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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15534 | (none) | 1930,1213.216 | (none) | Clay cup. TO painted ware. Black on greenish drab. Type CCCXLV. 25. [drawing] | |
| 15543 | (none) | 1930,1213.191 | (none) | Clay cup. TO painted ware. Black on green. Type CCCXLV. 25. [drawing] | |
| 15549 | 31-17-287 | (none) | (none) | Clay platter. TO painted ware. Black border, simple, on green body. Type CCCLXI. 7. | |
| 15550 | (none) | 1930,1213.210 | (none) | Clay cup. TO painted ware. Black on green: (incomplete) Type CCCXLV. 25. [drawing] | |
| 15551 | (none) | 1930,1213.211 | (none) | Clay cup. TO painted ware. Black on warm buff (incomplete) Type CCCXLV. 25. [drawing] | |
| 15552 | 31-17-288 | (none) | (none) | Clay platter. TO painted ware. Black on greenish drab. Type CCCLXVI. 4. [drawing] | |
| 15560 | (none) | 1930,1213.220 | (none) | Clay cup. TO painted ware. Black bands on light red clay. Fragments only not making a complete vessel: all base missing. Type CCCXLV 25. | |
| 15561 | (none) | 1930,1213.219 | (none) | Clay cup. To painted ware. Black on cream. Type CCCXLV. 23. [drawing] | |
| 15565 | (none) | 1930,1213.193 | (none) | Clay bowl. Fragments. TO painted ware. Black on greenish drab. Type CCCLXV. 3a. [drawing] | |
| 15568 | 31-17-309 | (none) | (none) | Clay cup. TO painted ware (in fragments) black on greenish drab. Type CCCLXV. 25. [drawing] | |
| 15571 | 31-17-301 | (none) | (none) | Clay cup. TO painted ware (in fragments) Black on cream. Broken. Type CCCXLV. 23. [drawing] | |
| 15573 | (none) | 1930,1213.00 | (none) | Clay bowl. TO painted ware ( in fragments) Black on cream. Type CCCLXXVI. 21. [drawing] | |
| 15576 | 31-17-285 | (none) | (none) | Clay platter. TO painted ware. Plain black border on greenish drab clay. Type CCCLXV. 3a. | |
| 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] | |
| 15589 | (none) | 1930,1213.204 | (none) | Clay platter. TO painted ware (broken but complete) Plain black border ong reen ground. Type CCCLXXVII. 8. | |
| 15592 | 31-17-355 | (none) | (none) | Clay cup. TO painted ware (fragmentary & in v. bad comdition) Black on greenish drab. Type CCCXLV. 23. [drawing] | |
| 15592A | 31-17-354 | (none) | (none) | Kettle. Painted pottery. Restored. Buff ware. [No field card, appears in typed transcript only] | |
| 15593 | 31-17-291 | (none) | (none) | Clay bowl or platter. TO painted ware. Black paint, poor & powdery. on light drab. Type CCCLXV. 3. [drawing] | |
| 15594 | (none) | 1930,1213.186 | (none) | Clay cup. TO painted ware (in fragments) Black paint on light drab. Type CCCXLV. Broken. [drawing] | |
| 15600 | (none) | 1930,1213.207 | (none) | Clay platter. TO painted ware. Broad black border on green, fragments, incomplete. Type CCCLXXVII. aU.8 | |
| 15607 | 31-17-303 | (none) | (none) | Clay cup. Fragments. Incomplete. TO painted ware. Black on drab. Type CCCXLV. aU24. [drawing] | |
| 15608 | 31-17-316 | (none) | (none) | Clay bowl (fragments: imperfect) TO painted ware. Brownish black on drab. Type CCCXCI(?). 19. [drawing] | |
| 15619 | 31-17-364 | (none) | (none) | Fragment of clay platter. (about one half) TO painted ware. Black on green. Type CCCLXVI but with narrow rim. aU.5. | |
| 15621 | (none) | 1930,1213.227 | (none) | Clay cup. TO painted ware. Fragments. Type CCCXLV. 25. [drawing] |
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