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 circular seal, Late Ubaid-Mid Gawra, Date 5th4th millennium B.C., Northern Syria or northern Mesopotamia, Chlorite, black, Diameter: 4.27 cm, Height: 0.97 cm, String Hole: 0.4 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.
EditorialCarinated half-almond seal, Ubaid-Middle Gawra (?), Date 4th millennium B.C. (?), Northern Syria or northern Mesopotamia, Chlorite, black, Seal Face: 3.49 x 2.11 cm, Height: 1.12 cm, String Hole: 0.35 cm, Stone-Stamp Seals.
EditorialMesopotamia. Early Dynastic Period. Statue of Kurlil. Found next to the Temple of Ninhursag in Tell al-Ubaid. Southern Iraq. 2500 BC. British Museum. London. England. United Kingdom.
EditorialMesopotamia. Early Dynastic Period. Statue of Kurlil. Found next to the Temple of Ninhursag in Tell al-Ubaid. Southern Iraq. 2500 BC. British Museum. London. England. United Kingdom.
EditorialMesopotamia. Early Dynastic Period. Statue of Kurlil. Found next to the Temple of Ninhursag in Tell al-Ubaid. Southern Iraq. 2500 BC. British Museum. London. England. United Kingdom.
EditorialPage from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): Forty-second night: The marriage of ?Ubaid, son of a merchant of Tirmiz, c. 1560. India, Mughal, Reign of Akbar, 16th century. Opaque watercolor, ink and gold on paper.
EditorialPage from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): Forty-second night: The merchant of Tirmiz takes the wise parrot and myna to ?Ubaid, c. 1560. India, Mughal, Reign of Akbar, 16th century. Opaque watercolor, ink and gold on paper;.
EditorialPage from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): Forty-second night: Repenting his conduct, ?Ubaid falls at the feet of his parents, c. 1560. India, Mughal, Reign of Akbar, 16th century. Opaque watercolor, ink and gold on paper.
EditorialBowl, Ubaid, mid 6th?5th millennium B.C., Mesopotamia, Eridu (modern Abu Shahrein), Ubaid, Ceramic, 2 in. (5.08 cm), Ceramics-Vessels, The most common type of vessel excavated from graves of the Late Ubaid period at the southern Mesopotamian site of Er...
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...
EditorialJar with a frieze of bulls, Iron Age III, ca. 8th?7th century B.C., Iran, said to be from Ziwiye, Iran, Glazed ceramic, H. 43.5 cm, Ceramics-Vessels, Glazing and glassmaking have a long history in the ancient Near East. A glaze is a layer of glass over...
EditorialMesopotamia. Early Dynastic Period. Statue of Kurlil. Found next to the Temple of Ninhursag in Tell al-Ubaid. Southern Iraq. 2500 BC. British Museum. London. England. United Kingdom.
EditorialStamp seal from Tepe Gaura, Ubaid culture. A headless figure in a long robe holds his arms outstretched above a goat-like animal. Terracotta, 3,2 cm across. DAO 7.
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...
EditorialStone statue of Kurlil, responsible for building work on the temple of Ninhursag, Tel al-Ubaid, southern Iraq. A sign in cuneiform on the right shoulder of this statue forms part of Kurlil's name. The statue is typical of figurines set up in a temple t...