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Surroundings:

ZigguratUr-Nammu StelaUr, E-dublal-mahUr, planUr, E-giparE-hursagUr, zigguratUr, So-called

Location:

  • Iraq, ‘Abd Āl Washīḩ
  • geo:30.972555,46.03064
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • -6500~ / -3800~

Class:

  • City
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=20964

Annotations

Settlement dates to ca. 6500 to 3800 BC. It gave the name to the period. This term was coined at a conference in Baghdad in 1930.

See:

  1. Harry R. Hall et  C. Leonard Woolley, Ur Excavations, vol. I (Al-‘Ubaid), Oxford 1927
  2. Pinhas Delougaz, "A Short Investigation of the Temple at Al-‘Ubaid", Iraq 3 (1938), pp. 1-11.
  3. https://www.cemml.colostate.edu/cultural/09476/iraq05-073.html
  4. Jean Louis Huot, hasło Ubaid, w: Eric M. Meyers (wyd.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East, vol. V, Oxford University Press, New York - Oxford 1997, pp.. 251-252.

Nearby

Tall al-Ubajd [Ubaid]

Necropolis of Ubaid

Ur [Urim], West Harbour (6 km)

W harbour of Ur. Chaldeans Ur.


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