Ubaid period
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The Ubaid period is a prehistoric period of Mesopotamia. The name derives from Tell al-'Ubaid where the earliest large excavation of Ubaid period material was conducted initially by Henry Hall in 1919
Late Ubaid; figurine of a lizard-headed nude woman nursing a child; terracotta and bitumen; c. 4000 BC; Iraq Museum
Figurine of a woman; clay; c. 5200 – c. 4200 BC; Tell el-Muqayyar
Ophidian figurines of women from Ur (Ubaid 4)
Ubaid IV; two figurines of women; c. 4700 – c. 4200 BC; Tell Tello; Louvre Museum AO 15327
Uruk period
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The Uruk period is a period of the protohistoric Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age in Mesopotamia and the ancient Near East. It follows the Ubaid period and precedes the Jemdet Nasr period. In the broa
Ubaid period
…habitation has likely been obscured under the alluvium. In the south the Ubaid period spans from about 5500 to 3800 BC, when it is succeeded by the Uruk period. In Northern Mesopotamia the period runs only from about 5300 to 4300 BC. It is preceded by the Halaf period and the Halaf-Ubaid Transitional period…
Fragment of a bowl with a frieze of bulls in relief, ca. 3300–2900 B.C. Late Uruk–Jemdet Nasr periods. Southern Mesopotamia
'Eye idols' from Tell Brak. British Museum.
Beveled rim bowl from Kuyunjik/Nineveh. British Museum.
Cylinder seal and impression: cattle herd at the cowshed. White limestone, Mesopotamia, Uruk period (4100 BC – 3000 BC).