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      

Objects: PJ Export: JSON - XML - CSV

Object U Number Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) Museum Number (BM Registration Number) Museum Number (UPM B-number) Description (Catalog Card)
19215 (none) (none) (none) Clay model boat. 4 seats. High stem and bow.
19216 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Shell. The surface partly decayed. Two registers of fighting animals.
19217 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite, carniated. Hero fighting animals.
19218 (none) (none) (none) Gold earring. Small lunate type, solid metal.
19219A 35-1-433 (none) (none) Copper chisels. (A) type 2a. (B) Type 1b. (C) Type 1b: with fragments of wooden handle.
19220 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. White limestone. Type 47. The rim slightly nicked.
19221 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. Veined calcite. Type 16a. (in fragments).
19222 35-1-596 (none) (none) Stone vase. White calcite. Type 64. (in fragments).
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.
19230 35-1-3 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Shell. Fightling animals and a spread eagle over a tree.
19231 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Carnleian rings and two steatite(?) barrels.
19233 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Carnelian rings and one shell tube.
19234 35-1-85 (none) (none) Carnelian rings.
19235 35-1-68 (none) (none) Beads. Four shell tubes (one borken); four carnelian and four crystal rings.
19236 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Carnelian ball, date-shaped and cylindrical, lapis facetted date-shaped and date-shaped, shell square, shell double conoids.
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.

Media: PJ Export: JSON - XML - CSV

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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Child Locations

Pit X - Pit Y