Description (Catalog Card): Clay pot. With wheel-turned grooves on shoulder. Much of rim missing. Type XXXVI. [Annotated] Phil1     
Find Context (Catalog Card): T.T.A     
Material (Catalog Card): Clay2     
Measurement (Catalog Card): ht 011 rim diam 0095     
U Number: 86     
Museum: University of Pennsylvania Museum      
Object Type: Vessels/Containers >> Closed Forms >> Jars      
Season Number: 01: 1922-1923      
Description (Modern): Restricted Ovaloid Jar with slightly rounded bottom and a constricted neck. Lopsided. About half of the rim is missing. Incised lines around the shoulder. Reddish brown clay.     
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Clay >> Fired >> Pottery/Ceramic      
Museum Number (UPM B-number): B15390     
Measurement (Diameter): 120     
Measurement (X): 120     
[1] Woolley's description
[2] Material as described by Woolley

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Location Context Title Context Description Description (Modern)
TTA 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. (none)
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Media Media Title Title Label Author Omeka Label
Ur Excavations IX; The Neo-Babylonian and Persian Periods Ur Excavations IX; The Neo-Babylonian and Persian Periods 1962 Woolley, L. and Mallowan, Max (none)
Woolley's Catalog Cards Woolley's Catalog Cards Card -- BM ID:194 Box:21 Page:97 Card -- BM ID:194 Box:21 Page:97 (none)
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