EditorialCarinated lentoid seal, Late Ubaid-Middle Gawra, Date ca. 45003600 B.C., Northern Syria or eastern Anatolia, Chlorite, black, Seal face: 3.36 x 3.0 cm, Height: 0.75, String Hole: 0.3 cm, Stone-Stamp Seals.
EditorialLoop-handled rectangular stamping device, Ubaid-Early Gawra, Date 5th4th millennium B.C., Northern Syria or northern Mesopotamia, Chlorite or steatite, black, Seal Face: 2.81 x 1.4 cm, Height: 1.31 cm, String Hole: 0.3 cm, Stone-Stamp Seals.
EditorialCarinated lentoid seal, Late Ubaid-Middle Gawra, Date 5th4th millennium B.C., Eastern Anatolia, Chlorite or steatite, black, Diameter: 2.97 cm, Height: 0.75 cm, String Hole: 0.4 cm, Stone-Stamp Seals.
EditorialDrop-shaped (tanged) pendant seal and modern impression: quadrupeds, Late Ubaid?Middle Gawra, ca. 4500?3500 B.C., Northern Mesopotamia, Black-green chlorite or steatite, Seal Face: 1.8 x 1.7 cm, Stone-Stamp Seals, This Ubaid seal is typically decorated...
EditorialStamp seal and modern impression: horned animal and bird, Ubaid, 6th?5th millennium B.C., Syria or Anatolia, Steatite or chlorite, 0.2 x 0.8 x 0.84 in. (0.51 x 2.03 x 2.13 cm), Stone-Stamp Seals, The impressing of carved stones into clay to seal contai...
EditorialBowl, Ubaid, mid 6th?5th millennium B.C., Mesopotamia, Eridu (modern Abu Shahrein), Ubaid, Ceramic, H. 5.7 x Diam. 24 cm (2 1/4 x 9 1/2 in.), Ceramics-Vessels, This dish is decorated with a dark brownish paint in three concentric rings. The band around...
EditorialStamp seal and modern impression: quadruped, Ubaid-Middle Gawra, ca. 4500?3500 B.C., Northern Syria or eastern Anatolia, Chlorite, black, Seal face: 3.16 x 2.96 cm, Stone-Stamp Seals, This seal depitcs a quadruped with an elongated body faceing left. A...
EditorialPainted bowl, Sialk III period, around 4.000 BCE. Abstract ornaments and a human figure with bird-like head. The Sialk period is contemporry with th Ubaid and Uruk cultures of mesopotamia to the west. Excavated by E. Herzfield at Tall-i Bakun, southern...
EditorialLion's head from the temple of Ninhursag, a mother goddess " lady of the steppe land", Tell al-Ubaid near Ur, southern Iraq 2600-2400 BCE. The head, made of sheet copper over a bitumen core was found at the foot of a brick platform of the for...