[{"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":""}]},{"id":7,"url":"http://www165.123.244.137/location/7/","title":"Temenos Wall | TW","type":"Area","parent":"Ur","control_properties":[{"property":"Season Number","value":"01: 1922-1923","inline":"","footnote":""},{"property":"Season Number","value":"03: 1924-1925","inline":"","footnote":""},{"property":"Season Number","value":"05: 1926-1927","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":"Temenos Wall | TW","inline_note":"","footnote":""},{"prop":"Context Name (Excavation)","property_value":"TW","inline_note":"","footnote":""},{"prop":"Context Name (Publication)","property_value":"Temenos Wall","inline_note":"","footnote":""},{"prop":"Context Description","property_value":"The excavation area abbreviation TW stands for Temenos Wall, a wall that surrounded the ziggurat terrace and its extended sacred space in the northern central portion of the city of Ur through much of its history. The wall may have begun in the Early Dynastic period, as Woolley found some indication of what he believed to be its earliest foundation. There was clearly an Ur III period version that ran south of the giparu and then further southeast to encompass the ehursag. This was the general line of the wall through the Isin-Larsa/Old Babylonian and into the Kassite period, though the Kassites made some changes in the northern portion. Finally, the Neo-Babylonians changed the wall greatly, expanding the area encompassed to the north and south and adding several gateways. The foundations of this later, quite massive, wall often destroyed earlier remains.\r\n\r\nWoolley explored parts of the temenos wall in many seasons and frequently used the TW abbreviation for the wall in any of its building periods. Other excavation area abbreviations include parts of the temenos, particularly NCF, PDW and BC. The temenos wall built by Urnamma was 6 meters thick and built of mud brick with a baked brick facing. Most of the baked brick had been removed, probably for later building. The Nebuchadnezzar and Nabonidus temenos wall had chambers within it and sported six gates into the temenos area. This area was known as e-gish-nu-gal (Woolley read this e-gish-shir-gal). At least one later interpretation  conflates TW with the phrase Town Wall, but the wall surrounding Ur was always referred to as the city wall, (CLW).","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":""}]}]