PJ
| 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 |
Files
| Object | U Number | Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) | Museum Number (BM Registration Number) | Museum Number (UPM B-number) | Description (Catalog Card) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 18834 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay tablet. Damaged. |
| 18835 | (none) | 1935,0112.74 | (none) | Clay jar-sealing. Burnt black. With 3 incomplete seal-impressions shewing presentaiton sceneand inscriptions. mark of jar neck inside. |
| 18836 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Small shells, pierced; carnelian cylindrical, carnelian ring; marble diamond; steatite discoid; chert (?) date-shaped, double conoid; white frit from amulet. A very poor lot. |
| 18838 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay foundation cone. Unusually samll, inscribed on the stem only. Tip missing and a chip off the base but only about 2 signs damaged and the text otherwise complete. |
| 18839 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay tablet. Baked: intact. | |
| 18840 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay tablet. Baked: intact. | |
| 18841 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay tablet. Baked, complete. | |
| 18842 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay tablet. Baked, intact. | |
| 18843 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay tablet. |
| 18844 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay tablet. Chipped at one corner, only 1 sign missing. |
| 18845 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay tablet. Complete but text worn. | |
| 18846 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Gold earring. Lunate type, small, very thin metal, pale color electrum. |
| 18847 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Grey steatite. Seated deity and two standing figures, and two columns of inscription. Much worn. |
| 18848 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Fragment of stone bowl. Steatite. Decorated in relief. [drawing 1:1] |
| 18849 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Hard black steatite. Worshipper and minor god before Nin-gal; behind her, a small figure of a god standing on an animal. Photo +. |
| 18850 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Die. Of grey pottery; with numbers marked by pin pricks. [drawing] |
| 18851 | 35-1-31 | (none) | (none) | Amulet. Blue glazed frit. Im-dugud (?) figure. The blue glaze has perished on the front but is well preserved behind. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 18852 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Terracotta relief. Seated goddess with horned cap and long flounced dress seated facing right with her feet on a lion. Top corner of plaque broken but the figure intact. |
| 18853 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Terracotta relief, fragment. Woman standing, full face, wearing heavy cape and coat with long hanging cuffs: her hands clasped in front. Broken away below the waist. |
| 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. | |
| 18855 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Miniature clay vase. [drawing 4:5] |
| 18856 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay tablet. Baked. Covered with very fine writing; about half the text on one side is flaked away, the other side intact. |
| 18857 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay tablet. Baked. intact. | |
| 18858 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay tablet. Baked. one side much damaged, on intact. | |
| 18859 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay tablet. One face shipped. |
| 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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Sibling Locations
Burnt Burial - Larsa Graves - PG/B - Pit A - Pit B - Pit C - Pit D - Pit E - Pit G - Pit H - Pit W - Pit Z - Private Graves 1001-1100 - Private Graves 1101-1200 - Private Graves 1201-1300 - Private Graves 1301-1400 - Private Graves 1401-1500 - Private Graves 1501-1600 - Private Graves 1601-1700 - Private Graves 1701-1800 - Private Graves 1801-1850 - Private Graves 501-600 - Private Graves 601-700 - Private Graves 701-800 - Private Graves 801-900 - Private Graves 901-1000 - Private Graves Area | PGA - Royal Cemetery | PG1931 - Royal Cemetery | PG1932 - Seal Impression Strata | SIS - TTA - TTD - TTE - TTF - TTG
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Context
Ur > Royal Cemetery | PG > PJ
References
Woolley, L. . (1955) Ur Excavations IV; The Early Periods, Oxford: Oxford University Press.