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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)
18990	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads: one very long carnelian tubular, carnelian date-shaped and rings, lapis balls, chalcedony barrel. crystal ring.
19035	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads: small lapis barrels, balls, and double conoids; carnelian rings, barrels and tubes, two of the latter with white bleached patterns of concentric circles.
19028	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads: small paste lentoids.
18962	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads: small string of lapis diamonds, carnelian rings and tubular (one square in section, one round), steatite cylinder and diamond.
19051	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads: two or three carnelian barrels; lapis tubes, 4 small balls or barrels; and small rings of glazed frit; three lapis frog amulets.
19053B	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads; (A) A set of lapis triangular spacers from a small dog-collar (silver spacers decayed); (B) A long string of carnelian and lapis beads (and some silver) balls, tubes and rings.
19053A	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads; (A) A set of lapis triangular spacers from a small dog-collar (silver spacers decayed); (B) A long string of carnelian and lapis beads (and some silver) balls, tubes and rings.
18953	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads; carnelian and lapis date-shaped (large), carnelian double conoid and barrel, and rings, and small lapis cylindrical; one agate date-shaped. Restrung in original order.
18958	(none)	1935,0112.82	(none)	Beads; paste cylinders, small, carnelian double conoids and barrels and diamonds and date-shaped; lapis double conoid and ball, quartzite rhomboid, large. One carnelian has bleached pattern. Restrung in original order.
18954	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads; small ribbed gold balls; carnelian balls; one flat date-shaped paste.
18739	(none)	(none)	(none)	Bone pin. Tip missing. The head in the form of an open human hand. [drawing 1:1]
19544	(none)	(none)	(none)	Bowl. White calcite in fragments
18998	(none)	(none)	(none)	Bronze adze. Type 1.
19152	35-1-473	(none)	(none)	Bronze arrowheads. Type 1.
19153	(none)	(none)	(none)	Bronze arrowheads. Type 2.
19199	(none)	(none)	(none)	Bronze axe. Type _ (new type for the cemetery). The socket decorated with rope pattern.
19198	(none)	1935,0112.95	(none)	Bronze harpoon. Arrow type 4a.
18871	(none)	(none)	(none)	Bronze situla. Very good condition.
19207	(none)	(none)	(none)	Bronze spearhead. Type 5b.
19079	35-1-430	(none)	(none)	Bronze spearhead. Type _.
19350	(none)	1935,0112.105	(none)	Brown 'smoked' ware. Imitation of stone. (new) JN 22 [much marked through and corrected on card]
19234	35-1-85	(none)	(none)	Carnelian rings.
18786	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay foundation cone, lower part of. Inscribed on stem only, 12 columns.
18829	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay arm of a statuette or doll pierced to be fixed to the body (and to move?) hand modeled, with traces of light red paint.
18805	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay bowl, fragment of. Of very highly burnished ware, black face inside and out, brown body. [drawing] 269