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:
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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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1405 | (none) | 1924,0920.385 | (none) | Figurine. Fragment, legs and waist only. Brown clay: modeled. Female figure. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 2819 | (none) | 1927,1003.148 | (none) | Clay sickle. Greenish drab model: prehistoric, with cutting edge and ends of blade painted black. [drawing 1:1] | |
 | 9362A | (none) | (none) | (none) | No catalog card exists for this object: U.9361-U.9365 were duplicated with the duplicates assigned to tablets from Season 5. They were originally part of U.7809, a large group of tablet fragments found in Area SM that were later separated and given individual numbers (Jacobsen AJA 57:128). |
| 12018 | (none) | 1929,1017.555 | (none) | Copper Adze (?) [drawing] Type | |
| 12094 | (none) | 1928,1010.816 | (none) | Terracotta figurine. Painted. Grotesque. Head missing. Black paint round neck and black painted lines running vertically down back and shoulders. | |
| 14436 | 31-16-999 | (none) | (none) | Clay figurine. Fragment only. Showing the buttocks in profile. Greenish clay with black paint. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 14988 | 32-40-8 | (none) | (none) | Clay jug. (in fragments but nearly complete) Painted ware, TO. Type CCCXXXVII. As U.47 [as U.47? not legible.] See A.J.x (1920-30 excavations) Pl.XLIVb. | |
| 15349 | 31-16-738 | (none) | (none) | Clay figurine. Fragment. Female figure, from waist to ankles. Greenish clay: round waist traces of belt in black paint. [drawing] | |
| 15354A | 31-16-998 | (none) | (none) | Figurine. Fragment. Baked clay animal. Green clay with black bands. (A) Striped body, very long, of a tiger(?) head & forelegs missing. [1:2 drawing] (B) Hind quarters. [1:2 drawing] (C) Forepart of buffalo. [1:2 drawing] (D) Pig. [1:2 drawing] | |
| 15354B | (none) | 1935,0113.67 | (none) | Figurine. Fragment. Baked clay animal. Green clay with black bands. (A) Striped body, very long, of a tiger(?) head & forelegs missing. [1:2 drawing] (B) Hind quarters. [1:2 drawing] (C) Forepart of buffalo. [1:2 drawing] (D) Pig. [1:2 drawing] | |
| 15354C | 31-16-742 | (none) | (none) | Figurine. Fragment. Baked clay animal. Green clay with black bands. (A) Striped body, very long, of a tiger(?) head & forelegs missing. [1:2 drawing] (B) Hind quarters. [1:2 drawing] (C) Forepart of buffalo. [1:2 drawing] (D) Pig. [1:2 drawing] | |
| 15354D | 31-16-945 | (none) | (none) | Figurine. Fragment. Baked clay animal. Green clay with black bands. (A) Striped body, very long, of a tiger(?) head & forelegs missing. [1:2 drawing] (B) Hind quarters. [1:2 drawing] (C) Forepart of buffalo. [1:2 drawing] (D) Pig. [1:2 drawing] | |
| 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] | |
| 15362 | 31-16-741 | (none) | (none) | Clay figurine. A bird. In baked clay, greenish drab with black paint. Wings broken. It has a clay tube below as if for mounting on a staff. [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. | |
| 15379 | 31-16-734 | (none) | (none) | Clay figurine. Female figure, nude, with hands on waist. She wears a high headdress, or high coiffure, originally covered with bitumen: traces remain of black apint in the eyes and of red paint on the cheeks. | |
| 15385 | 31-16-733 | (none) | (none) | Terracotta figurine. A nude female standing, with the hands resting on the waist. The high head is covered with bitumen to represent hair (this preserved). | |
| 15386 | (none) | 1930,1213.198 | (none) | Clay cup. TO painted ware. Type CCCXLV. 23 [drawing] | |
| 15389 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay cup. TO painted ware. Black on greenish drab. Type CCCXLV. 25. [drawing] |
| 15390 | 31-17-300 | (none) | (none) | Clay cup. TO painted ware. Black on drab. (in fragments). Type CCCXLV. 23. [drawing] | |
| 15392 | (none) | 1930,1213.197 | (none) | Clay cup. TO painted ware. Black on greenish drab. Type CCCXLV. 26. [drawing] | |
| 15394 | (none) | 1930,1213.185 | (none) | Clay pot. With spout and handle. painted TO ware. Type CCCLIV. 48. | |
| 15395 | 31-17-311 | (none) | (none) | Clay cup. TO painted ware. Black on green. Type CCCLV. 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