ditto, 2 large chalcedony flattened ovals (one broken and ground down to half).
20089	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Carnelian cylinders [crossed out] rings.
20089	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Carnelian cylinders [crossed out] rings.
20089	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Carnelian cylinders [crossed out] rings.
19862	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Carnelian cylinders, date-shaped and lapis balls
20028	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Carnelian date shaped and double conoid (long) and lapis rings and cylinders.
19430	(none)	1935,0112.86	(none)	Beads. Carnelian rings and 1 tube, lapis balls, black and white marble balls, 1 quartzite lozenge-shape, 4 date-shaped red chalcedony (?)
19861	35-1-74	(none)	(none)	Beads. Carnelian rings and a few carnelian and lapis cylinders
20027	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Carnelian rings and a few lapis ovals.
19950	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Carnelian rings, a few lapis, shell rings, long shell ovals (flat) and large shell and hematite rings.
20031	35-1-87	(none)	(none)	Beads. Carnelian rings, balls and cylinders. Lapis balls.
19973	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Carnelian rings, large shell tubes (decayed) and rings, hematite rings.
19859	35-1-90	(none)	(none)	Beads. Carnelian rings, medium size (worn in 2 parallel strings)
19972	35-1-89	(none)	(none)	Beads. Carnelian rings, small.
19863	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Carnelian rings.
19864	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Carnelian rings.
19865	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Carnelian rings.
19868	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Carnelian rings.
19943	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Carnelian rings.
19946	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Carnelian rings.
20030	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Carnelian rings.
19860	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Carnelian rings. Small, and a few lapis