Private Graves Area | PGA

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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

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U Number	Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)	Museum Number (BM Registration Number)	Museum Number (UPM B-number)	Description (Catalog Card)
10141	(none)	1935,0113.745	(none)	Tablet ?? Flat piece of silver? Tablet?? Nothing legible
10142	(none)	(none)	(none)	Tablet Fragment of accounts (slave-list) archaic (NB. 47 slaves for dMe-nu-a) HC 58
10143	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay Cone Dedication to Nina by Gudea new? ll. 1-7 = SAK. p. 114 H l 8 edengur ka-lum: cf. SAK 30 a. 4.3.;32 f. 15; 36 m.1.2 NB variant L 9 ki-ka (-ni), app. corruption of gi-ka-na i-ka: cf. SAK. 32 top 25, 32 f. 17 This cone is bored lengthwise from the flat end to a depth of 6.5cm HC. 5
10145	(none)	(none)	(none)	Tablet four payments H.C. 106
10146	(none)	(none)	(none)	Tablet Fragment Relative to a purchase? HC 107
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
10600	(none)	(none)	(none)	Tablet Small fragment: accounts (food stuffs) Time of Gimil-Sin (or later?). cf. obv. 2.
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.
10602	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay Sealing. 2 fragments. Geometrical pattern.
10603	(none)	(none)	(none)	Tablet Fragment (UR III Dyn.) accounts: barley H.C. III.
10604	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay Sealing Fragment: about 6 signs visible,= ? not legible
10605	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay Sealing Stamped on both sides with cylinder about 0025 long: Horned & hoofed being erect held by erect lions to right and left. Inscription 5 signs at ends of lines cf. U.10 133.
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
10608	(none)	(none)	(none)	Tablet Round A school exercise Fragment 4 words or phrases beginning with da (??)
10609	(none)	(none)	(none)	Tablet very roughly written hardly a sign legible?
10610	(none)	(none)	(none)	Tablet Receipt of grain (Ur III Dyn.) H.C. 112
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)?
10624	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay Cone Warad-Sin =SAK 212 (c). Fragment. Text mostly preserved. (any variants?) 1. 15 ..ki . 1. 18 ends un-ne. 1. 26 ends bar. 1. 27 ends tu(r)
10628	(none)	(none)	(none)	Tablet Four columned account tablet, concerning clothes Ur III Dynasty (perhaps the two following small tablets found same day in PGA, but not same place, refer to the same business) For e-dub-ba cf. U.11031/2. HC.119.
10629	(none)	(none)	(none)	Tablet Account (UR III Dyn.) of clothes received (cf. U.10628). 3rd. month, written u-nehuku year data, mu-us-sa bad-gal ba+du. cf. U.10617 and U.10630, see now U.11004. H.C. 120
10630	(none)	(none)	(none)	Tablet Account (IIIrd. Dyn. Ur) Of clothes received (cf. U.10629). 11th.month. perhaps: itu eyend-me-ki-gal but apparently written eyen-mas /...(- intercalled second month of that name??) Year date: mu bad-gal ba-du - (cf. Um 10629). H.C.121
10631	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay Cone Fragment containing extreme end of lines. Probably: Ur-Nammu U.918, 7771, etc. (entered here to record the surprising find-place.)