Jemdat Nasr
Jemdat Nasr is applied to a culture based on excavations at the site that have produced a distinct assemblage of objects (c.3000BC-2900BC). The assemblage is restricted to the neighbouring region.
Description:
The Jemdat Nasr Period is an archaeological culture that is named after the type-site, Jemdat Nasr, and its geographical distribution is limited to south-central Iraq. The culture is a local development of the preceding Uruk period and continues into the Early Dynastic I period. The period is marked by its monochrome and polychrome painted pottery, and is noted as one of the formative stages in the development of cuneiform script. The script changed from pictographs to more abstract wedge-shaped appearance.
Chronology: 3100-2900 BCE
Objects: Jemdat Nasr Export: JSON - XML - CSV
| Object | U Number | Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) | Museum Number (BM Registration Number) | Museum Number (UPM B-number) | Description (Catalog Card) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 15123A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A] Silver tumbler. Inverted over [B] a baked clay spouted pot. Tumbler in poor condition & part missing - distorted. Type 531. Not in catalog. [drawing] |
| 15163 | 31-17-13 | (none) | (none) | Lead tumbler. Part of top missing, hole in side. Distorted. Not in catalog. [drawing 2:5] | |
| 15765 | (none) | 1930,1213.203 | (none) | Baked clay vase. Drab. Type? | |
| 15778 | 31-17-12 | (none) | (none) | Baked clay vase. Spouted. Light drab. Covered by a lead tumbler. Clay vase is badly broken. Type same as 15758. | |
| 18487 | (none) | 1933,1013.145 | (none) | Bowl. [Type 27]. [drawing 2:5] |
| 18556 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Lead tumbler. Much distorted. The sides are turned inwards at the base to secure the bottom, which seems to be a separatedisk of the metal. In section, thus: [reference to drawing]? Proper to Vol. IV. [drawing] |
| 18605 | (none) | 1933,1013.246 | (none) | Clay vase, painted. Characteristic Jemdet Nast 3 color design. Type new JN.32. | |
| 18606 | (none) | 1933,1013.249a | (none) | Clay vase, painted with red wash, burnished. Type JN.j.12. Very badly smashed. | |
| 18645 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Lead tumbler. One side decayed away. One side slightly concave. |
| 18646 | (none) | 1933,1013.62 | (none) | Lead tumbler. Distroed and one side decayed. Not in catalog. |
| 18647 | 33-35-97 | (none) | (none) | Lead tumbler. Distorted. [The following note is an addition to original text] Not in cat. Vol IV. | |
| 18720A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A] Lead tumbler with [B] clay pot. Lead tumbler distorted, but approximate dimensions diam 012, height 0055, covering the neck of spouted jar type JNG sj8. (but without line of ornamentation round shoulder). dimensions height 022, diam 016-5 base 008 made of light yellow clay. |
| 19298 | (none) | 1935,0112.15 | (none) | Vase. Black clay finely burnished. Type JN 13. Imitation of stone type JN 26. | |
| 19987 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pot. A spouted bowl. Type |
| 20071 | 35-1-230 | (none) | (none) | Lead tray with flat base and everted sides. Type metal JN | |
| 20072 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Lead tray with flat base and everted sides. Type metal JN |
| 20073A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-N] Lead tumblers. JN metal type. |
| 20074 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Lead bowl. Much distorted. |
| (none) | 35-1-228 | (none) | (none) | Unknown | |
| (none) | 35-1-255 | (none) | (none) | (none) | |
| (none) | 35-1-226 | (none) | (none) | unknown | |
| 12778G.10 | (none) | 1928,1010.769 | (none) | Group of objects: from PG/NW level; found between levels -760 and -800 below the planoconvex brick pavement (A) Clay animal figurine. (B) [.1-.6] Fragment of long clay beads imitating shell. (C) [.1-.9] A number of clay jar-sealing with seal impressions, all of one type, palmette enclosed (imperfect) [reference to drawing]. (see over [Annotated] Legrain 480 (D) An oval clay object. [Annotated] Legrain 481. (see over) [Drawing of impression] (E) Tubular ball (?) bead. (F) Copper needle. (G) [.1-.13] Various examples of pottery. [H] (also animal bones). -- The design on D and C is the same [drawing of design]. | |
| 12778G.11 | (none) | 1928,1010.770 | (none) | Group of objects: from PG/NW level; found between levels -760 and -800 below the planoconvex brick pavement (A) Clay animal figurine. (B) [.1-.6] Fragment of long clay beads imitating shell. (C) [.1-.9] A number of clay jar-sealing with seal impressions, all of one type, palmette enclosed (imperfect) [reference to drawing]. (see over [Annotated] Legrain 480 (D) An oval clay object. [Annotated] Legrain 481. (see over) [Drawing of impression] (E) Tubular ball (?) bead. (F) Copper needle. (G) [.1-.13] Various examples of pottery. [H] (also animal bones). -- The design on D and C is the same [drawing of design]. | |
| 12778G.13 | (none) | 1928,1010.768 | (none) | Group of objects: from PG/NW level; found between levels -760 and -800 below the planoconvex brick pavement (A) Clay animal figurine. (B) [.1-.6] Fragment of long clay beads imitating shell. (C) [.1-.9] A number of clay jar-sealing with seal impressions, all of one type, palmette enclosed (imperfect) [reference to drawing]. (see over [Annotated] Legrain 480 (D) An oval clay object. [Annotated] Legrain 481. (see over) [Drawing of impression] (E) Tubular ball (?) bead. (F) Copper needle. (G) [.1-.13] Various examples of pottery. [H] (also animal bones). -- The design on D and C is the same [drawing of design]. | |
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Related Terms
Ubaid - Uruk - Early Dynastic / Sumerian - Akkadian Dynasty - Guti/Post Akkadian - Ur III - Old Babylonian - Middle Assyrian - Kassite - Neo-Assyrian - Neo-Babylonian - Achaemenid Empire (Persian) - Seleucid - Parthian