﻿UR 
  OF 
  THE 
  CHALDEES: 
  MORE 
  ROYAL 
  TOMBS 
  

  

  By 
  C. 
  Leonard 
  Woollet 
  

  

  [With 
  17 
  plates] 
  

   STRATIFICATION 
  

  

  The 
  first 
  month 
  of 
  our 
  new 
  season 
  at 
  Ur 
  has 
  not 
  indeed 
  produced 
  

   treasures 
  to 
  eclipse 
  those 
  of 
  last 
  winter, 
  when 
  we 
  discovered 
  the 
  

   tombs 
  of 
  the 
  ancient 
  kings 
  with 
  their 
  wealth 
  of 
  gold 
  and 
  their 
  array 
  

   of 
  human 
  victims, 
  but 
  it 
  has 
  brought 
  us, 
  together 
  with 
  many 
  objects 
  

   of 
  first-class 
  importance, 
  more 
  information 
  about 
  the 
  ritual 
  of 
  those 
  

   royal 
  funerals. 
  

  

  All 
  over 
  the 
  cemetery 
  the 
  upper 
  levels 
  have 
  been 
  disturbed 
  by 
  

   the 
  grave 
  diggers 
  of 
  a 
  later 
  period 
  and 
  in 
  half 
  of 
  the 
  area 
  worked 
  

   by 
  us 
  during 
  November 
  grave 
  robbers, 
  house 
  builders, 
  and 
  layers 
  

   of 
  drains 
  had 
  made 
  havoc 
  of 
  the 
  site, 
  but 
  in 
  the 
  other 
  half 
  conditions 
  

   were 
  simpler 
  and 
  it 
  was 
  possible 
  to 
  observe 
  as 
  never 
  before 
  the 
  

   vertical 
  relations 
  between 
  successive 
  strata; 
  factors 
  which 
  elsewhere 
  

   had 
  vanished 
  altogether 
  or 
  survived 
  only 
  as 
  isolated 
  and 
  meaningless 
  

   fragments 
  we 
  could 
  here 
  connect 
  into 
  a 
  scheme. 
  Here 
  the 
  evidence 
  

   of 
  the 
  whole 
  strongly 
  corroborates 
  the 
  chronological 
  scheme 
  sug- 
  

   gested 
  by 
  me 
  two 
  years 
  ago; 
  the 
  Sargonid 
  graves 
  are 
  clearly 
  distin- 
  

   guished 
  by 
  the 
  types 
  of 
  pottery 
  and 
  weapons, 
  etc., 
  the 
  first 
  dynasty 
  

   graves 
  come 
  close 
  to 
  these 
  m 
  level 
  and 
  have 
  often 
  been 
  disturbed 
  by 
  

   them, 
  and 
  then 
  after 
  a 
  comparatively 
  barren 
  stratum 
  come 
  those 
  

   of 
  the 
  early 
  series 
  with 
  their 
  distinctive 
  furniture. 
  Certain 
  modi- 
  

   fications 
  of 
  my 
  previous 
  arguments 
  are 
  enforced 
  by 
  observations 
  

   made 
  under 
  better 
  conditions, 
  but 
  the 
  main 
  thesis 
  seems 
  to 
  hold 
  

   good. 
  

  

  One 
  grave 
  which 
  I 
  would 
  assign 
  to 
  the 
  latter 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  early 
  

   period 
  contained 
  an 
  object 
  of 
  very 
  great 
  value 
  for 
  comparative 
  

   dating 
  — 
  a 
  complete 
  painted 
  clay 
  vase 
  of 
  the 
  later 
  Jemdet 
  Nasr 
  

   type. 
  This 
  is 
  the 
  only 
  example 
  of 
  this 
  ware 
  yet 
  encountered 
  by 
  us. 
  

   It 
  must 
  be 
  an 
  importation 
  at 
  a 
  time 
  when 
  Sumerian 
  pottery 
  was 
  

   exclusively 
  monochrome 
  and 
  it 
  appears 
  to 
  support 
  the 
  view 
  I 
  have 
  

  

  1 
  Repriuted 
  by 
  permission 
  from 
  The 
  Museum 
  Journal, 
  Museum 
  of 
  the 
  University 
  of 
  Pennsylvania, 
  

   March, 
  1929. 
  

  

  437 
  

  

  