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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)
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.
19572	35-1-153	(none)	(none)	A hoop of gold wire partly round and partly square in section, the square parts twisted in the middle to produce a cable effect.
19744	35-1-43	(none)	(none)	Alabaster lamp.
19770	(none)	(none)	(none)	Alabaster lamp.
19745	(none)	(none)	(none)	Alabaster lamp. In the form of a shell. The five projections serving as spouts. On the under side at one end is carved a bat's head.
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]
18788	(none)	(none)	(none)	Animal's head. Terracotta. modeled in the round, partly with snow-man technique. [drawing 1:1]
15144	31-16-212	(none)	(none)	Baked clay vase. Light drab. Portion of rim missing. Nicked round shoulder. Type: CCCXLIII. Not in catalog.
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.
18862	(none)	1935,0112.57	(none)	Bead, half of: flattened date-shaped, carnelian, artifcially bleached white all over (the bleaching has penetrated deep into the stone) and then etched with a black pattern. [drawing 1:1]
19577	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads 3 very long shell tubes, shell cylinders, small shells pierced, large black hematite barrels, carnelian rings.
18901	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. 3 large crystal flattened date-shaped; 1 limestone ditto; 1 agate barrel; 3 steatite rings.
19249	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Balls of frit, originally blue-glzed, now mostly bleached, a few carnelian and one steatite rings.
19236	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Carnelian ball, date-shaped and cylindrical, lapis facetted date-shaped and date-shaped, shell square, shell double conoids.
19094	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Carnelian balls and lapis double conoids.
19251	35-1-94	(none)	(none)	Beads. Carnelian cylinders, quartzite cylinders, lapis cylinders, balls and ovals.
19237	(none)	1935,0112.84	(none)	Beads. Carnelian cylinders, shell cylinders and lapis rings.
19185	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Carnelian date-shaped (short): lapis date-shaeped, double conoid and one flattened cylinder.
19255	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Carnelian rings and a few lapis beads, small balls and flattened ovals.
19127	35-1-73	(none)	(none)	Beads. Carnelian rings and balls and very small glaze balls and tubes.
19182	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Carnelian rings and balls; lapis double conoids, ovals and tubes; lapis diamond (large) and one large carnelian.
19203	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Carnelian rings and one flattened rectangular, small tubes, ovals and date-shaped. These were strung together in groups, about 8 of each together.
19233	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Carnelian rings and one shell tube.
19256	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Carnelian rings, black steatite rings (large), shell and black steatite tubes(large), calcite button, very small shell (or paste) rings.