Ubaid
The Ubaid period falls within the Pottery Neolithic and Early Chalcolithic periods (c.5900-4000 BC). Ubaid culture began in southern Iraq and spread northwards to cover much of the Fertile Crescent around 4500BC.
Description:
The Ubaid period is marked by the high quality of painted pottery, found throughout Mesopotamia and the Persian Gulf. The first settlements were established, most notably at Eridu, and irrigation agriculture also began during this period. The name derives from Tell al-Ubaid, excavated by Henry Hall and Sir Leonard Woolley as part of the Ur project. It is part of the Neolithic, and arises out of the Halaf period, and is replaced by the Uruk Period.
Ultra-Low Chronology:
Short/Low Chronology:
Medium Chronology: 5500-4000 BCE
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| Object | U Number | Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) | Museum Number (BM Registration Number) | Museum Number (UPM B-number) | Description (Catalog Card) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (none) | (none) | 1930,1213.215 | (none) | (none) | |
| (none) | (none) | 1930,1213.282 | (none) | (none) | |
| (none) | (none) | 1930,1213.189 | (none) | (none) | |
 | (none) | (none) | 1929,1017.747 | (none) | (none) |
| (none) | (none) | 1930,1213.214 | (none) | (none) |
| 15356A | 31-16-735 | (none) | (none) | Baked clay figurine. 2 fragments from similar figure. Green clay with black paint. Nude female figure with painted waist-band. The modelling of the lower part is unusually free and round. [drawing] | |
| 15356B | 31-16-737 | (none) | (none) | Baked clay figurine. 2 fragments from similar figure. Green clay with black paint. Nude female figure with painted waist-band. The modelling of the lower part is unusually free and round. [drawing] | |
| 15386 | (none) | 1930,1213.198 | (none) | Clay cup. TO painted ware. Type CCCXLV. 23 [drawing] | |
| 15608 | 31-17-316 | (none) | (none) | Clay bowl (fragments: imperfect) TO painted ware. Brownish black on drab. Type CCCXCI(?). 19. [drawing] | |
| 15593 | 31-17-291 | (none) | (none) | Clay bowl or platter. TO painted ware. Black paint, poor & powdery. on light drab. Type CCCLXV. 3. [drawing] | |
| 15565 | (none) | 1930,1213.193 | (none) | Clay bowl. Fragments. TO painted ware. Black on greenish drab. Type CCCLXV. 3a. [drawing] | |
| 15573 | (none) | 1930,1213.00 | (none) | Clay bowl. TO painted ware ( in fragments) Black on cream. Type CCCLXXVI. 21. [drawing] | |
| 15629 | 31-17-284 | (none) | (none) | Clay bowl. TO painted ware. Fragments: the centre missing. Plain black border on light drab ground. Type CCCLXV. [drawing] | |
| 15533 | (none) | 1930,1213.195 | (none) | Clay bowl. TO painted ware. Rough & handmade. Black paint on drab. Type CCCLXV. 3a. [drawing] | |
| 7106 | (none) | (none) | B16629 | Clay bowl. Design roughly painted in black on ground. Found inverted; under it, dates. Type CCLXXVIII. =L. | |
| 19983 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay bowl. TO. Painted ware. Black on light drab clay. In fragments. aLL 21 [Annotated] [drawing] |
| 15607 | 31-17-303 | (none) | (none) | Clay cup. Fragments. Incomplete. TO painted ware. Black on drab. Type CCCXLV. aU24. [drawing] | |
| 15592 | 31-17-355 | (none) | (none) | Clay cup. TO painted ware (fragmentary & in v. bad comdition) Black on greenish drab. Type CCCXLV. 23. [drawing] | |
| 15571 | 31-17-301 | (none) | (none) | Clay cup. TO painted ware (in fragments) Black on cream. Broken. Type CCCXLV. 23. [drawing] | |
| 15568 | 31-17-309 | (none) | (none) | Clay cup. TO painted ware (in fragments) black on greenish drab. Type CCCLXV. 25. [drawing] | |
| 15577 | (none) | 1930,1213.190 | (none) | Clay cup. TO painted ware (in fragments) Black on greenish drab. Type CCCXLV. 23. [drawing] | |
| 15588 | 31-17-310 | (none) | (none) | Clay cup. TO painted ware (in fragments) Black or dark brown on creamy drab flared in places to pink. Type CCCXLV. 23. [drawing] | |
| 15594 | (none) | 1930,1213.186 | (none) | Clay cup. TO painted ware (in fragments) Black paint on light drab. Type CCCXLV. Broken. [drawing] | |
| 15373 | (none) | 1930,1213.200 | (none) | Clay cup. TO painted ware (incomplete) On the side design. Type CCCXLV. [drawing] | |
| 15374 | 31-17-312 | 1930,1213.188 | (none) | Clay cup. TO painted ware. Black bands on greenish drab clay. (restored from fragments) Type CCCXLV. aU23. |
Related Terms
Uruk - Jemdat Nasr - Early Dynastic / Sumerian - Akkadian Dynasty - Guti/Post Akkadian - Ur III - Old Babylonian - Middle Assyrian - Kassite - Neo-Assyrian - Neo-Babylonian - Achaemenid Empire (Persian) - Seleucid - Parthian