8732
Description (Catalog Card): | Model shrine? Baked clay. Shaped like a sentry box with a heavy convex back. Entrance has a rounded arch. Fixed onto the back of the recess a narrow strip of baked clay. Shrine has a high rounded top and rosettes decorate the face. Part of the top broken away. [drawing 1:1]1 |
Find Context (Catalog Card): | loose soil TTF |
Material (Catalog Card): | Clay2 |
Measurement (Catalog Card): | Ht 009 depth 005 w of base 0059 |
U Number: | 8732 |
Museum: | University of Pennsylvania Museum |
Object Type: | Miniatures/Models >> Architectural Elements |
Season Number: | 05: 1926-1927 |
Description (Modern): | Modeled clay object, with oblong indentation, possibly in the shape of a shrine, or an incense burner. Yellowish clay. Very Faint U number |
Material: | Inorganic Remains >> Clay >> Fired >> Terracotta |
Museum Number (UPM B-number): | B17214 |
Measurement (X): | 87 |
Measurement (Y): | 59 |
Measurement (Z): | 47 |
[1] Woolley's description |
[2] Material as described by Woolley |
Location | Context Title | Context Description | Description (Modern) |
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TTF | TTF is shorthand for Trial Trench F, the first extension of TTE. Like the other trenches in the royal cemetery it was never mapped and does not appear on an aerial photograph. The trench was dug on the same lines as TTE, essentially extending its width, and the only report that shows its southern line is a mention of the location of PG513 within it. This grave rested upon the ruined northwest wall of PG777, which means that TTF must have met TTE at PG777, since the roof of that grave was revealed in TTE. TTF therefore extended the width of TTE to the northwest. The calculated location of TTF crosses over at least the southern end of TTA. This trench had been dug four years prior and had not been overly deep. It would likely have been mostly collapsed by this point, accounting for the somewhat different line of it and the season 5 trenches TTE, TTF, and TTG. While TTE was almost certainly around 4 meters in width as had been previous trial trenches, TTF and TTG may have been wider in order to find more graves. The only indication is the 1930 aerial photograph that shows an extent in the northwest portion of the cemetery that may go as far as 17 meters from the northwest edge of TTE. It is by no means certain, but a trench width of 6-7 meters (twice that of TTE) is suggested for each of TTF and TTG. The first grave to be given a PG number in TTF was PG227. From this point, the sequence of grave numbers is shared between the two trenches, eventually to be supplemented with TTG. | (none) |
- 1 Location
Media | Media Title | Title | Label | Author | Omeka Label |
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Ur Excavations II; The Royal Cemetery | Ur Excavations II; The Royal Cemetery | 1934 | Woolley, Leonard | (none) | |
Woolley's Catalog Cards | Woolley's Catalog Cards | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:39 Page:168 | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:39 Page:168 | (none) |
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Context
Ur >> Royal Cemetery | PG >> TTF
References
Woolley, Leonard. (1934) Ur Excavations II; The Royal Cemetery, Oxford: Oxford University Press.