TTA
| Context Title: | TTA |
| Context Name (Excavation): | Trial Trench A |
| Context Name (Publication): | Royal Cemetery Area |
| Context Description: | TTA is shorthand for Trial Trench A, one of two exploratory trenches excavated in Woolley's first season at Ur in 1922. This one was about 4 meters wide by about 40 meters long as revealed by an aerial photograph taken at the end of the 1922 season. The trench encountered a few scattered finds of jewelry and materials that led Woolley to suspect they were from a graveyard, but he felt his team of local diggers was not yet ready to excavate such sensitive contexts. Thus, he decided to concentrate on TTB for the first few seasons, according to his various publications. One of the primary reasons for concentrating on TTB initially, however, may have been that Woolley discovered no architecture in TTA but had struck the enunmah building in TTB. Woolley returned to TTA in season 5, when he expanded with new trial trenches and eventually opened up the entire area of the Royal Cemetery. No individual graves are reported in TTA and any that might have been encountered did not receive PG numbers. Those in the following trial trenches expanding TTA (TTE, TTF, TTG) did receive these numbers and gave their abbreviation (PG) to the entire Royal Cemetery area. |
| Season Number: | 01: 1922-1923 |
| Object | U Number | Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) | Museum Number (BM Registration Number) | Museum Number (UPM B-number) | Description (Catalog Card) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 51 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Necklace. Consisting of agate lunar pendant, 13 gold beads (some decayed), 12 carnelian and 18 lapis beads (including one barrel 0.047 long) = from this beads through the center 13 are restrung in the original order. and 7 gold beads unstrung. |
| 56 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver buckle(?). of twisted metal, snake-like twist. 3 frs, perhaps of 2 separate ones. [drawing] |
| 57A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] 2 Silver bracelets. Square-ended circles of silver rod grooved longitudinally along out face: much oxidized. |
| 57B | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] 2 Silver bracelets. Square-ended circles of silver rod grooved longitudinally along outer face: much oxidized. |
| 58A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] Bronze bowls, 2. Much crushed and broken, and completely oxidized,. Roughly hemispherical. |
| 58B | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] Bronze bowls, 2. Much crushed and broken, and completely oxidized,. Roughly hemispherical. |
| 59 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bronze axe. [drawing 1:2] |
| 60 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bronze pointed Rod. ? spear butt? |
| 61A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] 2 Bronze rings. Much oxidized. one broken. |
| 62 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bronze dagger. Point broken. 3 rivets. [drawing 1:2] |
| 64 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Alabaster bowl. In very bad condition, stained and whole surface eroded, much of rim broken away. [drawing 1:2] |
| 65 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay figurine. Lower part missing. Moulded. [drawing 1:1] |
| 66 | (none) | (none) | B15183 | Clay plaque. Fr. of, With figure of god moulded in relief. [drawing 1:1] [Annotated] Phil | |
| 68 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay figurine. Snowman technique. Horseman (?) with traces on back of a cloak or shield decorated with circles. [drawing] |
| 69 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet, clay Inscribed [Annotated] Sumerian Account Tablet, Undated [Annotated] Placed in IN/No. 2 |
| 70 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet, clay Inscribed. [Annotated] Sumerian Account Tablet dated in 45th year of Dungi [Annotated] Placed in IN/No.2 |
| 71 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bone handle(?) As if for a small surgical (?/ instrument decorated with incised lines and dots, pierced longitudinally. [drawing 1:1] |
| 73 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bronze arrowhead. three-edged type. [drawing 1:1] |
| 74 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay cone. Inscribed. Upper part. Lower part broken off in antiquity. [Annotated] Duplicate of U.4. [Annotated] Ur Texts I: R.1.106 [Annotated] Placed in IN/No.5. |
| 75 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bronze funerary urn. frg. of very much broken up and oxidized. It contains human bones all broken up small, but shewing no signs of burning. [drawing] Bottom of urn set about 0.015 above the lowest edge of the walls |
| 78 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay tablet. Inscribed. [Annotated] Sumerian list, period Third Dynasty of Ur, date broken, begins MU.EN.NINGAR (Nannar) |
| 80 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Greenish white steatite. Subject, god seated rt. A minor deity introducing a worshipper: inscr. in 2 columns [drawing of inscription] 3rd Dynasty |
| 81 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Paste. Poor condition. Simple criss-cross design. [drawing 1:1] |
| 83 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay pot. Greenish drab clay, wheelmade. Type III. |
| 84 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay pot. Drab clay, wheelmade. Type III. |
| Media | Media Title | Title | Label | Author | Omeka Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ur Excavations II; The Royal Cemetery | Ur Excavations II; The Royal Cemetery | 1934 | Woolley, Leonard | (none) |
| Woolley's Field Note Cards | Woolley's Field Note Cards | Ur_Notes_v1_p016 | Ur_Notes_v1_p016 | (none) | |
| Woolley's Field Note Cards | Woolley's Field Note Cards | Ur Notes v20 p1 | Ur Notes v20 p1 | (none) | |
| Woolley's Field Note Cards | Woolley's Field Note Cards | Ur Notes v20 p2 | Ur Notes v20 p2 | (none) | |
| Woolley's Field Note Cards | Woolley's Field Note Cards | Ur Notes v20 p3 | Ur Notes v20 p3 | (none) | |
| Woolley's Field Note Cards | Woolley's Field Note Cards | Ur Notes v20 p4 | Ur Notes v20 p4 | (none) | |
| Woolley's Field Note Cards | Woolley's Field Note Cards | Ur Notes v20 p5 | Ur Notes v20 p5 | (none) | |
| Woolley's Field Note Cards | Woolley's Field Note Cards | Ur Notes v20 p6 | Ur Notes v20 p6 | (none) | |
| Woolley's Field Note Cards | Woolley's Field Note Cards | Ur Notes v20 p7 | Ur Notes v20 p7 | (none) | |
| Woolley's Field Note Cards | Woolley's Field Note Cards | Ur Notes v20 p8 | Ur Notes v20 p8 | (none) | |
| Woolley's Field Note Cards | Woolley's Field Note Cards | Ur Notes v20 p9 | Ur Notes v20 p9 | (none) | |
| Woolley's Field Note Cards | Woolley's Field Note Cards | Ur Notes v20 p10 | Ur Notes v20 p10 | (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 - Private Graves Area | PGA - Royal Cemetery | PG1931 - Royal Cemetery | PG1932 - Seal Impression Strata | SIS - TTD - TTE - TTF - TTG
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Context
Ur > Royal Cemetery | PG > TTA
References
Woolley, Leonard. (1934) Ur Excavations II; The Royal Cemetery, Oxford: Oxford University Press.