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.
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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] | |
| 7106 | (none) | (none) | B16629 | Clay bowl. Design roughly painted in black on ground. Found inverted; under it, dates. Type CCLXXVIII. =L. | |
 | 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. | |
| 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] | |
| 15373 | (none) | 1930,1213.200 | (none) | Clay cup. TO painted ware (incomplete) On the side design. Type CCCXLV. [drawing] | |
| 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] |
| 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. | |
| 15502 | (none) | 1930,1213.183 | (none) | Spouted clay pot. TO painted ware. [drawing] black on greenish drab. Type CCLXVIII. 44. | |
| 15505 | (none) | 1930,1213.196 | (none) | Clay cup. To painted ware. Chocolate brown on pinkish drab. (red clay) (in fragments, & very full of salt). Type CCCXLV. 25. [drawing] | |
| 15509 | (none) | 1930,1213.218 | (none) | Clay cup. TO painted ware. Dark brown on pinkish drab. ( in fragments) Type CCCXLV. 23. [drawing] | |
| 15510 | (none) | 1930,1213.199 | (none) | Clay cup. TO painted ware. Black on green (very thin walled) (in fragments( Type CCCXLV. 23. [drawing] | |
| 15521 | (none) | 1930,1213.209 | (none) | Clay platter. TO painted ware. Plain broad black border on green clay. Type CCCLXVI. 4. | |
| 15525 | (none) | 1930,1213.192 | (none) | Clay pot. TO painted ware. Black on green. Miniature: roughly made by hand and carelessly painted. Type CCCLXXIII. 30. [drawing 2:5] | |
| 15532 | (none) | 1930,1213.205 | (none) | Clay cup. TO painted ware. Black on creamy drab. Type CCCXLV. 26. [drawing] | |
| 15533 | (none) | 1930,1213.195 | (none) | Clay bowl. TO painted ware. Rough & handmade. Black paint on drab. Type CCCLXV. 3a. [drawing] | |
| 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] | |
| 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] | |
| 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. |
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