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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 10110 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet Accounts. archaic. receipts of oil and honey? HC 51 |
| 10112 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet Accounts, archaic HC 53 |
| 10113 | (none) | 1930,1213.656 | (none) | Tablet Accounts archaic receipts and bacon fat.... HC. 54 |
| 10114 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet accounts archaic receipts (su-ba-li) and corn HC. 55. | |
| 10115 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet Tablet, accounts. dated Ibi-Sin (new?) |
| 10116 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet Accounts: receipt + silver. Obv. illegible. Rev = Date = SAK p.235,6(m). Seal imp. of Ibi-Sin (not otherwise legible). This date (meaning of Tukin-batti-migrisato the Patesi of Zabeali) is [illegible] to belonging to Ibi-Sin's reign. So conjectured already in Camb. Are. Hit. c. 450. [Meaning and handwriting unclear]. |
| 10117 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet. Account Taking (Su-lil-a) and barley seed. Ur III Dynasty? Month Ezen dKug?! HC. 101 |
| 10119 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet? Fragment Similar to preceding: found lower down | |
| 10120 | (none) | 1930,1213.655 | (none) | Tablet Dusinan note: 2 (for?) ad-e or the major-domo HC 102 |
| 10121 | (none) | 1930,1213.658 | (none) | Tablet Small globular tablet: archaic "arad Lin-Ti(l)" |
| 10123 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet Case tablet: Inscript. very unclear | |
| 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 |
| 10127 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet Round School Tablet. Words on obv. rev. scratches only! HC. 132 (obverse) |
| 10129 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Seal Impression. Presentation Scene: Goddess enthroned holding cup? 1st figure approaching. 2nd figure approaching both hands raised high, or horned hat. Inscription illegible on both sides of clay lump. HC.>182 |
| 10131 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet Accounts Fragment, with date- Gimil Sin 8 fuller form month (it)u dul-kugdNin..... HC 104 |
| 10132 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet Business document. Date- ? var. of Rim-Sin 16. HC 102 |
| 10133 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Seal Impression This is from same seal as U.10605 HC 176 |
| 10134 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet Fragment: Accounts: payments (of barley by talents??) HC.103 |
| 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). |
| 10136 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay Cone Sinidinnam - U. 2900 with slight variants probably - U. 7798 found lst season. |
| 10137 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay Cone Fragment giving second column of Libit-Istar (U. 4 etc., 7702) but line 1 ends ezen + la. Line 12 ends urikl-ma-ka (cf. U.10105 - first column) [struck out: "HC4"] |
| 10140 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet 6 lines, mostly figures HC 105 |
| 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 |
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| Media | Media Title | Title | Label | Author | Omeka Label |
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| 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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Ur > Royal Cemetery | PG > Private Graves Area | PGA
References
Woolley, Leonard. (1934) Ur Excavations II; The Royal Cemetery, Oxford: Oxford University Press.