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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 18909 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay tablet. |
| 18910 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay tablet (edges much damaged). |
| 18911 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay tablet. Distorted while wet; only one side inscribed. | |
| 18912 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper vase. Part of rim and neck missing. Type _. |
| 18913 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cyl;inder seal. Dark steatite, grey. Seated Ningal, 2 standing figures, a bird and a scorpion, etc. |
| 18915 | (none) | 1935,0112.53 | (none) | Cylinder seal. Quartzite. Criss-cross marking. |
| 18916 | (none) | 1935,0112.48 | (none) | Cylinder seal. Greenish-grey steatite. Seated deity and two standing figures, and a tree. |
| 18917 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Mottled lapis lazuli. Two registers: above, hero and fighting animals; below, heroes fighting animals. |
| 18918 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Brown steatite. Carinated type./ A hero bestriding a bull; a star; a second hero on one knee throws a lion over his shoulder. Two columns of inscriptions supported byb a goat: water below. Remarkably fine cutting. |
| 18920 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Mottled steatite. God in a shrine of which each door is guarded by an attendant: two columns of inscription. Inscription uncertain (C.J.G.) |
| 18921 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Grey steatite. Men fighting animals. |
| 18926 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Two figures seated and drinking through tubes, and a standing attendant. |
| 18928 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stamp seal. Grey hematite. Square, with tubular handle. A seated figure to whom an attendant offers a spouted libation vase. Very curious cutting, especially in the faces. |
| 18931A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A and C] gold earrings, a pair small lunate type, solid. [B] Beads: carnelian rings and date-shaped, crystal date-shaped, 2 gold-plated copper balls, agate barrel, chalcedony date-shaped. |
| 18932 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads: large steatite barrel, carnelian double conoids, date-shaped and balls; agate barrels and date-shaped; crystal date-shaped; carnelian tubular, long steatite, long date-shaped, engraved paste rings. Restrung in original order. [drawing] |
| 18933 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads: lapis lazuli diamonds and cylinder and ring. (a few only) |
| 18934 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper axe. Type S. 6. |
| 18936 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper reticule. |
| 18938 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper knife blade. Type 7a. |
| 18939 | (none) | 1935,0112.23 | (none) | Copper knife blade. Type 3. | |
| 18940 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper knife blade. Type 7a. |
| 18941 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper axe. blade. Type S. 13 |
| 18942A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A] Beads. Carnelian tubular and rings; paste date-shaped, steatite fly and frog amulets; fluted balls. Arbitrarily restrung. [B] Also a silver bracelet, 3 coils of plain wire. |
| 18943A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Group: (A) Gold earring, small lunate type. (B) Silver finger ring, plain wire hoop. (C) Silver hair ring, 2 coils of plain wire. (D) Gold twisted ribbon fillet, with hole at each end. (E) Beads: lapis diamonds and tubes, crystal rings, silver diamonds and balls and small blue glaze cylinders. (F) Copper pin, type 8. (G) Copper reticule. |
| 18944 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Gold earrings, two lunate rings, small type, intertwined. |
| 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.