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 |
Files
| Object | U Number | Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) | Museum Number (BM Registration Number) | Museum Number (UPM B-number) | Description (Catalog Card) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19850 | 35-1-79 | (none) | (none) | Beads. 6 hematite and 1 red stone. Large ring beads. | |
| 18740 | 35-1-78 | (none) | (none) | Beads: of glazed frit and glass paste mostly yellow and green, many of the beads being green with a yellow tip; these are pear-shaped or date-shaped; there are also plain yellow ring beads, a lapis scaraboid and a green-glazed frit scarab, and yellow date-shaped beads. | |
| 18880 | 35-1-77 | (none) | (none) | Beads. Gold double conoids, thin and poor, carnelian double conoids, rings, diamonds, and one ribbed date-shaped, and one pear-shaped with bleached pattern, [drawing] agate tubular and date-shaped, and lapis date-shaped. 49 in all. Restrung mostly in the original order. | |
| 19180 | 35-1-76 | (none) | (none) | Beads. Lapis and carnelian rings; lapis tubes; lapis and carnelian truncated triangles. | |
| 19861 | 35-1-74 | (none) | (none) | Beads. Carnelian rings and a few carnelian and lapis cylinders | |
| 19127 | 35-1-73 | (none) | (none) | Beads. Carnelian rings and balls and very small glaze balls and tubes. | |
 | 19945 | 35-1-71 | (none) | (none) | Beads. Carnelian cylinders and rings, lapis ditto, 2 large chalcedony flattened ovals (one broken and ground down to half). |
| 19075 | 35-1-7 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Two registers: in each, a row of animals, the rows inverted. |
| 19853 | 35-1-69 | (none) | (none) | Beads. Shell cylinders and large shell and hematite barrels or rings. | |
| 19235 | 35-1-68 | (none) | (none) | Beads. Four shell tubes (one borken); four carnelian and four crystal rings. | |
| 19979 | 35-1-663 | (none) | (none) | Clay vase. Painted red all over, but with paint mostly gone. JN | |
| 19727 | 35-1-651 | (none) | (none) | Stone vase. 'alabaster'. JN 26. |
| 19594 | 35-1-639 | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Basic diorite. Type JN 19 | |
| 19997 | 35-1-638 | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. White limestone. JN 6a | |
| 19626 | 35-1-637 | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Diorite. Type JN 50 | |
| 19386 | 35-1-636 | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Diorite. Type JN 12 |
| 19534 | 35-1-633 | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. White limestone. Type ... (in fragments) | |
| 19291 | 35-1-632 | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Basic diorite. Type J.N. 20. | |
| 19091 | 35-1-63 | (none) | (none) | Conch-shell. Cut as a lamp with bird's head engraved at the top of the opening. | |
| 19886 | 35-1-627 | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Diorite. JN 5A | |
| 19296 | 35-1-614 | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Basic diorite. Type J.N. 3 |
| 19464 | 35-1-609 | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. White limestone. Type JN 10 | |
| 20075 | 35-1-608 | (none) | (none) | Clay vase. Grey ware (smothered). Imitation of stone form. JN 28 (59) In fragments = JN 35 (clay) new | |
| 19702 | 35-1-607 | (none) | (none) | Stone vase. Diorite. In fragments |
| 19465 | 35-1-606 | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Dark steatite. Type JN 6 |
| 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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Sibling Locations
Burnt Burial - Larsa Graves - PG/B - Pit A - Pit B - Pit C - Pit D - Pit E - Pit G - Pit H - Pit W - Pit Z - Private Graves 1001-1100 - Private Graves 1101-1200 - Private Graves 1201-1300 - Private Graves 1301-1400 - Private Graves 1401-1500 - Private Graves 1501-1600 - Private Graves 1601-1700 - Private Graves 1701-1800 - Private Graves 1801-1850 - Private Graves 501-600 - Private Graves 601-700 - Private Graves 701-800 - Private Graves 801-900 - Private Graves 901-1000 - Private Graves Area | PGA - Royal Cemetery | PG1931 - Royal Cemetery | PG1932 - Seal Impression Strata | SIS - TTA - TTD - TTE - TTF - TTG
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Context
Ur > Royal Cemetery | PG > PJ
References
Woolley, L. . (1955) Ur Excavations IV; The Early Periods, Oxford: Oxford University Press.