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      

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Object U Number Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) Museum Number (BM Registration Number) Museum Number (UPM B-number) Description (Catalog Card)
18956 (none) (none) (none) Stone vase. White calcite. Type 80.
18957 (none) (none) (none) Stone vase. White calcite. Type 80.
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.
18959 (none) (none) (none) Stone vase. White calcite. Most of rim missing. Type 78, a roughly made and rather angular variant.
18960A (none) (none) (none) (A) Beads: small gold balls, small carnelian balls, lapis diamonds, crystal rings, paste balls, these restrung as far as possible in original order. There were also small silver balls too perised for stringing. (B) Gold earring, small lunate type (the silver part has perished).
18961 (none) (none) (none) Copper tumbler. Type _.
18962 (none) (none) (none) Beads: small string of lapis diamonds, carnelian rings and tubular (one square in section, one round), steatite cylinder and diamond.
18963 (none) (none) (none) Gold earring, small lunate type.
18964 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Seated deity and two standing figures, and two columns of inscription. Inscription: Ur-ses-GIR, son of Ur-girenna (C.J.G.)
18965A (none) (none) (none) (A) beads; small gold balls, plain and ribbed, small carnelian balls, 2 carnelian date-shaped, 2 tubular and one flattened cone with belached design; one lapis ball. [drawing] (B) Gold earring, small lunate type.
18969 (none) (none) (none) Copper cauldron. In pretty good condition. The bottom has been strengthened by adding a piece of copper on the outside, which is rivetted on. Type 49
18971 (none) (none) (none) Earring. Gold and copper. A lunate earring of each metal intertwined.
18972 (none) 1935,0112.38 (none) Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Seated deity and 3 standing figures.
18973 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. One seated and 3 standing gods.
18975 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Lapis. Bull carrying a shrine, with worshippers, gods and animals.
18977 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Pale mottled steatite. Seated deity and 3 standing figures.
18978 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Seated deity and 3 standing figures.
18979 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Hunter and four animals; a column of inscription.
18980 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Shell. Geometric design.
18982 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Two hereos fighting gazelles.
18983 (none) 1935,0112.37 (none) Cylinder seal. Lapis. Two registers: above, banquet scene with two seated figures drinking through tubes; below, birds?
18984 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Brown steatite. Hunters and animals. Poor and much worn. Photo (not worth taking)
18985 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Light yellowish steatite. God in a shrine(?), attendant, and palm tree.
18986 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Two registers: above, standing figures; below animals.
18987 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Shell. Two heroes fighting animals.

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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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Pit X - Pit Y

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References

Woolley, L. . (1955) Ur Excavations IV; The Early Periods, Oxford: Oxford University Press.