17847A
| Description (Catalog Card): | Tablets. A set of about 15. Found together in a (broken) clay pot in the house ruins. With them was part of a cuttlefish bone.1 |
| Find Context (Catalog Card): | PG 1932 |
| Material (Catalog Card): | Clay2 |
| Text Genre: | Administrative and Legal >> Sale |
| Dates Referenced: | Abi-sare 3 |
| [1] Woolley's description |
| [2] Material as described by Woolley |
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| Location | Context Title | Context Description | Description (Modern) |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Royal Cemetery | PG1932 | In season 10 Woolley had completed the Royal Cemetery volume (UE2) but he continued to expand the Royal Cemetery area and find more graves. Continuing the PG numbers would be confusing since they would not be included in the main publication of the cemetery. Thus, he shifted his numbering to reflect the year in which he was digging, beginning very late in 1931. When January arrived, he shifted his numbers to PG1932. However, he had stopped the normal Private Grave sequence at around number 1850 (some PG/18xx numbers were renamed PG1931 or PG1932 numbers) and 1932 is easily mistaken for an individual grave when it is actually a series of graves from late in the excavations. Even more confusing, Woolley often shortened the 1932 number simply to PG32, which is easily mistaken for PG/32, a grave in Trial Trench E. The general abbreviation PG1932 or PG32 refers to the 1931-1932 Royal Cemetery investigation, revisiting the area along the western side of the Mausoleum of the Ur III kings (area BC). Some of these graves are from the Isin-Larsa/Old Babylonian period and are likely associated with House 30. PG1932 graves were therefore often renamed for publication to LG/xx (Larsa Grave). Objects that were collected from the area but not associated with a particular grave were given the generic PG1932 or PG32 abbreviation. Specific graves were given additional numbers in the sequence PG1932/xx or PG32/xx. The highest number noted in this sequence is PG32/80. | (none) |
| No. 13 Church Lane | Part of the house had been cut away for the building of the "Ram Chapel"; the dividing wall between the buildings was of mud brick only but was bonded into the burnt brickwork; the facade of the Ram Chapel was shortened in order to retain the entrance-lobby of the house. The front wall had fourteen courses of burnt brick with mud brick above. The threshold had been raised several times, showing one opening at 0.45 m. above the existing pavement of the interior (0.80 m. above the footings of the wall) and another 0.60 m. higher still; the changes were in keeping with the character of the house, which had evidently been more than once remodelled. | (none) |
- 2 Locations
| Media | Media Title | Title | Label | Author | Omeka Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ur Excavations Texts V: Letters and Documents of the Old-Babylonian Period | Ur Excavations Texts V: Letters and Documents of the Old-Babylonian Period | 1953 | Figulla, H.H., Martin, W.J. | (none) |
| Ur Excavations VII; The Old Babylonian Period | Ur Excavations VII; The Old Babylonian Period | 1976 | Woolley, L. and M. Mallowan | (none) |
| Woolley's Catalog Cards | Woolley's Catalog Cards | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:70 Page:46 | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:70 Page:46 | (none) |
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Context
Excavation Context: Ur >> AH Site | AH >> Church Lane >> No. 13 Church Lane
Ur >> Royal Cemetery | PG >> Royal Cemetery | PG1932