[{"id":12,"url":"http://www165.123.244.137/location/12/","title":"FH","type":"Area","parent":"Ur","control_properties":[{"property":"Season Number","value":"09: 1930-1931","inline":"","footnote":""},{"property":"Season Number","value":"10: 1931-1932","inline":"","footnote":""}],"free_form_properties":[{"prop":"Context Title","property_value":"FH","inline_note":"","footnote":""},{"prop":"Context Name (Excavation)","property_value":"Front of Hall's excavation area B","inline_note":"","footnote":""},{"prop":"Context Name (Publication)","property_value":"FH site","inline_note":"","footnote":""},{"prop":"Context Description","property_value":"The excavation area abbreviation FH stands for 'Front of Hall'. By this, Woolley meant the area in front of (north of) Hall's excavation area B, the building found to be the ehursag. Woolley dug Trial Trench C (TTC) in the southern extent of this denuded area in season 4 and expanded investigations in seasons 9 and 10 in order to complete his understanding of the constructions inside the temenos and especially to find more evidence of the earlier temenos wall.\r\n\r\nIn a season 9 report early in 1931, Woolley had this to say about what he found in area FH: \"considerable Larsa wall, some Kassite house remains of no particular importance, and a remarkable cistern of burnt bricks and bitumen.\" In season 10, he said: \"Having proved that nothing could be recovered in this area to complete the ground-plan of the Temenos I stopped the work.\"","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":""}]},{"id":31,"url":"http://www165.123.244.137/location/31/","title":"Ziggurat Terrace | ZT","type":"Area","parent":"Ur","control_properties":[{"property":"Season Number","value":"02: 1923-1924","inline":"","footnote":""},{"property":"Season Number","value":"03: 1924-1925","inline":"","footnote":""},{"property":"Season Number","value":"05: 1926-1927","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":"Ziggurat Terrace | ZT","inline_note":"","footnote":""},{"prop":"Context Name (Publication)","property_value":"Ziggurat Terrace","inline_note":"","footnote":""},{"prop":"Context Name (Excavation)","property_value":"ZT","inline_note":"","footnote":""},{"prop":"Context Description","property_value":"The excavation area abbreviation ZT stands for Ziggurat Terrace. It was used for any portion of the terrace on which the ziggurat stood, though other more specific abbreviations were also used. For example, the abbreviation PDW refers to the northern side of the terrace, west of the Great Nannar Courtyard (PD), and HD refers to the southern part of the terrace. Early references using the abbreviation ZT refer specifically to excavations along the terrace retaining wall itself. Later references, however, mention specific areas on top the terrace such as the so-called 'boat shrine.' The abbreviation also refers to deep clearing of the terrace fill, particularly on the north side in later excavation seasons, though the abbreviation Zig.31 was most often used for this.\r\n\r\nWoolley uncovered large areas of the retaining wall that supported the platform known as the ziggurat terrace. He found that it was decorated with large wall cones. These cones bore an inscription of Urnamma but there is evidence that the terrace in some form existed in the Early Dynastic period as well. The Urnamma retaining wall was slanted to support the terrace, was 1.7 meters high, 34 meters wide, and was decorated with 5-meter-wide buttresses about 4 meters apart. The inscribed cones dedicate the terrace to the moon god, Nanna, and show that it was called e-temen-ni-gur, which translates as, \"house, foundation platform clad in terror.\" (Woolley read this e-temen-ni-il).","inline_note":"","footnote":""}]}]