[{"id":4656,"url":"http://www165.123.244.137/location/4656/","title":"PJ","type":"Grave","parent":"Royal Cemetery | PG","control_properties":[{"property":"Season Number","value":"08: 1929-1930","inline":"","footnote":""},{"property":"Season Number","value":"11: 1932-1933","inline":"","footnote":""},{"property":"Season Number","value":"12: 1933-1934","inline":"","footnote":""}],"free_form_properties":[{"prop":"Context Title","property_value":"PJ","inline_note":"","footnote":""},{"prop":"Context Name (Excavation)","property_value":"PJ","inline_note":"","footnote":""},{"prop":"Context Name (Excavation)","property_value":"Jemdet Nasr Cemetery","inline_note":"","footnote":""},{"prop":"Context Description","property_value":"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.\r\n\r\nThere 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.","inline_note":"","footnote":""}]},{"id":3704,"url":"http://www165.123.244.137/location/3704/","title":"Private Graves Area | PGA","type":"Grave","parent":"Royal Cemetery | PG","control_properties":[{"property":"Season Number","value":"06: 1927-1928","inline":"","footnote":""},{"property":"Season Number","value":"07: 1928-1929","inline":"","footnote":""},{"property":"Season Number","value":"08: 1929-1930","inline":"","footnote":""},{"property":"Season Number","value":"10: 1931-1932","inline":"","footnote":""},{"property":"Season Number","value":"11: 1932-1933","inline":"","footnote":""}],"free_form_properties":[{"prop":"Context Title","property_value":"Private Graves Area | PGA","inline_note":"","footnote":""},{"prop":"Context Name (Excavation)","property_value":"PGA","inline_note":"","footnote":""},{"prop":"Context Name (Publication)","property_value":"Royal Cemetery","inline_note":"","footnote":""},{"prop":"Context Description","property_value":"In season 6, Woolley expanded his trial trenches in area PG opening up a much larger space in the Royal Cemetery proper. The northeastern extents in TTG had been revealing fewer and fewer graves, so he expected many more to the southeast; indeed, he found an increasing density here. He no longer considered this to be trial exploration, but a true excavation area, and thus began to call the space the Private Graves Area, abbreviated PGA. He also began mapping individual graves, establishing at least 4 mapping points from which he took angular measures to pinpoint locations. Unfortunately he never showed where these stakes were placed on any map so we can no longer utilize the recorded angles. \r\n\r\nCards from this season that bear the abbreviation PGA all concern textual material. Grave goods or other finds were recorded under their individual PG numbers rather than the general PGA abbreviation. It appears that the only material collected in the area but not associated with graves directly were inscribed objects and thus these were the only ones to garner the PGA designation.","inline_note":"","footnote":""}]}]