Pit W

Context Title: Pit W     
Context Name (Publication): Pit W     
Context Name (Excavation): Pit W     
Context Description: 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.     

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Object U Number Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) Museum Number (BM Registration Number) Museum Number (UPM B-number) Description (Catalog Card)
18443 (none) (none) (none) Stone cap. Miniature. Diorite. [drawing 1:1]
18444 (none) 1933,1013.151 (none) Stone base. Miniature. Diorite. [type] 29. [drawing 1:1]
18445 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Carnelian rings.
18446 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. Basic diorite. [Type] 19. [drawing]
18459 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Carnelian rings, 1 agate and 1 dark steatite cylindrical, 2 pink limestone short tubes and some shell rings.
18460 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Carnelian rings, lapis rings, 2 lapis tubular and one ball.
18461 33-35-79 (none) (none) Copper pin. With decorated head thus: [reference to drawing] [drawing]
18462 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Shell and carnelian rings and very long bugles apparently of white paste (?) broken: also a barrel of dark steatite (?)
18463 (none) 1933,1013.82 (none) Cylinder seal. Bright dark red stone (jasper?). Approved with 2 animals and a bird in procession.
18464 (none) (none) (none) Beads. 3 long spacers made from the lips of cowtie shells, shell tubes and black stone barrel.
18465 33-35-152 (none) (none) Beads. Carnelian rings and 1 tubular.
18466 (none) 1933,1013.153 (none) Stone vase. Grey steatite. Type 60. [drawing 1:1]
18467 (none) (none) (none) Bowl. Translucent calcite. [Type 9] [drawing 2:5]
18468 (none) (none) (none) Bowl. Basic diorite. [Type] 12. [drawing 2:5]
18469 (none) (none) (none) Bowl. White limestone. [Type 17] [drawing 2:5]
18470 (none) (none) (none) Bowl. White limestone. [Type 17] [drawing 2:5]
18471 (none) (none) (none) Bowl. Basic diorite. [Type 40] [drawing 2:5]
18472 (none) (none) (none) Bowl. Green basic diorite. [Type] 15. [drawing 2:5]
18473 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Carnelian rings.
18474 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Carnelian rings.
18475 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Carnelian rings.
18476 (none) 1933,1013.170 (none) Beads. Carnelian rings and one tubular.
18477 (none) (none) (none) Bone piercer. Mounted inside original bitumen handle. [drawing]
18478 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. Greenish diorite. [Type] 8. [drawing]
18479 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. Basic diorite. [Type] 20 [drawing]

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Ur Excavations IV; The Early Periods Ur Excavations IV; The Early Periods 1955 Woolley, L. (none)
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References

Woolley, L. . (1955) Ur Excavations IV; The Early Periods, Oxford: Oxford University Press.