Tell al-Ubajd, Ninhursag Temple

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Surroundings:

EUAS-72_Anonymous settlement_Map site_Wright (1966), in ADAMS (1981), p. 337 (fig 26)

IRAQ_Lower Euphrates_1968_Diqdiqah (EUAS-11 & 12)

Location:

Iraq, ‘Abd Āl Washīḩ
geo:30.972261,46.030636
Location ± 5-25 m.

Period or year:

-2500~ / unknown

Class:

Temple or sanctuary
visible

Identifiers:

vici:place=41294

Annotations

The Early Dynastic temple of Ninhursag, Sumerian mother goddess. It was built of plano-convex mud bricks.

See:

http://www.starozytnysumer.pl/podstrony/podstrony_poziom_1/tell_al-ubajd.html [polish]
https://www.cemml.colostate.edu/cultural/09476/iraq05-073.html
Pinhas Delougaz, "A Short Investigation of the Temple at Al-‘Ubaid", Iraq 5 (1938), pp. 1-11.

Nearby

Tall al-Ubajd [Ubaid]

Necropolis of Ubaid

Tall al-Ubajd [Ubaid] (EUAS-8)

Eridu, Haji Muhammad, Early & late Ubaid, Uruk, Jemdet Nasr, Early Dynastic I & III, and Ur III periods settlement. The Ubaid period is named after this site. Excavated by Hall and Wooley.

Anonymous site (EUAS-74) (1 km)

Very small mound, visible on Corona imagery (1968), since destroyed by cultivation. Bricks and green glazed sherd collected by T. Wright (1966), though undated.