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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)
15123A	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A] Silver tumbler. Inverted over [B] a baked clay spouted pot. Tumbler in poor condition & part missing - distorted. Type 531. Not in catalog. [drawing]
15137	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone bowl. White translucent calcite. Thick coating of bitumen (c. 10mm thick) ran round top of vase down to shoulder. Most of rim missing.
15139	31-16-464	(none)	(none)	Stone bowl. White limestone. Broken.
15140	31-16-373	(none)	(none)	Stone bowl. Dark green basic diorite. Type XIII. JN38. [drawing 2:5]
15144	31-16-212	(none)	(none)	Baked clay vase. Light drab. Portion of rim missing. Nicked round shoulder. Type: CCCXLIII. Not in catalog.
15163	31-17-13	(none)	(none)	Lead tumbler. Part of top missing, hole in side. Distorted. Not in catalog. [drawing 2:5]
15758B	(none)	(none)	(none)	2 vases. [A] one of baked clay, light drab - [B] a spouted pot covered by [C] an inverted lead tumbler. Type I)XXXI.
15758A	(none)	(none)	(none)	2 vases. [A] one of baked clay, light drab - [B] a spouted pot covered by [C] an inverted lead tumbler. Type I)XXXI.
15758C	(none)	(none)	(none)	2 vases. [A] one of baked clay, light drab - [B] a spouted pot covered by [C] an inverted lead tumbler. Type I)XXXI.
15778	31-17-12	(none)	(none)	Baked clay vase. Spouted. Light drab. Covered by a lead tumbler. Clay vase is badly broken. Type same as 15758.
18647	33-35-97	(none)	(none)	Lead tumbler. Distorted. [The following note is an addition to original text] Not in cat. Vol IV.
18727	(none)	(none)	(none)	Object of unbaked clay. flat oval base 013 x 008 rising with fairly vertical sides to a convex top in the middle of which is an oval depression: it might be an exaggerated copy of a plano-convex brick : total ht 007 In the middle of one side, in the top and close to the edge of the depression, is a large carnelian bead impressed in the clay: below this & to one side of it is a cowrie (?) shell of which the base only shows, making a sort of crescent. [drawing]
18728	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Female figure, full face with long sleeves and heavily flounced skirt, standing and holding with each hand in front of her breast a dumb-bell shaped object.
18729	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Very dark steatite. A spread eagle and two small birds beneath a star. Bould rough cutting.
18730	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Much worn. Figures in crude style.
18734	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay tablet.
18735	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay tablet.
18736	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay tablet. Corner missing.
18737	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay tablet. Fragment of (with date).
18738	(none)	(none)	(none)	Seal impressions on black clay; fragmentary, but some from the same seal.
18739	(none)	(none)	(none)	Bone pin. Tip missing. The head in the form of an open human hand. [drawing 1:1]
18740	35-1-78	(none)	(none)	Beads: of glazed frit and glass paste mostly yellow and green, many of the beads being green with a yellow tip; these are pear-shaped or date-shaped; there are also plain yellow ring beads, a lapis scaraboid and a green-glazed frit scarab, and yellow date-shaped beads.
18741	(none)	(none)	(none)	Ear-stud. Dark greenish-grey stone (jasper?) [drawing]
18742	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay cone. Fragment of. With inscription on shaft (not on base).
18743	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay tablet. Complete.