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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)
19145A	35-1-483	(none)	(none)	Copper pins. Type 1.
19213B	35-1-482	(none)	(none)	Group: (A) Gold double conoids, lapis double conoids. (B) Copper pin, Type 1, with lapis ball head capped with gold; broken. (C) [Not assigned] (D) Limestone bowl. Type 47. (E) White calcite bowl. Type 54: imperfect.
19146	35-1-480	(none)	(none)	Copper pins. Type 3.
19102	35-1-479	(none)	(none)	Copper pin, broken. Having for a head the head of a horned demon or god.
19219C	35-1-476	(none)	(none)	Copper chisels. (A) type 2a. (B) Type 1b. (C) Type 1b: with fragments of wooden handle.
19152	35-1-473	(none)	(none)	Bronze arrowheads. Type 1.
18903E	35-1-437	(none)	(none)	Copper group: (A) Chisel. Type 2a (B) Chisel. Type 4a. (C) Saw (the tip missing) (D) Awl (broken). (E) Bowl, hemispherical; cracked and slightly crushed.
18970	35-1-435	(none)	(none)	Copper razors. A pair corroded together; one complete, one fragmentary. [drawing 1:1]
19494	35-1-434	(none)	(none)	Copper mirror? a flat disk of thin metal with a short projecting tang for handle attachment.
19219A	35-1-433	(none)	(none)	Copper chisels. (A) type 2a. (B) Type 1b. (C) Type 1b: with fragments of wooden handle.
18937	35-1-432	(none)	(none)	Copper axe-blade. Type S. 13,
19079	35-1-430	(none)	(none)	Bronze spearhead. Type _.
19744	35-1-43	(none)	(none)	Alabaster lamp.
19149D	35-1-429	(none)	(none)	[A-D] Copper knives. Type 7a.
19149B	35-1-428	(none)	(none)	[A-B] Copper knives. Type 7a.
19149C	35-1-427	(none)	(none)	[A-C] Copper knives. Type 7a.
19149A	35-1-426	(none)	(none)	[A-C] Copper knives. Type 7a.
19150A	35-1-424	(none)	(none)	Copper knives. Type 5.
19151A	35-1-423	(none)	(none)	Copper knives. Type 6.
18935	35-1-422	(none)	(none)	Copper knife-blade. Type 7b. good condition.
19428	35-1-42	(none)	(none)	Kohl-pot. 'alabaster'. rectangular ram[?]-shaped on 4 short legs, rope moulding along shoulder : 2 cylinder receptacles.
19139A	35-1-419	(none)	(none)	[A-C] Bronze axes. Type A. 1
19139B	35-1-418	(none)	(none)	[A-B] Bronze axes. Type A. 1
19140C	35-1-417.2	(none)	(none)	[A-E] Bronze axes. Type A. 3
19140E	35-1-417.1	(none)	(none)	[A-E] Bronze axes. Type A. 3