7770 | 52-30-7
| Description (Catalog Card): | Tablet. Contract (excellent condition). dated 2nd year of Cambyses.2 |
| Find Context (Catalog Card): | TTD corner chamber in temenos |
| Material (Catalog Card): | Clay3 |
| Measurement (Catalog Card): | 11 1/2 x 7 |
| Text Genre: | Administrative and Legal >> Sale |
| Dates Referenced: | Cambyses 2 |
| U Number: | 77701 |
| Museum: | University of Pennsylvania Museum |
| Object Type: | Writing and Record Keeping >> Tablet |
| Season Number: | 05: 1926-1927 |
| Culture/Period: | Achaemenid Empire (Persian) |
| Description (Modern): | Cuneiform tablet |
| Material: | Inorganic Remains >> Clay >> Unfired |
| Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number): | 52-30-7 |
| Tablet ID Number: | P414709 |
| Measurement (Height): | 1154 |
| Measurement (Width): | 704 |
| Notes: | Catalog card lists only one tablet, later registered tablets were added to this field number-- likely do not come from the same context. |
| [1] Additional tablets duplicated this U number-- original kept this U number with no sub-letter. |
| [2] Woolley's description |
| [3] Material as described by Woolley |
| [4] Internal UPM list complied by: Barrett. 1976. Near East Section, Ur, Inscribed Objects |
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| Location | Context Title | Context Description | Description (Modern) |
|---|---|---|---|
| TTD | TTD is shorthand for Trial Trench D, one of two initial trenches dug in season 5 to extend TTA from season 1. Woolley dug TTD and TTE to search for graves in what he believed was a potentially vast cemetery. Neither of these trenches were ever mapped and no aerial photos show them, as by the time of the 1930 RAF photograph the trial trenches had been so extended that most of the Royal Cemetery area had already been exposed. Luckily, Woolley's field records allow us to reconstruct the direction and extents of the trench. He states that it ran from the head (northeast end) of TTA and extended southeastward to the east corner of the Neo-Babylonian temenos wall, making it about 65 meters in length. Though he does not tell us its width it is likely that it was about 4 meters, the same as the measurable trial trenches A, B, and C. TTD did not reveal much, but it was only excavated to a depth of around 2 meters. As Woolley reports in the Antiquaries Journal volume 7 page 1: "The trench to the temenos angle produced no sign of buildings, but for the greater part of its length a floor of beaten mud, lying about 1.75 m. below the present surface, at which level we stopped short." It had just missed the south corner of the Mausoleum of the Ur III kings, and when area PG was expanded beneath the level of TTD in season 8, many graves were recorded here. | (none) |
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| Media | Media Title | Title | Label | Author | Omeka Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Ur Excavations Texts IV: Business Documents of the Neo-Babylonian Period | Ur Excavations Texts IV: Business Documents of the Neo-Babylonian Period | 1949 | Figulla, H. H. | (none) |
| Woolley's Catalog Cards | Woolley's Catalog Cards | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:36 Page:4 | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:36 Page:4 | (none) |
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