18720A
| Description (Catalog Card): | [A] Lead tumbler with [B] clay pot. Lead tumbler distorted, but approximate dimensions diam 012, height 0055, covering the neck of spouted jar type JNG sj8. (but without line of ornamentation round shoulder). dimensions height 022, diam 016-5 base 008 made of light yellow clay.2 |
| Description (Archival): | Spouted jar of yellow buff ware; ring base, carinated shoulder, type JNG. sj.8 (but without line of ornamentation round shoulder).) A distorted lead bowl has been used as a lid and completely covers the neck of the jar. |
| Find Context (Catalog Card): | PG. Pit W. JNG level. |
| Material (Catalog Card): | Lead3 |
| Measurement (Catalog Card): | D. 120mm, H. 55mm |
| U Number: | 18720A |
| Museum: | University of Pennsylvania Museum |
| Object Type: | Vessels/Containers >> Open Forms >> Beakers |
| Season Number: | 11: 1932-1933 |
| Culture/Period: | Jemdat Nasr 1 |
| Material: | Inorganic Remains >> Metal >> Lead |
| Notes: | UPM seems to apply to both objects but the lead tumbler is no longer attached to the jar and it is not clear which of the tumblers in UPM might be this particular one. |
| [1] Müller-Karpe |
| [2] Woolley's description |
| [3] Material as described by Woolley |
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| Location | Context Title | Context Description | Description (Modern) |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Pit W | Pit W was excavated from the bottom of area PG near Pits Y and Z in order to more fully explore the Seal Impression Strata discovered running across the cemetery. Since these strata contained so many early seals and tablets it was clear that they were essential for dating the graves and for learning more about the administration of the city of Ur. In order to observe the strata more clearly, Pit W was much larger than most exploratory pits in the cemetery region, laid out to be 15x7 meters. It was dug from the northeast side of PG/1631 but its horizontal extents were not mapped and Benati (2015) believes that PG/1631 was mistaken for PG/1648, placing Pit W somewhat farther SE. Its published stratigraphic profile shows that PG/1631 (possibly 1648) was actually somewhere near the middle of the long side of the trench and Woolley states that Pit W was placed so as to virtually fill the gap between Pits Y and Z, but was set a few meters northeast of them. This allows for a relatively accurate placement of the pit. Pit W quickly ran through the seal impression strata but Woolley continued it down much farther, as he had with Pits Y and Z, to reach about a meter below sea level. He thus uncovered many graves earlier than the main Royal Cemetery, and because he believed them to be from the Jemdet Nasr period, he began JNG numbers for them. This discovery, combined with early graves in Pit Y, spawned the conception of a Jemdet Nasr cemetery running beneath and south of the Royal Cemetery, and in season 12 Woolley would seek to expose it in Pit X. | (none) |
- 1 Location
| Media | Media Title | Title | Label | Author | Omeka Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Metallgefäße im Iraq I | Metallgefäße im Iraq I | 1993 | Müller-Karpe, Michael | (none) |
| Woolley's Catalog Cards | Woolley's Catalog Cards | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:73 Page:251 | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:73 Page:251 | (none) |
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Context
Excavation Context: Ur >> Royal Cemetery | PG >> Pit W
References
Müller-Karpe, Michael. (1993) Metallgefäße im Iraq I, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag.