Woolley's Field Note Cards | Woolley's Field Note Cards
Omeka ID: | 5465 |
Transcription: |
Pg 1237 B In - E corner, at 190 below - flow o - "press" There was a broken pot, large & o corner wall, on or in which had been a fire; it has a very heavy deposit o burnt ash. By - ashes with found a large saddle green & a rubbing stone o - pumice-like stone. -Layers o ashes opened over whole pit's mouth but- deposit- corner was quite distinct & much thicker- above lay a bit higher up. Below- layer o ashes there as a unmistakably smashed floor o yellow mud = this lay 225 below - 'press' & 025 above - floor o Pg 1237 - floorsloping v slightly up w - sill lending to - death pit. |
Omeka Label: | Royal Cemetary Notes 1130-1237_p263 |
BM Page Number: | 263 |
BM Volume: | 14 |
Media Title: | Woolley's Field Note Cards |
Page Number: | 263 |
BM PG Number: | PG1237 |
BM Archive Number: | 194 |
Omeka Tags: | PG1237, Royal Cemetery |
Omeka Type: | 28 |
Grave # Range: | 1130-1237 |
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Location | Context Title | Context Description | Description (Modern) |
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PG/1237 | Woolley called this the 'Great Death Pit' because it is the largest of all the death pits in the royal cemetery. He found 74 bodies within but did not find a built chamber, an aspect he believed essential to royal tombs. Woolley declared the chamber must have been completely looted away and pointed to small amounts of rubble as evidence of this, but in fact the large size of this death pit and the particular wealth displayed by Body 61 may indicate that the primary burial was among the attendants in this case. | (none) |
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