Description (Catalog Card): Tablets? Two fragments of tablets with scratches conceivably representing archaic writing ???     
Find Context (Catalog Card): PGA TF     
U Number: 10118A1     
Museum: British Museum      
Season Number: 06: 1927-1928      
Object Type: Writing and Record Keeping >> Tablet      
Culture/Period: Early Dynastic / Sumerian      
Description (Modern): Cuneiform tablet (2)     
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Clay      
Tablet ID Number: X006374     
[1] U number duplicated because of number of objects listed on card.

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Location Context Title Context Description Description (Modern)
Private Graves Area | PGA 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. (none)
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Media: 10118A Export: JSON - XML - CSV

Media Media Title Title Label Author Omeka Label
Woolley's Catalog Cards Woolley's Catalog Cards Card -- BM ID:194 Box:44 Page:154 Card -- BM ID:194 Box:44 Page:154 (none)
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Ur >> Royal Cemetery | PG >> Private Graves Area | PGA


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