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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 19224 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. White limestone. Type 47. |
| 19225 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. White limestone. Type 47. |
| 19226 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. White limestone. Type 15a. |
| 19227 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. White limestone. Type 47. |
| 19228 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone vase. White calcite. Type 61a. |
| 19229 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. White limestone. Type 47. |
| 19231 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Carnleian rings and two steatite(?) barrels. |
| 19232 | (none) | 1935,0112.83 | (none) | Beads. Carnelian rings, one cylindrical, and a few lapis balls. |
| 19233 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Carnelian rings and one shell tube. |
| 19236 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Carnelian ball, date-shaped and cylindrical, lapis facetted date-shaped and date-shaped, shell square, shell double conoids. |
| 19237 | (none) | 1935,0112.84 | (none) | Beads. Carnelian cylinders, shell cylinders and lapis rings. |
| 19238 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone vase. White calcite. Type 54. |
| 19239 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Lapis double concoids and one carnelian cylinder. |
| 19240 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. One carnelian tube, one crystal pear pendant, small paste ringed tubes, lapis ovals. |
| 19241 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Grey steatite; straight-sided; inscribed; piece missing from rim. |
| 19242 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Black shale? Men and animals. |
| 19243 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Steatite; broken and rivetted in antiquity, part missing. Type 51. |
| 19244 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone vase. White limestone, decayed. Type 60a. Fixed in the mouth of a copper bowl, type 3. |
| 19245 | (none) | 1935,0112.42 | (none) | Cylinder seal. Steatite; part of the side chipped off. |
| 19246 | (none) | 1935,0112.26 | (none) | Copper Prong. Circular-section shaft from which rise two curved prongs (not of the same length) square in section. A square-section tang was fitted into a wooden handle encased in thin copper. | |
| 19248 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Very long shells, four tubes and one oval frontlet pierced at each end. |
| 19249 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Balls of frit, originally blue-glzed, now mostly bleached, a few carnelian and one steatite rings. |
| 19253 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Large carnelian rings and small shell rings and spacer. |
| 19254 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Very small paste rings and oblong spacers for 3 ranks of beads (see field notes). |
| 19255 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Carnelian rings and a few lapis beads, small balls and flattened ovals. |
| 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.