Private Graves Area | PGA
| Context Title: | Private Graves Area | PGA |
| Context Name (Excavation): | PGA |
| Context Name (Publication): | Royal Cemetery |
| Context Description: | 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. Cards 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. |
| Season Number: | 06: 1927-1928 |
| Season Number: | 07: 1928-1929 |
| Season Number: | 08: 1929-1930 |
| Season Number: | 10: 1931-1932 |
| Season Number: | 11: 1932-1933 |
Files
| Object | U Number | Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) | Museum Number (BM Registration Number) | Museum Number (UPM B-number) | Description (Catalog Card) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 10146 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet Fragment Relative to a purchase? HC 107 |
| 10603 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet Fragment (UR III Dyn.) accounts: barley H.C. III. | |
| 10134 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet Fragment: Accounts: payments (of barley by talents??) HC.103 |
| 10607 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet Fragmentary Round: School Exercise (Rev. irrecoverable ??) NB. sign in obv. 5 and god dLal (?) (who is associated with Singur...) or is it rather REE 391: Kas + IGI-GUNU, with the form of IGI-GUNU found in CTV.7.obv.iii. 3 words beginning with na Then proper name: Lugaldx and dub-sar. H.C.134 |
| 10610 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet Receipt of grain (Ur III Dyn.) H.C. 112 |
| 10608 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet Round A school exercise Fragment 4 words or phrases beginning with da (??) |
| 10127 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet Round School Tablet. Words on obv. rev. scratches only! HC. 132 (obverse) |
| 10601 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet Small fragment Accounts (clothes, or rather cloth-stuffs) interesting proper names; line 2 apparently Ur-Nam of Eridu, or Ur-Nam-erida. | |
| 10600 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet Small fragment: accounts (food stuffs) Time of Gimil-Sin (or later?). cf. obv. 2. |
| 10121 | (none) | 1930,1213.658 | (none) | Tablet Small globular tablet: archaic "arad Lin-Ti(l)" |
| 10148 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet Small tablet of expenditures (drink?) Ur III Dyn H.C. 108 |
| 10148A | (none) | (none) | B16727 | Tablet Small tablet of expenditures (drink?) Ur III Dyn H.C. 108 |
| 10115 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet Tablet, accounts. dated Ibi-Sin (new?) |
| 10609 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet very roughly written hardly a sign legible? | |
| 10141 | (none) | 1935,0113.745 | (none) | Tablet ?? Flat piece of silver? Tablet?? Nothing legible | |
| 10117 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet. Account Taking (Su-lil-a) and barley seed. Ur III Dynasty? Month Ezen dKug?! HC. 101 |
| 10124 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet. Rough lump. Mentioning new goddess dNin-a-nim-ma. HC..10 |
| 10126 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet. Round School Tablet. Obv. - rev. HC 131 |
| 10119 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet? Fragment Similar to preceding: found lower down | |
| 10118A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablets? Two fragments of tablets with scratches conceivably representing archaic writing ??? | |
| 10118B | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablets? Two fragments of tablets with scratches conceivably representing archaic writing ??? | |
| 10135A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A] Clay Cone Ur-Nammu = U.169 etc.. 7701 [B] Another (fragment) found by PG 827:! (5m. below surface; but traces of burnt brick and pottery rubbish here). |
| 10611 | (none) | (none) | (none) | [struck out: "Tablet"] Seal Impression Fishing scene (fragment) Men carrying 2 fishes; net. Was the net carried by two men, strung from a pole cf. Engraved Shell (Delagorbe Bab. Ass. Civ. Fig. 23)? |
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| Media | Media Title | Title | Label | Author | Omeka Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ur Excavations II; The Royal Cemetery | Ur Excavations II; The Royal Cemetery | 1934 | Woolley, Leonard | (none) |
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Sibling Locations
Burnt Burial - Larsa Graves - PG/B - Pit A - Pit B - Pit C - Pit D - Pit E - Pit G - Pit H - Pit W - Pit Z - PJ - Private Graves 1001-1100 - Private Graves 1101-1200 - Private Graves 1201-1300 - Private Graves 1301-1400 - Private Graves 1401-1500 - Private Graves 1501-1600 - Private Graves 1601-1700 - Private Graves 1701-1800 - Private Graves 1801-1850 - Private Graves 501-600 - Private Graves 601-700 - Private Graves 701-800 - Private Graves 801-900 - Private Graves 901-1000 - Royal Cemetery | PG1931 - Royal Cemetery | PG1932 - Seal Impression Strata | SIS - TTA - TTD - TTE - TTF - TTG
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References
Woolley, Leonard. (1934) Ur Excavations II; The Royal Cemetery, Oxford: Oxford University Press.